hi

Am in need of a replacement for my awful onboard Unichrome video card.

Strict budget of around 50 quid , spotted this card, wonder if anyone can shine some light on this video card for me?

Its a PCIE 6800XT 256mb at exactly 50 quid - spot on my budget !

Is it any good - not a hardcore gamer or anything but I do like to play games every now and again at a reasonable framerate !! (hate slideshows put it that way !!! )

My board is an MSI K9VGM with 1gb dd667 and an athlon 3.5 if that helps !

Any other suggestions for a good budget card welcome ATI or NVIDIA - not fussed which.


cheers in advance

CMK

well i have an GF6800XT and to tell you the truth its not that bad, if you can find anything else such as a GF 7600GS, GF 6800GS/GT , ATI x1600pro/xt
but if thats all you can get then its not so bad, yes it is an insult to the Gf 6800 series but i have had worse and i can play everything , some on medium most on high so im very happy with it

My pc is mainly for video editing - I use Linux a lot - but I also would like to play some games in XP every now and again , and the onboard unchrome 9 thing is rubbish (scoring 694 with 3dmark03 ! )

My board is an MSI K9VGM with 1gb ddr667 and an athlon 3.5, 80gb sata Hdd my psu is 400W.


Are the TurboCache card any good? (7300GS 256mb going cheap I see ? )


cheers

CMK

No.

hi

all the nvidia cards in my budget range seem to be turbocache which everyone dislikes , any decent PCI-E , ATI offerings and is there a ATI Turbocache equivalent to steer clear of?


cheers

cmk

The 6800 isn't that bad. It's way better than the 7300's or X1300's. It's about on par with a 7600 or so.

6800xt is an exellent card for 50$

Decent gameplay and outstanding anything else period !

DON'T get an XT, get a GS at least.

"Quid" are english-pounds, the poster is referring to 50 english-pounds or ~$100 US dollars or ~110 CA dollars

Best cards to buy right now are nVidia 7600GT or 7950GT

Here i'll drop a few links:

XFX 7600GT $119 US + $10 MIR off + Free Shipping!
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Prod [...] ode=321086
(XXX oc'd same price AR)

eVGA 7600GT $117 US + $20 MIR off + Free Shipping!
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Prod [...] ode=322834
(KO oc'd $15 more)

Ditto : )

I think that the best you can hope to get for £50 is a 7600 GS, and I would say that it would be preferable against a 6 series card. This one is from a brand I haven't heard of, but has 200mhz faster GDDR3 memory than the gigabyte one of a near identical GDDR2 model, for a very similar price. http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Pro [...] tID=498837 and http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Pro [...] ID=470935. The Gigabyte one uses passive cooling though, so will be quieter. Either would be a good buy, and feature shader model 3, whereas the 6 series card you mentioned only has SM 2, and an overall older chip architecture. This will mean it will be less well adapted to playing more recent games. I would go for one of those cards if I was you. Scan are a good place to use as they replaced my Seagate hard drive last year when it damaged itself and became unusable.

I also found this at scan.uk

Sapphire x1650

f61

6800xt's overclock like crazy, I got mine to 471 core clock off 350 and memory up to 1355 from 1000, but I do not know how overclocked ones compare to newer cards. Too bad you aren't looking for an AGP card, you can unlock the pipelines in those.

I wouldnt reccomend the X1650's at all, they are really bad performance wise.

My housemate is using my old standard 6800 (12 pipelines 5 shaders) which runs all the latest games on decent settings @ 1024x768, but I think the 6800xt has the added bonus of being able to unlock to 16 pipelines + 5 shaders.

Im not sure if this is true on the PCI-E version, as it wasnt on the standard 6800 that I had.

But if it does unlock, you would essentially have a 6800 GT with slightly lower clocks.

My 6800 was able to overclock to 425/900 and was damn decent back then. That was with 800mhz Hynix DDR-1 chips. It turned out to be be very cost effective to the 6800gt, and much better then the 6600 GT that I were going to buy at the time after my 9800 xt burnt out.

For £50 though, I doubt you can get any better unless you manage to find a 7600GS.

I know you said strct budget of £50 but if you can stretch to another £6.11 then this 7600GT is up at £56.11 and would be a good purchase:

http://www.dabs.com/productview.as [...] ationKey=0

It even says its clocked at 580/750 which, if I remember correctly is overclocked from the standard 560MHz.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] =GX-063-OK

1950pro.

wait for it....

£61.99 ex VAT.

£61.99!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a card with 36 pixel shaders.

256 of ram.


spend the extra 11 quid you tight c*nt. you KNOW its worth it.

( got me one on sunday. arrives tommorw. bye bye 6600GT...)