I am waiting for nothing?

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zeekle

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hey everybody I have been lurking on the forums for a bit and I would like to hear what people are thinking about my upgrade plans.

right now I am running an AMD 754 3200+ agp 6800gt 1680X1050 LCD monitor.

My video card budget is 400 bucks at most.

Around spring I started putting some money away for a complete rebuild expecting to build around later summer. Conroe got announced and it sounded just too good to buy before it came out (regardless of what platform I bought) so I pushed my upgrade back.

I hate buying on the backend of a generation of Video cards (bought my 6800GT on release day) but as of right now I am not seeing anything coming in the next 6 weeks to warrent waiting for (besides more conroe motherboard choices) I really dont want till January for an upgrade. Am I missing something?

Right now my current rig is running everything I have and not much new seems to be coming till october that I dont think my current system wont run.
 
As hard as it seems I would reccomend waiting awhile longer, possibly even for later than DX10 cards to come out so they get all the bugs out.
 
With technology, there is always going to be something right around the corner. But, if you get into that way of thinking, there is never a good time to buy. Something is always coming up soon. I think you are pretty clear right now. IMO a vid card is the easiest of components to plan for because i just focus on the games. What do you play now? Will the propective vid card play that well now and do you think you will be playing that game for a while still? And what new games are you looking forward to and what are their release dates?

For me, BF2. A x1900xt will kick some ass on BF2. I will probably still be playing BF2 a year from now. Looking forward to crysis, quake wars, and BF2142. Still have a while before all 3 are out. x1900xt will still be able to kick some ass on all of those. x1900xt ftw.

So yes, i think you are waiting for nothing. And don't forget, you can always just sell whatever you get now if a new card comes out you absolutely must upgrade too.
 
pigpen i notice you have a FW900, what resolution and settings are you running battlefield 2 on.

i ask because i aam getting a 1920*1200 monitor with a 1900XT soon, and was wondering whether i should get a single 7950 or a 1900XT.

in your opinion, do you think i should stump up th extra cash and get a 7950?
 
Wait for x1950, even if it sucks.. it might lower the price of the 7950GX2 so still worth waiting.... But 7950 will probably still offer better performance... x1950 is just x1900 with faster memory.

do you think i should stump up th extra cash and get a 7950?
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Yes, unless you can wait for the same reason above..
 
You really can't go wrong with a 7900GT or X1900XT at those resolutions. You can always go Conroe and run crossfire on a 975 chipset or get a SLI board to match up with a 7900GT. That should hold you for a good year.
 
I dont want to wait till 2007 for a new computer thats for sure. I really just want to get out of AGP. I miss the days of being able to upgrade a video card at one point and then later go with a CPU/mboard (not so much sticker shock doing that)

I am not playing anything right now. I am buying a computer to in antcipation of games coming out this fall. I play all sorts of games from FPS to RTS to MMORPGs.

well I am for sure most likely going to be waiting for a couple of weeks just because I have settled for a core 2 duo 6600 as my CPU and those right now are kinda hard to find. I am not going to buy anything till one of those is sitting on my desk. I am hoping the minor refreshes from ATI are out by then to at least see what I can buy.

Right now I am just trying to firm up what to buy (video card wise) and its sounding like I should go ahead and buy pretty soon or wait till

Earlier in the summer I thought the DX10 cards would be out in September and that was when I was planning my upgrade. Since Vista go pushed back I guess they pushed them back as well.
 
zeekle said:
I dont want to wait till 2007 for a new computer thats for sure. I really just want to get out of AGP. I miss the days of being able to upgrade a video card at one point and then later go with a CPU/mboard (not so much sticker shock doing that)
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I was in the same boat back in January - I bought a PCIe 754 board for my 2800+ (last month I moved to a Venice 3400+). 3200+ is enough CPU power, just grab yourself a cheap board with PCIe if you want to do a video card upgrade first.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813170011

Albatron :eek: $27 shipped after rebate - nforce4-4x board


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813138273

Biostar NF4-4x board - $42 AR
 
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