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Alright, so about 5 or 6 years ago, I bought a evga nvidia gforce 6800 video card. It was pretty much top of the line when I got it.
Lately, i've been bugged by my single core processor and want to upgrade, but to do that, i need a new motherboard and i'm finding that many motherboards don't support agp (which is what my card is) anymore, so I think I may just upgrade to pcie. In researching new cards, I've found cards like the gforce 8600. Not top of the line, but still seems very good.. an upgrade in most cases as compard to the older 6800 i have (despite it being slightly lower end). However, the prices for my card are still in the hundreds: eVGA e-GeForce 6800 Graphics adapter - 128 MB - DDR SDRAM while I found the 8600 for only $35 here!: eParts and More So whats the deal. I compared some of the specs based on this: Comparison of Nvidia graphics processing units - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and the 8600 looks better in almost every respect. I'm no techy, but am I missing something? Any suggestions? Thanks ![]() |
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what do you mean? why? clearly you know something i dont. so please enlighten me. they're both higher end graphics cards, and I want an upgrade, the 8600 with newer technology looked like a cheap way to upgrade.. but I dont know enough about it to be sure. do you have better suggestions?
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The descrepancy can be explained by the fact that PCIE is the current standard, and therefore PCIE cards are in mass-production. AGP is obsolete, so fewer are produced and must therefore cost more in order to be worthwhile to bother selling. That's the basic idea, anyway.
![]() Do you plan on doing any gaming? If so, an 8-series card will leave you high and dry. Otherwise, that card is perfect for normal desktop usage.
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Hi, thanks for the reply. To answer your question, I am not a huge gamer, but i certainly wouldn't want to downgrade in that light from what my 6800 is, which seems to be a pretty good card for that. In fact, if it was PCIE and not agp, I would keep it! but since i have to upgrade the motherboard switching to pcie seems logical.
I guess I assumed that the 'series' had more to do with the time it came otu than anything, with each series containing lower end models like the 200's (something I just learned) and higher end models like the 800's. But your saying the entire 8 series isn't a very gamer friendly series? I don't want to downgrade, ideally a little upgrade would be nice since i'm putting extra money into it. But I dont want to spend a ton and i dont need top of the line, just something that can 'handle' some newer games that just came out since this is the last card i'll buy for a while. If nothing from the 8 series, what would you recommend? Should I just throw down maybe $50 and get a pcie 6800? (thanks for that tip btw, I hadn't even thought about com type affecting price) Thanks! Last edited by sean2a; 08-07-2009 at 05:27 AM.. |
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I think he's looking for a PCIE upgrade though and not AGP.
In your case I wouldn't "replace" any parts per se, but build a new system in parallel. My reasoning is that obsolete parts put together into a working system have value, since the system probably works fine the way it is. On the other hand, obsolete parts by themselves will be worthless to you. That would leave your old system intact, and you could build your new rig to your exact specifications.
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