X850XT or 6800GS?

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Just on the off chance that I need to buy a new motherboard, and therefore a new vid card I decided to look around at what prices were like these days. I was very pleased to see that the 6800GS and amazingly the X850XT were both at $169 off newegg. Darn cheap, especially since the X850XT was once $500+! Anyway my money is on the 6800GS as it performs very much like the 6800Ultra (when it's OCed a bit) and has shader model 3 and SLI support. I imagine the X850XT is a little faster in some tests besides HL2 but if it's not much I'd go with the 6800GS (or another similarly priced card) as I could bump up performance bit time if I needed to by adding another card.
If you want to look into something else I have pretty narrow spec demands:
256MB
256-bit interface
GDDR3
HD support would be nice
Under $200 is ideal, no more than $250.
Good clock speeds, like 400/1000 or better.
If there are two cheapo cards that would fall in this price range yet yield >6800Ultra performance I'd concider that too.
Thanks for that help:)
 
I'd probably go with the GS.
I've seen how they perform in games and read nothing but good reviews.
Plus, SM3 looks brilliant!
 
pelvis_3 said:
I'd probably go with the GS.
I've seen how they perform in games and read nothing but good reviews.
Plus, SM3 looks brilliant!
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I would go for the 6800GS if you already have an SLI motherboard, if you don't have an SLI motherboard and would need to get one.. i would buy the X850XT & a Crossfire compatible motherboard (2x ATI cards @ PCI-e x16).

A close friend got hooked on games later on in life and decided to build himself a computer (or get me to do it..) so he brought a Sapphire Crossfire 939 Motherboard, AMD64 4400 X2, 1GB 2-2-2-5 memory and some other ridiculously nice parts but he put two X850XT's in.. and i swear it performs better than a friends 7900..

But then it depends on what games you're playing :)

If you're like me and only play DOD:Source online, you'd be fine playing with an X300 128MB :D
 
Thanks dudes, yeah I was thinking that the 6800GS would be the way to go as all the X850XT's seem to be really loud, according to the reviews. The X850Pro I used in my friends computer at first was a like a wind tunnel and it uses the same cooler.
 
After checking out some sites it looks like the 7600GT is the new mid/high end baby. It's only 128-bit but with massive clock speeds up to 580/1500 out of the box it screams past both the 6800GS and 6800GT in the tests I've seen. Good stuff for under $200:good:
 
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