What card should I choose?

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I have $400, so I am planning to upgrade my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, should I upgrade? what card should I buy? ATI or nVidia?, for general gaming not only doom 3
Any suggestions..........................

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HTPOWER said:
I have $400, so I am planning to upgrade my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, should I upgrade? what card should I buy? ATI or nVidia?, for general gaming not only doom 3
Any suggestions..........................

:confused:
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If you're going to upgrade, get a 6800GT.

However, a 9800 Pro isnt bad. However, if you're a Doom3 fan or just need to be more cutting edge a 6800GT should be the ticket.

If you have an older system, you may be CPU bottlenecked and the 6800GT may not give you that much more performance.

Mostly you can turn up the eyecandy, AA & AF.
 
My setup

P4 2.8C, GEIL 1 GB DDR RAM PC3200, INTEL 865PERLL BOARD, 1 WD 160GB CAVIAR HD, SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY 2, ETC.

would I get any better performance???
 
can't do it, my board is INTEL................. anyway, I was checking and it seems that 6800GT is better only for doom 3 and X800PRO for everything else..
 
I think with newer Intel mobo's they have a "burn-in" mode that you can enable through the BIOS. It only gives you like a 4% overclock, but its better than nothing and should be a gimme. (auto & easy, no tweaking)

Well then get an X800 Pro if thats what your research points you to.

It really depends on what games you play.

I gave you my opinion... (6800GT).... if you already know what you're going to buy with your $400 why ask for input then shoot it down.
 
jthunt said:
Sounds like you already made up your mind.
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Agreed, why bother asking?

Today the 6800GT is the best card for the $$, period. It's your money, do what you want.
 
I got a great deal on my GT (CompUSA mistake) but I would go with an ATI if I had to do it all over again.

If you are interested in OCing your video card / AND / you don't mind the risk of trying to unlock the pipes in the X800 then I would go with a VIVO X800 Pro.

If you are solely interested in gaming at stock speeds then I would use the GT.

Just my .02
 
HTPOWER said:
for all future games what would be better??
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It's really hard to say without those "future games" to test right now but with a GT you should be fine with any games based on the Doom 3 engine. (there are several coming down the pipe)
 
the x800 can be good, if its VIVO and modded to 16 pipelines. (remember its the old chipset just upgraded)

the 6800GT overclocks very easily and performs great, has SM3.0 support for future gaming (brand new chipset, driver updates will come and help out tremendously).

Your call.
 
theNoid said:
the x800 can be good, if its VIVO and modded to 16 pipelines. (remember its the old chipset just upgraded)

the 6800GT overclocks very easily and performs great, has SM3.0 support for future gaming (brand new chipset, driver updates will come and help out tremendously).

Your call.
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X800 Pro ---> X800 XT = too risky, not guaranteed, and could cause permanent artifacts on the card

6800GT ---> 6800 Ultra = no risk, just coolbits and overclock almost guaranteed to hit Ultra speeds, in fact I dont think I've seen anyone that cant hit Ultra speeds. (maybe one person at 390/1100, but thats close enough)

P.S. Chipsets are for motherboards. GPU cores, architectures for videocards. Nv has a new architecture in their core which should have more future potential. Where ATI's cards are just the same old technology basically doubled in count/size (pipelines)
 
chrisf6969 said:
X800 Pro ---> X800 XT = too risky, not guaranteed, and could cause permanent artifacts on the card

6800GT ---> 6800 Ultra = no risk, just coolbits and overclock almost guaranteed to hit Ultra speeds, in fact I dont think I've seen anyone that cant hit Ultra speeds. (maybe one person at 390/1100, but thats close enough)

P.S. Chipsets are for motherboards. GPU cores, architectures for videocards. Nv has a new architecture in their core which should have more future potential. Where ATI's cards are just the same old technology basically doubled in count/size (pipelines)
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I agree. I would just get the 6800GT to be safe.
 
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