so i bought a x800 xt pe

:eek: :eek: :eek:

yeah, i know.  souly gonna love this one

i jumped on the gateway deal after seeing it on anandtech\'s forums

$390.60 after discount and now free overnight shipping with the mess up gateway did with ordering.

some websites are selling the x800 pro\'s for $399+
saw 6800u\'s for $580 :rolleyes:

better not have a single driver issue
:rpissed:

.....and in that other videocard thread from not so long ago, you were still talking ALL Nvidia. Money is still a universal languague i see :o

The only reason I didn\'t vigorously try to get through to Gateway to get that card was very simple.

PCI-E. I\'m going to need to upgrade to take full advantage of the card, and some PCI-E mobos apparently don\'t have full AGP compatibility although they claim to. Something about running "AGP" on the original 33MHz PCI bus..

Not every manufacturer will do this, but at least one already has. Significantly lower performance.

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mm has converted to the light side


I\'ll end up getting a 9800 XT.

knot, back then it WAS all nvidia

now, 6800u and x800 xt pe are +/- 5fps

and who\'s to say i wont get pissed with driver related issues, sell my 800 xt pe on ebay for hella profit and get a 6800u anyways

mm, i just hope for you, you have the best performance for your moey with that card. me myself, i\'m still in very much doubt at least for some months i guess. Cuz i really would like to be able to play half life 2 and splinter cell 3 at topquality visuals and framerate.

situation right now :

P4 3,2 ghz with 1 gb of corsair ddr500 and the
nvidia quadrofx 1000 workstation card (nv30)
on the 45.28 drivers all on a pc4800e socket 478
mobo with the antec truepower 380w psu.

now, i will still need the isv certified cards for
my maya5 and cinema4d r8 work, so that means
i need a strong opengl card and stability.
i don\'t see myself upgrading to pci-e, cuz then i might as well
upgrade all of my pc, for which i of course lack the resources.
the future upgrade options the way i see \'em from now ;

- waiting til quadrofx3000 gets cheaper
- getting the geforce 6800 GT since all nvidia cards, wether quadro or geforce, are known to be quite reliable at dcc apps like maya.  

i guess... time will reveal the best options..

im running a ti4600 atm, i skipped the 5700/9800 generation

my p4@ 3.6 is begging for it

GATEWAY????? GATEWAY?????  I had noithing but problems with the Proprietary Bullcrap with my last one (wouldnt let me add memory and then KILLED MY HD (it Burned up...not literally but it got UBER hot).

gateway and the gateway accessory store are two totally different animals

m running a ti4600 atm, i skipped the 5700/9800 generation

So am I, yet the funny thing is that I will most likely be getting a 6800 GT-Overclocked to Ultra levels.

While you have opted for the 9700 on Crack, plus I will have a card that can run useless PS 3.0 in FP32 at 15fps--Yeh!!!

GO NVIDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have fun with your shitty ATI drivers, for every new Catalyst ATI releases they create more additions bugs.

still on that rag, eh?

oh, and you will never get the gt\'s 350mz core to 450mz, that of the ultra

im only going with ati for the 1st time because it\'s 1st available, the difference between the 6800u is negligible and i got a great deal

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ehh you said the same thing with me over clocking my ti card.. yet its still overclocked over 1 year later and nothing is wrong with it.

:rolleyes:

overclocking a card, and overclocking the core GPU 100mz are two totally different animals

especially one that runs as hot as the 6800u

you think it has that double size heatsink for any old reason?

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He may be using water cooling.


These doods got pretty close
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/geforce_6800_ultra_extreme/page22.asp

yet its still overclocked over 1 year later and nothing is wrong with it.

My Ti4600 has been overclocked and VOLT modded for 2 years, yet still it runs perfect just like the day I bought it.
I do have some serious cooling for that card.

Also The 6800 GT is $100 less than the 6800U and it outperforms the X800Pro. Now rumor has it that ATI might release a X800 XT-Non platinum edition, (lower GPU/Mem speed, with 16 working pipelines) in order to compete with the 6800 GT. If this does indeed occur I will be getting the X800 XT.