Is it worth going pci-e?

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BluntStatic

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What would peform better a 6800gt 256mb AGP card or a 6600gt 128mb PCI-E card?

 

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wat are the system specs? depening on what you have it can go either way. Ifyou look in my sig ima stay w/ agp im going to buy a 6800gt and that will be more then enough power untill i need to upgrade again as im planning to in a year and a half or so.

 

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demighost said:

wat are the system specs? depening on what you have it can go either way. Ifyou look in my sig ima stay w/ agp im going to buy a 6800gt and that will be more then enough power untill i need to upgrade again as im planning to in a year and a half or so.

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what kind of fps are you getting do you play HL2 or BF2? and at what settings

My system specs are

amd64 socket 939 3000+

Asus a8v deluxe

Asus a9550GE overclocked to 460/230

1gb Kingston value ram

 

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from most of the benchmarks ive seen between a 6600GT pci-e vs AGP the pci-e as better scores but its like between 1 or 2 points where its not worth a big deal, i would assume its the same way for a 6800 also.. look for benchmarks online im sure ull find something

 

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If you have agp mobo probably is not worth going pci e. Similar card from ati and nividia performs about the same in pci e and agp. So if you even go from 6600gt agp to 6600gt pci that card will perform about the same.

There are few advantages for pci e right now, one is SLI, the other is that agp is being phase out, upcoming high end gfx cards might be not offered in agp.

 

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opps didnt see the agp was 256 mb's i would probably go with that one..

 

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I have decide to stick with AGP what do you guys think of this card? is there anything cheaper or better for the same peformance?

o and thank you tons! for your replys i would of made a bad mistake

oops forgot to post the link http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814150102

 

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I am using the comp in my sig and I got 6615 on 3DMark05. AGP works great for me.

 

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I think it's worth it in the long run but the best bang for the buck might be AGP for now rather than updating the mobo/processor/memory & PCIe card.

If you are going to upgrade your mobo then go with the newer technology.

 

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I have seen some really killer prices on high end AGP cards lately.

 

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I may be able to sell my motherboard to a friend. Does anyone know of any computer part classfieds?

 

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At 100 posts you can access the classifieds on this forum.

 

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inkfx said:

At 100 posts you can access the classifieds on this forum.

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ahhhh.... no wonder I could never see them.

 

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If you go pci-e you won't be happy with a 6600gt, it's not giong to be much faster than what you already have. The 6800gt will give you much better performance than a 6600gt pci-e.

 

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where dose it say my post count?

 

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Left click on your name then select view publick profile and it will show you how many post you have.

 

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thanks

 

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I'm not going to switch from AGP until I'm ready to go to socket 939/sata/and PCI-E at the same time.

 

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Originally Posted by tLove
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At 100 posts you can access the classifieds on this forum.


ahhhh.... no wonder I could never see them.

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lol, I had that exact same problem, it confunded(too much HP) me for a long time. It bugged me alot and i didnt even try to figure out why.
Oh well, it doesnt take that long to get 100 posts anyway.