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7800GS graphics card... worth it?
I have the misfortune of being stuck with an AGP motherboard. I'm
don't feel the need to ditch my Athlon 64 3000+ just yet, but at the same time I don't feel comfortable investing money into a dead technology like AGP. Most of the fancy new cards are PCI-Express only, and I can't really use 'em unless I overhaul my entire system. So at this point... is the 7800GS worth my $300? Or would I be stupid to spend any money on a dead technology? I'm not very picky with my PC games. I'm perfectly content with 1280x768 resolution *without* AA, as long as all the other details are close to maximum. I don't need to be playing at 120 fps all the time either. I can tolerate an average framerate of 45-50 fps, but not any lower. With that in mind... how long will the 7800GS keep me content with the latest games until it can no longer satisfy my requirements? 9 months? 18 months? |
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The bottom line is the guy wants to run modern games - presumably ones
like Oblivion, Call of Duty 2 & FEAR. I have an Amiga 500 that will run those games about as well as your machine, but I don't run anything past about 1993 on it so I guess I haven't run into any problems either and it's not "dead" technology. |
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Most of the fancy new cards are PCI-Express only, and I can't really
use 'em unless I overhaul my entire system. So at this point... is the 7800GS worth my $300? Or would I be stupid to spend any money on a dead technology? I just upgraded from an XFX GeForce 6600GT -to- an eVGA GeForce 7800GS-OC/256MB and found a noticable improvement. I play only UT2004, and noticed the graphics load quicker, and everything appears a wee bit more defined. The 6600GT goes in my kids PC, which will double their video ram. It's a fine card in & of itself. I just decided to get the 7800GS as it's very likely the end of our AGP road. With that in mind... how long will the 7800GS keep me content with the latest games until it can no longer satisfy my requirements? Depends on which games you'll be wanting to try out. As others have pointed out, even the latest PCi-E/SLi cards get taxed on a couple of those games, and any AGP card will _really_ show it's limitations. -- Jim Using - Virtual Access(OLR), ZASS 6.1, & WinXP Pro w/SP2 http://www.virtual-access.org |
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"Thomas" looked up from reading the entrails
of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: The bottom line is the guy wants to run modern games - presumably ones like Oblivion, Call of Duty 2 & FEAR. I have an Amiga 500 that will run those games about as well as your machine, but I don't run anything past about 1993 on it so I guess I haven't run into any problems either and it's not "dead" technology. I think you'd be surprised what a GF3Ti200 can run if you aren't hung up on huge resolutions and FSAA and AF and if it's one with a good amount of RAM on it. Oblivion - probably not. GTA:SA, VTM:Bloodline, Guild Wars - no problem at all for a 128 meg gf3ti200 @ 1280x1024 with no FSAA or AF. A good decade less obsolete than that Amiga. Xocyll -- I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably, Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr |
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Butterfield wrote: What are you running now besides an Athlon 64 3000+? Butterfield Athlon 64 3000+ 1 GB RAM Radeon 9800 Pro Would the 7800GS give any significant performance increase over the 9800 Pro? Would the CPU bottleneck the video card? Honestly, while my current PC isn't fast enough to run the latest and greatest games, it's still good enough for everything else I do. Surfing the web, watching movies, playing music, video editing, minor programming, surfing the web, word processing, and so forth. Besides gaming, I can't even imagine any activity that my PC can't handle for the next 5 or 10 years. That's why I'm very reluctant to completely overhaul a perfectly good PC right now just so I can play games with a PCI Express graphics card. |
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