Graphic Card buying help

[yuppi]

Right now I have the following card:

Radeon 9700 Pro and want to make a yupgrade because of Battlefield 2. I don't want another ATI card. They always seem to have problems. Like right now there's a problem with BF2 and supposedly there's going to be a patch from ATI in the future. I just don't like ATI and their drivers. When I yupgrade to a new driver it always gives me problems. I only got this card because it was cheap.

I want to upgrade and I want to go to Nvidia. I don't want to spend a fortune if I don't have to. I'm looking at two cards:

GeForce FX 5950 Ultra and the GeForce 6800 GT. I was looking at specs for both of the cards (as well as what I have now) on this website: http://www.pcvsconsole.com/features/video/

My question is this: Compairing both of the new cards I am considering how much of a benefit would I see in the 6800 GT as opposed to the FX. The 6800 has pixel pipelines 16x1 and the FX has 4x2. The 6800 has 525m vertice and the FX has 356M. The 6800 uses shader model 3.0 and the FX 2.0. Bandwidth is about the same.

I can get the 5950 a lot cheaper than the 6800.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

LOL @ FX5950 !

Yeah if you get that you'd have no problems :lol: :lol:


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[Guest]

ummmm
lets just say that in modern game it would eb a downgrade 9700 to 5950. I had a 5900 plain flashed to 5950 U and now I have a 6800U and I kick the others ass.

Dude go for a X800XL or a 6800

btw whats the price you can grab the 5950 for? I can sell you mine!

Asus P4P800DX, P4C 2.6ghz@3.25ghz, 2X512 OCZ PC4000 3-4-4-8, MSI 6800Ultra stock, 2X30gig Raid0

 

[Robc1880]

I know you don't care for ATI, but here is a really good deal <A HREF="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102492R" target="_new">$288 refurbed AIW X800XT from newegg</A>

 

[Crashman]

That's a terrific deal!

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[pauldh]

FX5950U


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[KCjoker]

Here's another great deal and it's brand new a PNY 6800 for $156

<A HREF="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814133114" target="_new">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814133114</A>

 

[pauldh]

Very nice deal indeed.

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