Looking for feed back on high end G-Force cards...

Valen68 · Post by **Valen68** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 17:18

I am currently running a G-Force 5700 VE 256mb but thinking of upgrading to the 6000 series. Please share your performance with the G-Force 6000 series.

My current PC specs are:

Athlon XP 3200 CPU
1 gig 3200 DDR memory
Gigabyte MB built in LAN
G-Force 5700 VE 256mb
SB Gamer Audigy
80 gig WD 7200 RPM harddrive
60 gig IBM 7200 RPM harddrive (data storage drive)

What I am trying to find out if I can achieve liquid X2 game play especially in ship combat.

TerrorTrooper · Post by **TerrorTrooper** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 17:43

first of all, this belongs in Technical support i think...

but one of my PC's has an XFX 6600GT 256MB, and i have to be honest, for a mid range card, it performs nearly as good as my Radeon X800 Pro
whitch cost me about twice as much...

the Ge-Force 5 series were absolutely Pathetic.. never seen such a crap mainstream release of cards in all my years of PC bashing..
But N-Vidia have more than made up for there mistake with the 6 Series...

word of advice.. when buying a gfx card, never buy a standard card like an FX ect..

Always buy a middle or a top version.. believe me, the performance boost is more than worth the few extra quid..

(example, i had a Ge-Force 4 ti4600 128MB, and i upgraded to a Ge Force FX5700 256MB, and i have to be frank, although the FX5700 made pretyer pictures, the fact that these pictures should move seems like it was added as an afterthought.. the Ti4600 knocked socks of my FX5700 hands down, and that cost me a fair few quid when the 5700 was new..)

Post by **CBJ** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 17:44

TerrorTrooper wrote:first of all, this belongs in Technical support i think...

No it doesn't, I just moved it out of there. The Tech Support forum is for technical queries about the game, not about general PC building.

JihadJoe · Post by **JihadJoe** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 17:47

I think that a 6800 LE will be good for you ( if you want to OC it and open a faw pipes/softmod it to GT).
but if you don't want to mess with it,I say go for a 6600 GT (just without the passive cooling),OR go for leadtech 6600 extream witch comes OC'ed allready from the factory.
just make sure you get the version with DDR3.

karne · Post by **karne** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 18:36

I've got a Geforce 6800 (standard not GT) with a Barton running at 2.2 Ghz, 1 gig ram. I run at 1280x with everything on save shadows. About the only time it gets jerky is huge furballs with 50 odd fighters and I think that's the CPU not the graphics card at fault (and still very playable). I'ld say you'ld be very happy with a 6800 or better, avoid the LE versions unless you're tight for cash.

Hope that helps!

Post by **CBJ** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 18:51

The general consensus at the moment seems to be that the 6600GT represents the best ratio of performance to price at the moment. Do try and get one with 256Mb RAM though, if you can, as the card will then last you a little longer. Alternatives, if you have a little more cash, are the 6800 standard model and the Radeon X800, standard or XL model, again all with 256Mb RAM if possible.

Scarecrow · Post by **Scarecrow** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 19:20

My 6800gt is only bottlenecked by my xp2400+ processor (2.01gig).

The 6800gt is starting to drop in price a bit and undoubtedly will drop some more as the 7 series shows up more on the market.

Hopefully, the new AMD 3500 build I'm working on will solve the processor bottleneck.

Valen68 · Post by **Valen68** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 20:46

Thanks everyone for the great input!! Sounds like I will be shopping around for that 6800!

Creston · Post by **Creston** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 21:30

CBJ wrote:The general consensus at the moment seems to be that the 6600GT represents the best ratio of performance to price at the moment. Do try and get one with 256Mb RAM though, if you can, as the card will then last you a little longer. Alternatives, if you have a little more cash, are the 6800 standard model and the Radeon X800, standard or XL model, again all with 256Mb RAM if possible.

I would have to disagree with the general consensus, and put the Radeon X800XL forth as best performance for the dollar. Unless you were talking strictly Gforce only

On the OP's rig though, I would go with a 6800, or even a 6800GT.

Creston

Post by **CBJ** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 21:42

Creston wrote:I would have to disagree with the general consensus, and put the Radeon X800XL forth as best performance for the dollar. Unless you were talking strictly Gforce only

You are not the first to say this, but I think there is a pricing issue relating to location. In the UK the X800XL costs around £200 compared to around £120 for a basic 6600GT. That is a pretty siginificant difference in price, and the X800XL would have to be more than a little bit quicker to justify the extra cost. I believe the prices are somewhat closer in the US, which might well tip the balance in favour of the X800XL for people in that part of the world.

Creston · Post by **Creston** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 21:48

CBJ wrote:
Creston wrote:I would have to disagree with the general consensus, and put the Radeon X800XL forth as best performance for the dollar. Unless you were talking strictly Gforce only
You are not the first to say this, but I think there is a pricing issue relating to location. In the UK the X800XL costs around £200 compared to around £120 for a basic 6600GT. That is a pretty siginificant difference in price, and the X800XL would have to be more than a little bit quicker to justify the extra cost. I believe the prices are somewhat closer in the US, which might well tip the balance in favour of the X800XL for people in that part of the world.

I decided to look up prices before going any further, and I have to admit that the 6600GT is a lot lower priced currently than I thought it would be, I thought it was still above 200 bucks. I stand corrected, for 150 bucks it's indeed awesome value.
The X800XL will beat it quite handily, but the cheapest I can find that currently is 269.

You, sir, are correct.

Creston

veelad · Post by **veelad** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 21:51

I am treating myself to a brand new power computer shortly

with X3 in mind.

so am watching this thread with interest, as i would want to try and get a card that is at least 3 months future proof

The 6800gt is starting to drop in price a bit and undoubtedly will drop some more as the 7 series shows up more on the market.

whats the 7 series about for the un technical amongst us, I have tried typing 7000gt in google and just get back usb scanners.

can anyone point me to a write up of a 7 series (whatever that may be) thanks.

The_Abyss · Post by **The_Abyss** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 22:47

The 7800 GT isn't out yet - next month.

The higher spec GTX model is the one out now (PCI-e only) - try http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphi ... index.html

Skeeter · Post by **Skeeter** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 23:05

Since this is gfx card related only more or less this really belongs in off topic forum.

Btw the 6800 cards can be had for about £150 if you shop in the right places in the UK. I myself was tempted to buy a 6800gt model for £80 off ebay

But really need hdd first so have to get that first.

The_Abyss · Post by **The_Abyss** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 23:09

Valen68 wrote:I am currently running a G-Force 5700 VE 256mb but thinking of upgrading to the 6000 series. Please share your performance with the G-Force 6000 series.

There are quite a few 6800 benchmarks towards the end of this thread

Scarecrow · Post by **Scarecrow** » Thu, 14. Jul 05, 23:45

http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.a ... P2-N525-AX

Ferd Harling · Post by **Ferd Harling** » Fri, 15. Jul 05, 01:43

A few months ago, when the nVidia 6800 GT was released, I got one. £290 then but the price should have droped by now. Anyway, great card & average over 100 FPS using the X2 benchmark.

junj.chan · Post by **junj.chan** » Fri, 15. Jul 05, 04:07

dare i say this? ati...
Unless you are playing on very high resolutions the difference between the 6800gt and the ultra wont be noticable. or you could always buy a radeon x800xt pe which can be overclocked to x850xt pe speeds (apparently, dont have one myself, yet)

SpamSLapper · Post by **SpamSLapper** » Fri, 15. Jul 05, 06:53

CBJ wrote:The general consensus at the moment seems to be that the 6600GT represents the best ratio of performance to price at the moment. Do try and get one with 256Mb RAM though, if you can, as the card will then last you a little longer. Alternatives, if you have a little more cash, are the 6800 standard model and the Radeon X800, standard or XL model, again all with 256Mb RAM if possible.

CBJ is trying to make sure you are ready for X3

Unfortunately, I believe the 6600GT is only available in 128Mb model. The 6600 is available in 128 and 256 Mb models, but is not as grunty as the 6600GT

junj.chan · Post by **junj.chan** » Fri, 15. Jul 05, 07:49

the best price:performance cards are te 6600gt and x800xl 256 for mid and high range respectively. the x800xl comes wtih 512 ram aswell

but i would just buy a x800xt instead...

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