the_music_man
aka prodj88 =P
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maybe u should wait cuz ati is developing a new chip with the ps3's
LordOfLA said:ATI's 2004 Offerings are pretty direm, and if you thought it was hard getting a 6800Ultra ATI cant even SHIP the X800 range to its OEM partners nevermind anyone else, so even though they are okay alternatives, you cant get one.
so your choices would be a 9800Pro or 9800XT from ATI,
6800GT AGP/PCI-E, 6600GT AGP/PCI or 6200 AGP from nVidia
Personally for games I'd go with the 6800GT AGP, for home entertainment take a loko at the 6600 and for an el cheaper that is upto date but not so demanding on the wallet the 6200 but that is really fairly crippled imo.
Sazar said:check out www.hardocp.com , www.beyond3d.com and www.anandtech.com for some decent reviews...
the benches generally don't lie...
best bang for buck (if/when it makes it to the market) is the new ati card... the x800 XL running on 0.11 micron tech for pci-Express... @ $299 and with 16 pipes and being one of the faster cards out there, its a mini-monster...
otherwise the 6600 series (in future sli-mode) and the 6800GT continue to be good investments... around $399 for the big brother and its plenty fast in pretty near everything...
Sazar said:ati is developing new graphics processors with microsoft and nintendo...
nvidia is working with sony prodj...
Wrathchild said:Hey Sazar,
I just picked up an Intel PCX motherboard and 3.4 GHz processor. It was a deal I couldn't refuse; 250 bucks total. I just sold my AGP-based GeForceFX 5900 Ultra on Ebay for 125 and bought a 6600 256Meg PCX card until the prices come down on the 6800 Ultra PCX (600 bucks is just silly). In the interim, I'm wondering about SLI. As I understand it, you need a board which has 2 16x PCX connectors. Mine doesn't, and I haven't seen any who do. Will there be an SLI-like solution to expand over to the 1x PCX slot? My board has 1 16x and 2 1x slots.
-Wrath
Wrathchild said:However this time around, Microsoft is only liscensing the chip technology from ATI to build their own chips. No where near as profitable a deal as Nvidia had with MS the first time around. Microsoft will be scooping in all the revenue Nvidia raked in by selling MS the chips at a flat, negotiated fee per chip, while continuing to refine their manufacturing process to the point where they were making a 50% profit for every xbox manufactured.
-Wrath
Wrathchild said:Hey Sazar,
I just picked up an Intel PCX motherboard and 3.4 GHz processor. It was a deal I couldn't refuse; 250 bucks total. I just sold my AGP-based GeForceFX 5900 Ultra on Ebay for 125 and bought a 6600 256Meg PCX card until the prices come down on the 6800 Ultra PCX (600 bucks is just silly). In the interim, I'm wondering about SLI. As I understand it, you need a board which has 2 16x PCX connectors. Mine doesn't, and I haven't seen any who do. Will there be an SLI-like solution to expand over to the 1x PCX slot? My board has 1 16x and 2 1x slots.
-Wrath