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StealthyFish

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Hey, I've got an X800 128mb DDR1 clocked at 430//740 mhz. Is it worth it for me to upgrade to an XFX 6800XT Xtreme? And btw, do any of you guys know where I can see benchmarks and stuff for the XFX 6800XT Xtreme?
 
I would avoid the "XT" 6800. Im not even sure if it would be an upgrade from your card. It is an 8 pipe version of the 6800 (even slower than the NU). the only thing extreme about it is when you get it, bench it, and realize that an overclocked 6600gt is more powerful.

edit: I would go with a 7600gt or x850xt if you are looking to stay around $150. If you can make it up to $200, there is the x1800gto.
 
lloose said:
I would avoid the "XT" 6800. Im not even sure if it would be an upgrade from your card. It is an 8 pipe version of the 6800 (even slower than the NU). the only thing extreme about it is when you get it, bench it, and realize that an overclocked 6600gt is more powerful.

edit: I would go with a 7600gt or x850xt if you are looking to stay around $150. If you can make it up to $200, there is the x1800gto.
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lloose said:
I would avoid the "XT" 6800. Im not even sure if it would be an upgrade from your card. It is an 8 pipe version of the 6800 (even slower than the NU). the only thing extreme about it is when you get it, bench it, and realize that an overclocked 6600gt is more powerful.

edit: I would go with a 7600gt or x850xt if you are looking to stay around $150. If you can make it up to $200, there is the x1800gto.
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hmm... i was searchin around on the net and found one review. looked okay, better than a 6600GT, but worse than a 6800 vanilla (at stock). Looking at the newegg reviews, seems to overclock consistantly to 480//1300, and some people say that they've unlocked 4 extra pipes. Would that be better than my X800 by a lot? I'm asking about this card since it's like 134, but $99 after a rebate at newegg =)
 
StealthyFish said:
hmm... i was searchin around on the net and found one review. looked okay, better than a 6600GT, but worse than a 6800 vanilla (at stock). Looking at the newegg reviews, seems to overclock consistantly to 480//1300, and some people say that they've unlocked 4 extra pipes. Would that be better than my X800 by a lot? I'm asking about this card since it's like 134, but $99 after a rebate at newegg =)
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And its always a bad idea to base your purchase on the CHANCE that it will do something.. every card is different.

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=48&card2=178

Look there.. Even IF you could get it to NU speeds, your x800 would still beat that card, stock.. But w/e.. if you want to spend $100 on a card that is a downgrade from yours, be my guest.
 
hmm.. wait, what? this card would do worse than my X800?
btw, the card should be PCIe, not AGp =) i'm not sure, i bought the cheapened down version of the X800. My card is 256bit 128mb GDDR1. The 6800 XT Xtreme from XFX seems to do a little better than the normal 6800XTs cause i think XFX sticks better ram on it or something. It's got a gig of GDDR3 instead of GDDR1
 
yea, i'm thinking of getting 2x 512mb OCZ Gold Series PC2-5300 =) take this GeIL out and put it in my bro's system
 
Do the comparison for the x800 pci-e that you have and the 6800NU. The nu is more powerful than the xt and the x800 that you are talking about beats out an nu and can come close if not beat 6800gt's with the right core and a bit of overclocking.

Go with the ram.. more ram is always nice.
 
Yep. You will be spending $100 on a side step, not an upgrade. Even if you could unlock it and overclock it and etc, the improvement wouldn't be nearly as significant as a RAM upgrade would be. If I were you I'd buy the OCZ memory and leave 1.5Gigs in your machine. Then save up some dough to buy a x1900gt before the end of the year.
 
yea, I guess I'll do that. I'm just completely offing this system when i get enough for conroe anyway, so I'll just OC this X800 (got it to 450//810 before artifacts) and maybe a better cooler for it? RAM will do me good =)
 
StealthyFish said:
yea, I guess I'll do that. I'm just completely offing this system when i get enough for conroe anyway, so I'll just OC this X800 (got it to 450//810 before artifacts) and maybe a better cooler for it? RAM will do me good =)
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In general, better coolers on video cards are only worth it if you are aiming for silence. I've only gotten 5% gains in my overclocks when I added aftermarket cooling to two of my video cards in the past. YMMV.
 
StealthyFish said:
hmm.. wait, what? this card would do worse than my X800?
btw, the card should be PCIe, not AGp =) i'm not sure, i bought the cheapened down version of the X800. My card is 256bit 128mb GDDR1. The 6800 XT Xtreme from XFX seems to do a little better than the normal 6800XTs cause i think XFX sticks better ram on it or something. It's got a gig of GDDR3 instead of GDDR1
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show me a link to the 6800 video card with "a gig of GDDR3". i have never seen a video card with more than 512mb.
 
lol, sry, my fault. i meant 1ghz RAM frequency. got tired and started typing random shit, lol. it's 256mb GDDR3 card
 
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