Wait for nVidia G70 or get a 6800(X) for new rig?

VAdept

Member

​

Joined

Mar 15, 2004

Location

Hidden Mountaintop Research Lab

• May 31, 2005

• #1

Im sure this is a question for many of those building new rigs or upgrading right now. With it looking like the G70 will be out sometime in June I don't think I can see myself dropping cash on a 6800 just to have it outclassed in a month.

I think im going to just throw a cheap PCI-based card in my new system and wait for the G70. When it does arrive I will be able to run 4 monitors (which is likely) and even 6 when I get another G70 for SLi albiet only when SLi is disabled.

 

RedDragonXXX

Senior RAM Pornographer

​

Joined

Mar 3, 2005

Location

Jacksonville, FL

• May 31, 2005

• #2

If you have that much money then yeah go ahead and get G70, as for me I'm going to wait for next-gen next to G70. Why, because I expected G70 to hit at least 10,000 in 3DMark 05 and have 32pipes instead of 24

 

I

IrishAssassin

Member

​

Joined

Mar 31, 2005

Location

Montreal

• May 31, 2005

• #3

6 monitors ? I thought 2 monitors was more than enough.

 

Sentential

Contributing Member

​

Joined

Sep 16, 2003

Location

Knoxville, TN

• May 31, 2005

• #4

I am debating this as well. Right now my focus has turned to ebay to get a couple cheap 6800s. If I am unsuccessful I will buy one 7800GTX and buy another later on.

 

d94

$30 a phone

​

Joined

Sep 26, 2004

Location

48302

• May 31, 2005

• #5

ya.. i dunno if i want to sell my ultra n' go pci-e or wait till the gen after next

 

S

Saints 26

Member

​

Joined

Dec 20, 2003

• Jun 1, 2005

• #6

Im gonna run this 6800 ultra into the ground. i've never kept a vc more than 7 months I kinda like this one. 2 things first there aren't any games demanding anything more powerful than a 6800 ultra or any really good games for that matter. Second I'm waiting to see hoe the agp thing is going to play out. If the next gen comes in agp then maybe by the end of ther year if not I'[ll wait untill the next gen and make the move to pci express.

 

OP

VAdept

Member

​

Joined

Mar 15, 2004

Location

Hidden Mountaintop Research Lab

• Jun 1, 2005

• Thread Starter
• #7

I decided to grab a cheap dual-output PCI vid card for now. Im hoping nVidia's next generation has some new SLi features to better compete with ATi's CrossFire.

 

Streifenkarl

Member

​

Joined

Nov 10, 2004

• Jun 1, 2005

• #8

I'd wait until the G70 has been released and then buy a cheap 6800Ultra.

 

Counda

Member

​

Joined

Jan 1, 2005

Location

Nova Scotia, Canada

• Jun 1, 2005

• #9

Streifenkarl said:

I'd wait until the G70 has been released and then buy a cheap 6800Ultra.

Click to expand...

Unless the G70 is 50%+ better, I'm doing that in my new system