a tragedy

[odie2190]

June 22, 2007-a date which will live in infamy

my video card died. (((

[stopthekilling77]

quite sad, but at least now you have the option to upgrade or go back to what you know was tried and true!

after your mourning, which card are you looking at?

[DMB2000uk]

Sorry to hear. 7600 or 8400 time?

Dan

[odie2190]

dunno. what ever i can afford. moneys pretty tight atm i thnk the pc is gonna be outta commision for a lil. im looking at 2 6800 gts on ebay. though.

[DMB2000uk]

Not a good idea ^_^

I'm pretty sure that a 7600GT beats the 6800Ultra. So get out of the 6 series already
(Plus they use a bit less power)

Dan

[smack323]

i agree- stay away from the 6800 - for a little more than the cost of two of those you could get a 7950

[Azndude51]

What was the card that died?

[smack323]

from the sig it looks like a PNY 6600 256mb

[Kougar]

Not a good idea ^_^

I'm pretty sure that a 7600GT beats the 6800Ultra. So get out of the 6 series already
(Plus they use a bit less power)

Dan

Yes this is quite true, a 7600GT will outperform or evenly tie a 6800Ultra. What about XFX GeForce 8600GT XXX Edition $110 Shipped after $20 MIR. http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDe ... ode=321123? I don't think you will find that performance for much less, unless there is an even better MIR on ZZF or Newegg that I don't know about.

Edit: Sorry, I'm afraid it is not AGP though... AGP cards tend to cost much more for the same performance as ther equivalent PCIe cards. You can find some extremely cheap >$50 AM2 boards and processors though these days...