For you AGP Hold outs

Sorry, but I gotta ask... In MY situation, should I upgrade?

I currently have a P4 3.0GHz OCed to 3.3GHz, 2 GB RAM, a OCed/SoftModded GeForce 6800 (128mb), dual screen Dell 2407/Sony 17" LCD running Vista. I use it to watch divx/xvid vids at 1920x1200 on the dell, along with some gaming (Guild Wars, UT 2004, HL2, etc). I am not sure if its a drivers issue with Vista, but I could use some help in the video playback area, especially when multi-tasking. I can get an average fps of 40 at 1920x1200 in Guild Wars, but it could be better... again, I am not sure if its the drivers or my card. For the other games, I want to get a decent fps on the dell screen, running it as close to native res as possible (I know its not possible at native res with my setup, something better than 1280x1024). I want to upgrade this computer enough so it will last me another year, and then I will probably build a new one...

Should I upgrade the vid card?

BTW: I got a 3dMarks score of 11990 at 1024x786 when I was running XP with this system. I haven't tested it with Vista.
 
how do your frames compare in Vista vs. XP?

I would gamble that your losing ~ 5 - 10 FPS just by running vista. That's been my exp anyway.

From a straight vanilla 6800 to a 7600GT....

For the money ? prolly not....unless you just have to have the faster card and don't have money to upgrade your system, in your case needing that high of a res I would probably think about upgrading your computer.

Aside: Your one of the guys I don't understand. Unless you bought that 2407 without knowing that native res LCD requirement.......Why have older hardware, but buy an LCD that requires the latest and greatest of everything in order to play your games? (native res) You forced yourself into a constant upgrade pattern and put a big hole in your pocket. That as I've mentioned is the main reason I've never gone LCD, I like the way they look, but I don't want forced to one resolution(especially 19xx x xxxx), where I have no flexibility on whether the graphics options can be all set to high or must be set to medium/low in order to play the game at a decent Framerate. Games look much better with all options turned on and a lower resolution than they do at uber resolutions with options turned down. I'm done beating that point into the ground now. :)

At any rate - go to tomshardware ---- look at their graphics comparison articles and see if you think that upgrade is worth your money. That one is going to boil down to personal choice. If you had a 6800GT I'd say no, but with a vanilla 6800 and your graphics requirements? It's gonna be your call. Me peronally, I'd prolly wait until the 8x series AGP card release and still keep your p4 setup and 2gb of ram.
 
people said that about the 7 series too.

There is enough of a desire for AGP cards that there will be an AGP 8 series card from nvidia.

AGP 4x is about the same speed as AGP 8x is about the same speed as PCI-E. There really is no reason that they can't make a Nvidia 8x series card for AGP and they'd be fools not to, cause they'd limit their market.
 
Eldest_One said:
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considering the fact that its preety much sold out or on back order
unless you wanna spend 40- 50 bucks extra than you should at best buy
 
Shafted! said:
is that a racial dig at him?
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Lol maybe but it applies to me too. Well no I would never call someone a noob for no reason and spell it n00b, except if I was making fun of people who do that. And people who do that play a lot of starcraft. It's the batleground where you earn the right to say "noob" to other people and make yourself feel better that you can beat someone at something, and then its hard for some people to stop being douchebags outside of the game. Just something I've noticed :D
 
ummm, its an agp card. its an ok deal. i saw a x1950 once on newegg a couple days ago. it was 280 i think. If you have a good deal to post, this is the place. There are other sub-forums for the current trend of this conversation.
 
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