do i need a new card

[2gigs]

i have a x800xl, and i wanna pick up a new card and sell the one i have, when would be the best time/what would be the best new card


i hate ati as of now, but ill deal with em if it means more freformance to price ratio

 

[Project_2501]

7800GT from EVGA or BFG.

Time frame? ASAP I suppose.

 

[CleanSlate]

What settings do you want to play at and what do you want to spend on it?

~Adam

 

[morningreis]

6800 GS for $200 or 7800 GT for $300.

There two cards are the best bang for buck out on the market right now. a 7800 GT will blow away an X800XL.

If you are restricked to AGP only, the 6800 GS will be out relatively soon for AGP since the new 81.98 drivers have support for it.

 

[2gigs]

uum, i play all max 1280x1024 all high on bf2




also, i have dual monitors, and its pcie

 

[Indolentron]

6800GS isn't much of a step up from X800XL is it?

Personally, I'd wait a little bit unless you have the budget for a top-end card.

 

[2gigs]

i do, i have 400 now

 

[dderidex]

If you already HAVE an X800XL....why do you "hate ATI"? Might be something that's fixable...

 

[2gigs]

temps and the fact that this card wont o/c for shit due to no power connector

 

[V99]

Well if you have $400...Just buy a 7800GT then.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130247

Hopefully you can sell your current card for anything over $100 and then well the 7800GT only costs you $200.

 

[2gigs]

yeah, whgat is a x800xl worth

 

[—§urfÅceЗ]

X800XLs are going for $120+ on ebay w/ accessories...

 

[dderidex]

temps and the fact that this card wont o/c for shit due to no power connector

Well, obviously, temps don't matter - if it's stable, it's stable, doesn't matter what the temp is.

As to overclocking - doesn't actually have anything to do with the lack of a power connector, the "problem" with the X800XLs is that they are not using a low-k process in manufacturing the cards. They are very fast at a very reasonable price...but you can't get much more out of them. And although it's not low-k, it's still an .11u process used in the card vs the .13u used in the rest of the X800-series cards, which is why it doesn't need a power connector - much smaller die, takes less power to do the same thing, ergo the 75w the PCI-E slot can supply is plenty for the card.

And that doesn't really explain why you'd "hate ATI" for one single card model not designed to be an overclocking beast. I swap back and forth from nVidia to ATI pretty regularly, and ATI certainly has some very attractive features. 6x multisample anti-aliasing and temporal ant-aliasing are both features that can improve the picture quality TREMENDOUSLY, that no nVidia card has anything like.

yeah, whgat is a x800xl worth

In any case, to answer this question - the going rate appears to be $150 - $180 right now (on eBay and the [H] or Anandtech FS/T forums).