New Nvidia card worth it?

Hi all,

I'm considering a new card upgrade to maximise performance in HL2 and
hopefully Battlefield 2 which is due out in the Spring. Six months ago I
purchased a 9800 Pro to replace my Ti4200, and because of the driver
issues I'm thinking of going back to Nvidia.

My current specs:

Abit NF7-S
2800 Barton
1Gb 3200 DDR

I also just bought a Dell 2001fp TFT monitor, which has a native
resolution of 1600 x 1200 (20.1 inch), but it interpolates down to 1280
x 1024 without too much image degradation. Therefore I only really need
to hit 60fps max, but constant, and I've enabled V-Sync.

My Counter Strike: Source video stress test at 1280 x 1024 gives me
roughly 50fps, but it stutters in parts of the test.

I'm not really a hardcore gamer, I just play for fun and like things to
look pretty. So the cost of the monitor and a new 6800 GT is probably a
bit too much for me to spend right now. Therefore, are there any other
new cards that might give me a boost. Looking around it seems the 128Mb
6800 cards are around £100 cheaper than the 256Mb cards, so I was
wondering if these 256Mb cards are really needed right now.

If it has to be the 6800 GT then so be it, my fault for buying such a
huge monitor.

Thanks,

Rob.

I also just bought a Dell 2001fp TFT monitor, which has a native
resolution of 1600 x 1200 (20.1 inch), but it interpolates down to 1280
x 1024 without too much image degradation. Therefore I only really need
It should scale down to 800x600 pretty well, too.

9800 XT card is not bad but if you can afford 6800 GT is not bad at all..

I know its nvidia group but "us" users want performance at affordable price
I hope more companies make graphics card that beats both nvidia and ATI..


"Cheesy" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I'm considering a new card upgrade to maximise performance in HL2 and
hopefully Battlefield 2 which is due out in the Spring. Six months ago I
purchased a 9800 Pro to replace my Ti4200, and because of the driver
issues I'm thinking of going back to Nvidia.

My current specs:

Abit NF7-S
2800 Barton
1Gb 3200 DDR

I also just bought a Dell 2001fp TFT monitor, which has a native
resolution of 1600 x 1200 (20.1 inch), but it interpolates down to 1280
x 1024 without too much image degradation. Therefore I only really need
to hit 60fps max, but constant, and I've enabled V-Sync.

My Counter Strike: Source video stress test at 1280 x 1024 gives me
roughly 50fps, but it stutters in parts of the test.

I'm not really a hardcore gamer, I just play for fun and like things to
look pretty. So the cost of the monitor and a new 6800 GT is probably a
bit too much for me to spend right now. Therefore, are there any other
new cards that might give me a boost. Looking around it seems the 128Mb
6800 cards are around £100 cheaper than the 256Mb cards, so I was
wondering if these 256Mb cards are really needed right now.

If it has to be the 6800 GT then so be it, my fault for buying such a
huge monitor.

Thanks,

Rob.