The 6800gs is fairly cheap at newegg. It comes with 12 pixel shaders, but with rivatuner you can unlock the remaining 4 pipes for a total of 16 all for under 220.00$BadDevotions wrote:
Hi,
I've just done an upgrade and bought an ASRock Dual Sata II and an AMD 3700+ 939.
The motherboard takes 939 chips and has both an AGP and PCIE slots. Handy for the moment as I can't afford to upgrade my 6600GT (AGP).
So, for me I made the jump to 64bit but only needed to buy a chip and motherboard. I can then upgrade my video card when I want and have the flexibility of both AGP and PCIE. Oh and Bf2 runs sweeeet. 90 fps on 1024x768, all on medium + 2xAA with full draw distance
Hope this helps you.
Poll
PCI-E or AGP
| Pci-e | 76% | 76% - 46 | ||||
| Agp | 13% | 13% - 8 | ||||
| Psssht, it runs BF2 (just!) then keep it! | 10% | 10% - 6 | ||||
| Total: 60 | ||||||
save up for pci-e i have it and i am happy i did
brought me a whole new rig with it playing 1280*1024 settings @ highest and still get fps over 100
amd64 4000+ overclocked @ 3ghz
2gb ram
7800gtx overclocked @ 509/1.42
with x-fi soundcard
so just save up the money and buy pci later
brought me a whole new rig with it playing 1280*1024 settings @ highest and still get fps over 100
amd64 4000+ overclocked @ 3ghz
2gb ram
7800gtx overclocked @ 509/1.42
with x-fi soundcard
so just save up the money and buy pci later
No comparision.
Go PCI-E
Go PCI-E
I was in the same situation, but considering the 6600GT is only 180$ canadian and it handles BF2 quite nicely, I just bought it and i'll wait till my entire computer is out of date before coming into the PCI-E world.