amolyneaux
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Anyone have any experience with this card? it's only $150 at tigerdirect, just wondered if it was any good.
XFX GeForce 6800 Xtreme / 512MB GDDR3
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Recently I've heard complaints on the XFX7900 GT model card. That may have more to do with the model not the brand there. One review states:
"We proceed with our tests of video cards based on NVIDIA GeForce 6800, which are gradually appearing on the market. It's a Low End model, which is intended to replace such previous High End cards as RADEON 9800 XT and GeForce FX 5950 Ultra. ATI does not yet have anything to offer in this segment, which could extrude RADEON 9800 XT from the market (or could at least dramatically drop its prices, which is however hardly possible because these cards are long out of production and stores offer the cards that were purchased by the dealers long ago at high prices)." http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/gffx/nv40-5.html
"We proceed with our tests of video cards based on NVIDIA GeForce 6800, which are gradually appearing on the market. It's a Low End model, which is intended to replace such previous High End cards as RADEON 9800 XT and GeForce FX 5950 Ultra. ATI does not yet have anything to offer in this segment, which could extrude RADEON 9800 XT from the market (or could at least dramatically drop its prices, which is however hardly possible because these cards are long out of production and stores offer the cards that were purchased by the dealers long ago at high prices)." http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/gffx/nv40-5.html
sHoW StOpPeR
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It depends what are you using it for? And make sure it supports what ever model motherboard you using.
If your board runs PCI-E cards you wouldn't have any problem running it on that type of board. For OCing some will refer to other models. It's cheaper there then at newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150154
diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
You'd be MUCH better off getting a 7600gt, it's alot better than the 6800xt.
For $25 more the MSI model here looks good. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127217
I have that card and its great runs cool and is not to loud at all and plays most games maxed out.
One of my old 128mb MSI AGP cards was a tail kicker. The MSI Radeon X1300 Pro has done well so far here. But between the two models you would see more out of the 7800 GT. MSI is a good brand to add to that.
ceewi1
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If you like double slot cooling. Personally, i'd save a bit of money with this 7600GT:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143049
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143049
pbdr
New Member
Well if evryone's posting their favortite 7600GT...
I have this one. It runs everything I have at highest resolution.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150182
I have this one. It runs everything I have at highest resolution.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150182
That's good since XFX's 7900 GT has seen a good number of complaints lately. A deal of the cards NVidia or ATI will run a number of games at the highest settings. The reason for that is that those are the gaming models.
amolyneaux
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Thanks for all the advice! I love this forum!