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Upgrading and need some advice

Setzer777

Setzer777

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Looking at upgrading my MSI 5900XT card and need some advice. Trying to do this w/o having to buy a whole new MB & CPU as I don't have the funds to do a complete overhaul at the moment. Which means, I'm looking to upgrade my video card and still go with AGP. My CPU is an AMD 64 3400 and my MB is a DFI LP nf3 250. I'm looking at the following 4 cards and would like to get your opinions on which would be the best one to get....

eVGA 256-A8-N344-AX Geforce 6800GT 256MB - $304

GIGABYTE Radeon X800XL GV-R80L256V - $259

ASUS Radeon X800PRO - $239

MSI Geforce 6600GT NX6600GT-VTD128 - $186 -$30 MIR

I could spend the $300 and get the 6800 but is it worth that sort of investment when I may be upgrading within the next year to a board with PCI-X? I've heard some good things about the Radeon X800PRO and being able to flash it to an XL card but its about $100 more than the 6600GT card. Don't both those cards perform about the same, just the X800 has VIVO? Anyways, I'd appreciate any advice you all can give.
 
I would go with the x800xl hands down best bang for the buck of the 3. Wish I could of found 2 myself cheap to run in SLI. :D
 
You really can not go wrong with the X800XL, but if you want to upgrade for the minimum, check out the X800 PRO from ATI for $179.00 with a 3 year warranty.
 
That's a nice deal on the x800 pro! How big a difference is there between the x800 pro and the x800 xl? Is it worth $80 more for the xl card?
 
That x800 refurb deal that ati is putting up is a killer deal.. I would go with that. If you want a little more bang, go with the x800xl. IMHO, I dont think its worth the extra $100 for the performance you would get out of an XL model in this case.
 
If u really need HDR and SM3 then the 6800gt o/c have lowered theyr prices.
But I would wait till august, ATI's new card might lauch then.
 
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