I FINALLY took the plunge!

[beedubaya]

I finally took the plunge and ordered an eVGA AGP 6800 GT from newegg. With Nvidia dominating the gaming market, I could just no longer afford not to have an Nvidia card, plus, this will probably save me another year or two without having to build a new PC.

 

[Hefemeister]

nice move. Especially after all of your ranting about ati ;-)previously I had the ati 9800pro. Now it worked pretty good but nvidia's dominance was too great to ignore. Just purchased a 7800gtx from new egg today. Should be her friday. Is it friday yet?

ps built a whole new system as well.

 

[uzi9mm]

hahaha, nice move. Im taking a "semi" plunge in a week or two.......

 

[beedubaya]

Yeah, the X800 Pro was fine for what it did....Half Life 2, Far Cry, and BF2 after ATI did some driver fixes, but with Nvidia's dominance and several Doom 3 engine titles comming out soon, plus the fact that 6800 GTs are so cheap and everybody loves them, i just couldn't pass this up.

 

[U-Toast]

WOOT, fianlly! no more "why am i getting 10 fps in doom3?" hehe
Cant wait to see how it runs man. Let us know.

 

[Mr. Switch]

Good Call. You'll be able to play CoD 2 correctly along with pretty much everything else. Your X800 was giving you so much BS, you really made a good move to do something about it. like i said, good call.

 

[Nubius]

I thought you were going to wait and save up a bit for the 7800GTX or something? It would only been a couple more paychecks but either way you should notice a nice performance increase in games, especially if you overclock it Ultra speeds which theres absolutely no reason why you shouldn't!!

Not overclocking to ultra speeds will not be forgiven

 

[beedubaya]

Well I would have had to pretty much buy a whole new system in order to get the 7800GTX, because of the AGP/PCI-E issue, and being as my PC was my graduation present, I am not ready to trash it right away, and a 6800 GT will last me quite some time. Its not that the X800 Pro is a bad card in itself, its just the drivers suck and no games are being developed with ATI cards in mind these days.

 

[Harper]

I am currently debating about purchacing another APG video card, or just holding out until my new rig and get a PCI-X instead.

So far the FX5700 256Mb is doing is job, so I think I will do the later.

 

[Nubius]

Well I would have had to pretty much buy a whole new system in order to get the 7800GTX, because of the AGP/PCI-E issue

oh yeah, derr, my bad, you're on AGP....I defended AGP for the longest time too and then I just caved in...basically cost $250 to go from AGP to PCI-E, but hell it was worth it...this card overclocks further than my AGP did no to mention the DFI nf3 board sucked balls so overall the system is a lot more stable

I am currently debating about purchacing another APG video card, or just holding out until my new rig and get a PCI-X instead.

::NERD MOMENT:: PCI-X and PCI-E are two completely different things