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USMC2Hard4U

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I dont have a set amount of money i want to spend, but not too much.

I was wondering. Should I upgrade to a X800XT? or should i save up and get a new LGA775 board w/ PCI express and stuff?

Is my system still good for a year if I go ahead and grab the X800 XT now?
 
Your system is good for a year if you DON'T get a new video card. Save your money.
 
I'll second that, your computer is fine the way it is, I think it would last a year no problem. And in a year both the board you want and that video card should of dropped in price somewhat, maybe even significantly if ATI comes out with something else.... Thats just my two cents
 
I would wait and get one of the new nVidia 6800 Ultra's if your wanting one of the new cards. It supports some new features that the ATI card does not. The ATI card is just a speed boost and nothing more. The nVidia supports pixel shader and vertex shader 3.0 amongst other things. Their both very fast though. But i think the nVidia card is more "future-proof".
 
burningrave101 said:
I would wait and get one of the new nVidia 6800 Ultra's if your wanting one of the new cards. It supports some new features that the ATI card does not. The ATI card is just a speed boost and nothing more. The nVidia supports pixel shader and vertex shader 3.0 amongst other things. Their both very fast though. But i think the nVidia card is more "future-proof".
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I was thinking this as well however, I dunno about the power issue. My powersupply seems to be dying i think (all my rails are low as hell) but it just might be my mobo.....

I dont want to have to get a Brand new PSU aswell....
 
USMC2Hard4U said:
I was thinking this as well however, I dunno about the power issue. My powersupply seems to be dying i think (all my rails are low as hell) but it just might be my mobo.....

I dont want to have to get a Brand new PSU aswell....
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MaximumPC ran tests using several different PSU's and the nVidia 6800 ultra to see just how much power it really needed and they used two PC Power and Cooling PSUs, 510w and 410w, a Sparkle 400w, a Generic 400w, and a SFF 250w i believe it was. The generic and SFF PSU caused the system to crash when they fired up an intensive 3d application. The other three performed without any problems at all.

I havn't decided yet what i'm going to do but i'm looking strongly at a 6800 GT or Ultra because of the support for 32-bit floating-point and pixel shader 3.0 along with the fact i just plain prefer nVidia over ATI :p.
 
If you're unhappy about your system then:

Buy a new PSU. Then save up and buy a PCI-E motherboard along with a PCI-E graphics card.
 
vanquished said:
If you're unhappy about your system then:

Buy a new PSU. Then save up and buy a PCI-E motherboard along with a PCI-E graphics card.
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I dont think i would buy a new CPU/Mobo right now. Intel is coming out with their new dual core processors in early 2005 and they will definitely be worth upgradeing to. Their based more on their Pentium M chips and wont have the heat issues like Prescott did. Dual core chips will be hard to beat by anything less.
 
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