Hello,
I am posting in hopes of gaining some guidance on upgrading my VGA card. First, my system is AGP only, so I am pretty restricted.
I have always been a huge ATI fan, and currently have a 9800 pro (flashed as an XT) but think it may be time for an upgrade now.
I would be open to either nvidia or ATI, but have heard that the latest AGP releases from ATI are lacking in support for newer pixel shader standards. As a result I have been focusing my attention on the geforce 6800 series cards (the 7800's are just too expensive) and the whole thing has me thuroughly confused.
They have som many designations for these cards, and I can't find a single guide or chart that covers them all.
So far I have seen:
6800 GT (quite ridiculously expensive , actually the ones ive seen have been more than the 7800's)
6800 GS
6800
6800 XT
and the 6800 ultra
I guess I can assume by price that the GT is the best of the bunch, but aside from that distinction, I am quite confused. Do any of you know of a place where I can find a comaprison of the vanilla 6800, the GT, GS, XT and Ultra?
I am posting in hopes of gaining some guidance on upgrading my VGA card. First, my system is AGP only, so I am pretty restricted.
I have always been a huge ATI fan, and currently have a 9800 pro (flashed as an XT) but think it may be time for an upgrade now.
I would be open to either nvidia or ATI, but have heard that the latest AGP releases from ATI are lacking in support for newer pixel shader standards. As a result I have been focusing my attention on the geforce 6800 series cards (the 7800's are just too expensive) and the whole thing has me thuroughly confused.
They have som many designations for these cards, and I can't find a single guide or chart that covers them all.
So far I have seen:
6800 GT (quite ridiculously expensive , actually the ones ive seen have been more than the 7800's)
6800 GS
6800
6800 XT
and the 6800 ultra
I guess I can assume by price that the GT is the best of the bunch, but aside from that distinction, I am quite confused. Do any of you know of a place where I can find a comaprison of the vanilla 6800, the GT, GS, XT and Ultra?