ATI or Nvidia ??????

[Sniper]

Ok,this should get you guys going.I'm in the market to buy a new graphics card.Which should i get ? I have the ATI 9800 Pro modded with Vantec iceberq 4 hsf and Vantec BGA copper ramsinks at the moment,selling it shortly by the way,check my sig for 3DMark scores,sorry naughty of me i know Anyway,should i get the XFX6800 GT or the Ultra ? Or should i get the ATI X800 XT All help appreciated by the way.

 

[pablofrogo]

6800 GT all the way, unless you want to get an X800pro VIVO and mod it to XT. But then it will only be a bit better than a GT @ ultra.

 

[Slayerstaps]

Get the 6800GT. (i'm going for this one as my next vid card )
Don't go for an ati one. my modded 9800 pro to XT runs fine but i had loads of problems with games and the drivers and crap.(already have probs with the 4.9 one's )
I don't kno why but the latest drivers gave me probs so i'm still with 4.6 that one works the best for me
anyways i'm going for a nvidia card the next time....

 

[wazzledoozle]

Sniper, how money do you want for that 9800 pro?

 

[Sniper]

Not sure this is the place for that,i might get told off lol.PM me,and we'll talk money then.

 

[NRP]

Sniper,
The 6800 GT looks to be a very good card for the money (it's almost as fast as the 6800 Ultra). If you like nVidia, then definitely go for the 6800 GT. The 6800 GT outperforms the X800 Pro (for the same cost) fairly conclusively (however, the X800 Pro only has 12 pipes enabled, so the 16 pipe 6800 GT should be faster).

Otherwise, you could get an X800 Pro VIVO and update its Bios to unlock all 16 pipes and set the speeds to 475/450, 500/500, or 520/560 (although not all VIVOs can handle XT PE speeds). This is very easy to do if you follow w1zzard's article on this forum. You may also need to perfom a voltage mod to run at the XT PE's core speed of 520. This is also very easy to do. Some people feel ATI has better image quality, but this is rather subjective. I've not yet seen a comparison between the 6800 GT and a 16 pipe X800 Pro VIVO, but I'd guess they would perform equally. ATI does release new drivers quite frequently, which is always nice.

One final thought. It seems that the 6800 GT performs better (relatively speaking) on mid range cpus. To get the most from an X800 XT PE, you really need a very fast cpu (P4 3.2 GHz or higher, or better yet, an Athlon 64). This may be important depending on your system (I'm upgrading my P4 2.6 GHz cpu to a P4 3.4 GHz). The good thing is you really can't go wrong no matter which way you go. Good luck!

Edit: spelling

 

[15th Warlock]

Go for the 6800GT, it can be easily OCd to Ultra speeds, and you don't have to depend on softmods, or anything in order to activate dissabled or "hidden" pipelines as with the X800Pro.
Even if you get the X800 Pro VIVO, there's always a chance the inactive pipelines could be broken, and you don't want to take that risk when your money is on the line.
IMHO, this round goes to nVidia, as even the 6600 is beating the crap out of the X800Pro in a lot of benchmarks, and that for about $100-150 less!
Until Ati releases the X800GT and maybe the X700, I wouldn't invest on Ati hardware, the only option left is the X800XT and it's way too expensive...
Well, maybe HL2 will change the picture a little bit, but IMO, the safest investment at the moment is the 6800GT.

 

[mustrum]

x800 pro VIVO all the way IF you dare to mod it to a XT PE. (It'S very easy)
If you are no friend of modding the 6800 GT is a great card as well and most can do nearly ULTRA speeds. People say ULTRA when they reach 400mhz core since the reference nvidia ULTRA had 400mhz core clock. In reality the ULTRAS have 425mhz core though wich only very few GTs can handle.

 

[diGitaL]

right.. go for nVidia this time.
the cards perform very very well, very good AF, real trilinear filtering, nicely clockable, SM3.0 etc. -> its the better package imho.

 

[oggy]

recommend ati x850

 

[nightelf84]

definitely a 6800GT! Spend a lil more and get BFG OCs or the gainward golden sample ones... Mine running at ultra speeds (guranteed) is blistering fast! too bad i'm pinned down by my CPU

 

[Mad-Matt]

Im extremely happy with my X800, I feel I made the right choice..If only id waited just 2 more weeks for all these price drops that are going on atm.

 

[kRaZeD]

recommend ati x850

and did u know its only coming out in PCI-E?

And how about the fact that it probably wont be much better than an X800?

 

[nightelf84]

and did u know its only coming out in PCI-E?

And how about the fact that it probably wont be much better than an X800?

good point. I wont be surprise consumers would probably have to have quite deep pockets to get a hand on one of those...