Graphics AGP upgrade: 6800GT or X800pro?

Hi people!

I'm looking to get a decent gaming graphics card to replace the (£11 ) Radeon 7000 in my main machine... Its specs will be: A64 3500+; 1GB PC3?00 ram; Asus A8V Deluxe mobo. I've got around £180-£200 to spend on this, as I assume it'll be the last AGP card I buy, so I want to to last a while. I won't be playing at higher res than 1280x1024. Am I right in thinking that an overclocked 6800GT like this is the best I can get for this money, or do ATi make something better? It looks like the X800XL is better value, but only available for PCIE, right? I'd like to overclock, but I don't want to do any softmods etc. to unlock pipes.

EDIT: I got the impression/guessed from Tom's that the 6800GT was best value when overclocked to 400/1100 or around that. A couple of reviews quoted as high as 417MHz core, but I'm not betting on it!

Many thanks for any suggestions,


ch424

 

Have you bought the bits already? Since PCI-E bits arent really much more (some cases less)
6800GT Cheesecake.

 

I've already got the whole system running (for over a year), with athlon64 and the mobo, and 512Mb of cheap ram. I'm gonna upgrade to a gig of nicer stuff/buy 512Mb more cheap stuff in october.

What do you mean by Cheesecake?
ch424

 

Cheesecake=for the win= 6800gt is his choice lol.

 

Oh, right! I wasn't sure if he meant WTF, like some people write "teh" when they mean "the" or if he meant "for the <word for money beginning with w>"
Thanks for clearing that up

Any other opinions people?

Thanks,

ch424

 

The 6800 GT is generally considered to be faster than the X800 Pro. There is X800 XL on AGP but it is slightly more expensive than the PCI-Express version, just to clear that myth up.

 

Oh, yeah, it's even in the tom's charts I linked to ! So would this agp versionbe faster than the 6800GT? The GT seems to just beat it in all their tests save HL2, at default clocks, so with OC, it should be way ahead, right?

Looks like the 6800GT then,

thanks for the help everybody!

ch424

 

Good choice. I've heard that nVidia has better 64 bit drivers than ATi. I do have to comment that installing the nVidia drivers on my new PC went by very smooth.
BTW, do download and install the 64 bit drivers for better performance.

 

OK, I was just about to buy when I saw this: does anyone know what makes it so cheap? It has the correct clocks for an X800XT PE -- does it use crappy memory or something?
EDIT: I mean the ASUS AX800XT/TVD/256MB
Thanks,

ch424

 

Well its on special offer? If I had the money this week I'd be buying one, but I don't, so, I won't

 

OK, I've ordered the X800XT PE w0000t!!! I'm so happy!

Summer jobs are t3h r0xx0ring Time to find one for next year...

ch424

 

that asus x800xtpe is a cracking card for the amount of cash you pay. a bit faster than the 6800gt too.

 

You got one? I hope mine's the version that comes with a webcam If not, I still have condition zero and deus ex 2 to play with As well as component video output for the future! I can't wait 'til tuesday!

ch424