AGP or PCI-E

[sven]

i was wondering, i've got £300 to spend on a gfx card should i go with the XFX 6800 Gs at £187 here or upgrade to a PCI-E Mobo.

My specs at the moment are XP64 3200 Winchester, MSi KT8 neo 2 Platinum Mobo, 1 GB (2x512) Pc4000 ultra platinum ram and a 9800 pro

Should i junk the mobo and GFX card and get Leadtek GeForce 7800GT Extreme Edition 2 and a >>> Mobo of your choice <<< recomendations please. Also i might have to purchase a new PSU coz i dont think the PSU i've got is ATX 2.0 compliant.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

PCi-E

get a good mobo for about £100, then get the x850xt for £150. Lets you upgrade further, the cards cost less for performance (the 6800GS ABSOLUTELY SUCKS ON THE AGP, THE CARD IS LOWER CLOCKED ALL OVER ETC THAN PCIE VERSIONS) and the x850xt is faster than the 6800gs pci-e anyway.

 

[ACESHIGH]

PCi-E

get a good mobo for about £100, then get the x850xt for £150. Lets you upgrade further, the cards cost less for performance (the 6800GS ABSOLUTELY SUCKS ON THE AGP, THE CARD IS LOWER CLOCKED ALL OVER ETC THAN PCIE VERSIONS) and the x850xt is faster than the 6800gs pci-e anyway.

Yes would have to agree with this.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

thanks, nice to have an agreement to my conclusion.

 

[peetee]

PCI-E!

 

[lemonkettaz]

lol PCIE!!

 

[lego]

Do you have any good clocks woth your current cpu, if so, theres going to be a 7800 GS AGP released in the next few weeks, it may be worth hanging on until a price for these have been confirmed.

Hopefully they wont be anymore than £250, you'll save a chunk of change and still have great performance to boot!