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128mb or 256mb?

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Is the time coming where we will actually need 256mb? I'm debatign whether I should get a 6800 which will serve me finely or a 6800GT which is a large cost increase when I don't need it.
 
256 if you play high resolution, 256 if you want to be safe, 256 if you want to be smart.

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yes the extra 128 will be needed soon.
 
Omg, frankly I am am a bit tired of people buying these stupid GT's. Yes they are nice cards with excellent value, but come on people. The GT is basically the 9600Xt of ATI's old lineup. Its the X800 Pro, is the Radeon 9500 Pro, its a MID RANGED VALUE CARD! You people value it like it is the dominant king of the hill or something. Well yes its gotten very good benchmark scores, but how do you think its going to prefrom a year down the road when the fact that it is a value card will be shoved in your faces like a 5lb. Steak.

Treat the GT like a value solution and not THE SOLUTION.
 
Burke888 said:
Omg, frankly I am am a bit tired of people buying these stupid GT's. Yes they are nice cards with excellent value, but come on people. The GT is basically the 9600Xt of ATI's old lineup. Its the X800 Pro, is the Radeon 9500 Pro, its a MID RANGED VALUE CARD! You people value it like it is the dominant king of the hill or something. Well yes its gotten very good benchmark scores, but how do you think its going to prefrom a year down the road when the fact that it is a value card will be shoved in your faces like a 5lb. Steak.

Treat the GT like a value solution and not THE SOLUTION.
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lol then why does the GT come within 5% of the high end Ultra in nearly all benchmarks? It is more than mid-range value for mid range price that is why it is such a good card.
 
Burke888 said:
Omg, frankly I am am a bit tired of people buying these stupid GT's. Yes they are nice cards with excellent value, but come on people. The GT is basically the 9600Xt of ATI's old lineup. Its the X800 Pro, is the Radeon 9500 Pro, its a MID RANGED VALUE CARD! You people value it like it is the dominant king of the hill or something. Well yes its gotten very good benchmark scores, but how do you think its going to prefrom a year down the road when the fact that it is a value card will be shoved in your faces like a 5lb. Steak.

Treat the GT like a value solution and not THE SOLUTION.
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Considering the 6800GT uses identical architecture and pipeline configuration to the top of the line 6800U, and can be overclocked to & past 6800U or near-6800U speeds with ease using a simple OC util and no modding whatsoever, it does make it "the solution." Only real benefit of going to the 6800U is for dual dvi and a higher overclock for those who want the most extreme performance. In my book the 6800GT is just as good as the 6800U, its a high end solution, not midrange. The x800pro by your comparison, otoh, isnt due to it having only 12 pipes.
 
Just becase its the midranged price card doesnt make it the budget card. And as far as how a 6800GT will be doing a year from now? Probably about the same as a 9800Pro was doing back when it had hit its one year mark. Just fine. All harware, no matter how good, is phased out. Thats the way it works. If oyu buy hardware thinking of how good it will be years down the roads, thats stupid, thats the point of upgrading.


Now to the topic at hand. I would reccoment 256MB. For the longest time, it has almost been 256MB is never needed, no point in getting it yadda yadda yadda. And it was true, up until this week there was no game that required more than 128MB of ram. Then Doom3 came, and to get completly uncompressed textures, tehre calling for a 512MB card! Bottem line is, if Doom3 is any kind of forshadow for otehr games coming out this year, get 256MB card, unless you plan on upgrading again shortly, the 6800GT is your answer
 
Burke888 said:
Omg, frankly I am am a bit tired of people buying these stupid GT's. Yes they are nice cards with excellent value, but come on people. The GT is basically the 9600Xt of ATI's old lineup. Its the X800 Pro, is the Radeon 9500 Pro, its a MID RANGED VALUE CARD! You people value it like it is the dominant king of the hill or something. Well yes its gotten very good benchmark scores, but how do you think its going to prefrom a year down the road when the fact that it is a value card will be shoved in your faces like a 5lb. Steak.

Treat the GT like a value solution and not THE SOLUTION.
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The other cards you mentioned all have fewer pipelines and lower clockspeeds than their high end counterparts. The GT IS NOT CRIPPLED IN ANY WAY. You can easily close the gap between it and the Ultra with overclocking alone, and not trying some flakey pipeline mod that will probably leave you with artifacts all over your picture.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather buy a GT and save the leftover wad of money to buy more games :eek:
 
Do I only need 256mb if I'm going to run like 1280x1024 or 1600x 1200 on games like Doom 3?

And if so what are the performance gains going to be, more than 5%?
 
just less hiccups when you change rooms and the poccibility of running it at ultra quality.. wich i can not tell the difference between it and high... 128 m works fine on high..at 1280...on a 5900 non ultra moded to be a 5950 i rarely get hiccups on these settings as well as 8x af
 
Burke888 said:
Omg, frankly I am am a bit tired of people buying these stupid GT's. Yes they are nice cards with excellent value, but come on people. The GT is basically the 9600Xt of ATI's old lineup. Its the X800 Pro, is the Radeon 9500 Pro, its a MID RANGED VALUE CARD! You people value it like it is the dominant king of the hill or something. Well yes its gotten very good benchmark scores, but how do you think its going to prefrom a year down the road when the fact that it is a value card will be shoved in your faces like a 5lb. Steak.

Treat the GT like a value solution and not THE SOLUTION.
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This is just plain silly...if you haven't noticed the Ultra and XTPE aren't exactly available in large numbers...and if you haven't noticed...the GT keeps up just fine with its older brother and almost every GT will overclock straight to 1100/400 (Ultra clocks)...

Silly...
 
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