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CletisMckloskey47

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currently i have an aging 9800pro and i have been looking around and came up with this card as my next upgrade. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814161004
i am on a limited budget of around 270 so no x1900xtx or 7900gtx. due to recent reports of enabling this card to unlock itself to 16 pipelines, i thought this would be a good choice. is this a good card that will last a year or two until i upgrade to a dx10 card?
 
For a little more you can have an X1800XT, which would perform better than even an unlocked GTO.
 
well , you kept the 9800 for so long , whats another ~8 months gonna do ?

just keep saving your money for a good dx10 card
 
well if i do upgrade soon, would the x1800gto or the 7600gt be better in the long run(as in lasting for a year or two)
 
hmm ,

get a used x850xt , you can pick that up for about 140,

it should hold you over till the dx10 cards ,but if you want a better card ,go for the x1800xt at least
 
Just tell me to shut up if your already aware of or planing on this but you will need a new motherboard with PCI Express.
 
not for me. i have the asrock dual sata2 which has agp and pcie on it. if you were not aware, it is posted in my sig.
 
CletisMckloskey47 said:
not for me. i have the asrock dual sata2 which has agp and pcie on it. if you were not aware, it is posted in my sig.
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Sorry, completly overlooked that, I'll go hide now. :D
 
its all good.

i think that what i might do now is wait a bit till summer and see what the plans are for dx10 and compatable cards. from then i will decide.
 
If I had the extra cash I'd snag one of these. As far as I can tell, they are honestly just X1800XL's that are being sold as GTO's:

http://www.connect3d.com/products/pcie_x1800gto.htm

Extract:

321 million transistors on 90nm fabrication process
Sixteen pixel shader processors
Eight vertex shader processors
256-bit 8-channel GDDR3/GDDR4 memory interface
CrossFire Multi-GPU Ready
 
hmmmmmm. i will look into this. i am currently thinking about bidding on an x1800xt 512 mb on ebay. they are around 200 dollars on ebay but they are the unit only. i will keep this in mind.
 
I would go for an unlockable X1800GTO.

Even if you're stuck w/ 12 pipelines, it's still better than a 7600GT imo.
(especially in Oblivion)
 
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