[Question] Video Card Upgrade Question.

I'd say keep what you have. A 9800 can still go a long ways.

Without getting PCI-E (You pretty much have no options), you can't go much farther without needing a new mobo in the next year or so.

You should be able to hold on to that until 2007 and then ask yourself this question. You don't NEED to play UT2K7 at 10,000Hz Refresh Rate on 500,000 px by 250,000px resolution.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Murdercrow

Or Quake 4 at a resolution above 640x480. =\

I have a fucking 6800 Vanilla, and I can't run it at a consistently playable framerate at anything above the absolute LOWEST settings. ;_;

My FX5600 can still play anything just fine. The biggest problem though is the motherboard (and thus a new machine, basically). I've been holding off on buying a new machine. It's hard to not wonder "What would this run like on a new computer?" but the cost of "upgrading video cards" is really a lot bigger picture.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I'll try (cant this weekend, out of town) to bring up the net graphs and post some stats for it. Oh: And I don't overclock either.

People just put too much trust into a video card and believe it is what makes or breaks a gaming experience.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Solis

There's still a long way you can go on AGP from the 9800. A 6800gs/gt is a good 2.5x faster than the 9800pro, and has more features (like SM3.0 support), not to mention has twice as much ram. PCI-E is nice for future upgrades, but hardly required since there's still plenty of AGP cards on the market that perform extremely well.

They're trying to make AGP obsolete.....nVidia was nice to offer than new 7800 model for the AGP to give us something else to look forward to.

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