Which card. Only two left.

[Fankango]

After talking to a lot of people on this forum i have come down to two cards.
One, SAPPHIRE 100131L Radeon X800GTO 256MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card
Two, Albatron AGP6600GT-128M AGP Geforce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card.

So now i am just asking which one should i get?
Link to Sapphire http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814102609
Link to Albatron
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814170082

 

[Geoff]

Well the two 6600GT's would perform better. But the x800GTO is only ~$20 more, and performs much better than a single 6600GT.

But those are AGP, and you cant SLI AGP cards.

 

[bigsaucybob]

I personally dont see why this is even a question, I would get the X800GTO no question.

It might have lower clocks speeds but it has more pixel pipelines.

 

[Geoff]

I personally dont see why this is even a question, I would get the X800GTO no question.

It might have lower clocks speeds but it has more pixel pipelines.

You do know he asked if he should get one x800GTO, or two 6600GT's right?

 

[bigsaucybob]

You do know he asked if he should get one x800GTO, or two 6600GT's right?

I realized that after, but like you said: They are AGP cards so that leaves SLI out of the question.

If you were willing to spend $260 on 2 6600GT's then I would say get a new PCI-e motherboard and an midrange pci-e GPU.

 

[fade2green514]

what games do you want to play

 

[way2evil]

i dont think he meant to sli them, he listed his choices like
1. x800gto
2. 6600gt

 

[bigsaucybob]

i dont think he meant to sli them, he listed his choices like
1. x800gto
2. 6600gt

OoOoO, lol that could be very true. Good find.

 

[Filip]

OoOoO, lol that could be very true. Good find.

And it is true, lol

X800GTO, even if it lacks SM3.0 it still performs better and it's worth buying.

 

[bigsaucybob]

And it is true, lol

X800GTO, even if it lacks SM3.0 it still performs better and it's worth buying.

Yea, lol that was a funny mistake.

Refer to my first post, it makes sense now.

 

[Fankango]

You do know he asked if he should get one x800GTO, or two 6600GT's right?

o am i am sorry man, i see my stupidity now. i am only getting one card. when i said only two left i mean i have gone those so many cards i have narrowed it down to two to pick from. i am sorry. so i am either going to get one or the other. i know nothing about cards and those seems to be the best for for the price.

 

[Fankango]

what games do you want to play

right now it is World of Warcraft but i am wanting to play later games like Tabula Rasa and HellGate: London.

 

[Geoff]

o am i am sorry man, i see my stupidity now. i am only getting one card. when i said only two left i mean i have gone those so many cards i have narrowed it down to two to pick from. i am sorry. so i am either going to get one or the other. i know nothing about cards and those seems to be the best for for the price.

Ohh i see, for a minute there it looked like you wanted to SLI some AGP cards

The x800GTO would be a much better choice.

 

[Fankango]

Ohh i see, for a minute there it looked like you wanted to SLI some AGP cards

The x800GTO would be a much better choice.

ok thanks, by the way what is SLI?

 

[bigsaucybob]

ok thanks, by the way what is SLI?

http://www.slizone.com/page/slizone_learn.html

 

[Geoff]

ok thanks, by the way what is SLI?

It's nVidia's way of using two video cards at once, one card to process one half of the screen, and the other card for the other half. It gives you almost twice the performance (Actually more like 80%)

 

[mgoldb2]

Actually more like 80%

If you look hard enough you might be able to find a example of 80% but almost every benchmark I have ever seen has been 50% or less performance increase(most of the time less).

 

[Geoff]

If you look hard enough you might be able to find a example of 80% but almost every benchmark I have ever seen has been 50% or less performance increase(most of the time less).

I guess you could say anywhere from 50% or up, but theoretically it's suppose to be about twice as fast (not that it ever does).

 

[mgoldb2]

I guess you could say anywhere from 50% or up

Even that would be too generous. Lots of times it less then 50% advantage.

 

[Geoff]

Even that would be too generous. Lots of times it less then 50% advantage.

Depends on the program, since some benchmarks may be around 50-75% better, but some older games may not take full advantage of SLI, and thats when it may only be running < 50%