Nvidia 7900 part for AGP?  

I just got an amazing deal on a 7800 AGP CO Superclock and I really couldn't be happier.

It's going to give me AT LEAST another good year, if not more, out of my present setup. Night and day difference from my Radeon 9800 XT. Honestly.

I personally would be surprised if nVidia bothers with anything past these.

Look them up and you'll see the benchmarks are awfully darned good.

mwave.com had the best price legit that I'd seen. I'd seriously consider it.

Google EVGA 256-A8-N508 and read the benchmarks and reviews.

I also splurged and upgraded my soundcard to an X-Fi platinum. I didn't go any higher because I didn't feel the X-ram was worth the extra expense.

Heck, it's like I have a whole new system now. :)

Speaking just for myself, here was my mindset:

I know that come June or so, AMD is going to be going through yet another complete architecture change, going from socket 939 to AM2.

Intel is doing their thing. Vista is forthcoming, etc. etc. Shake and stir.

Bottom line for me was: The entire hardware market is in such a wild state of flux right now. My present hardware is pretty darned good and stable. I didn't need to rock the boat when $300 could put me over the top for any modern day game coming out for the forseeable future.

In a year or so? Vista will probably be out, some things will have settled out, and then we'll see see what's what.

It's a good option for the fence sitter, or if you have a really nice AGP rig and you want to ride out this craziness and not have to reinvent the wheel.

I figured: I easily have at least another really good year of mileage left on my hardware. Why not put it over the top and give it the swan song it deserves? I want to have the best now, within reason. Why wait? Why pay for something I don't need? There's nothing wrong with my present motherboard, so why pay to replace it? You know what I mean?

In your case, your present video card is still somewhat better than the 9800 XT I was running with. For YOU...it may very well not be a worthy enough upgrade. For me, it's a night and day difference and the best close to $300 I could spend right now.

Now you watch: My motherboard will kick the bucket on me in a month or two. :rolleyes: :p

I'm so tempted to do this. $750 shipped from Dell after rebate?

Here's my problem: I have a Samsung 213T. Great LCD. 4:3. As much as I'd love to go WS, the sad fact we all know is: WS support is unacceptably lacking in PC games right now. I really don't want to get into hacking my games and all this other stuff.

If WS support becomes common as dirt, and they offer patches on present games to enable support, I may feel more strongly about making this upgrade.

I love widescreen, and even given my caveat...man, I'm tempted.


A consideration you have to make if you plan on getting Vista and doing any HDTV off of your PC.

At that rate, I'd tell you to wait as long as you can stand it. Wait until Vista is actually out and you know what you're dealing with.

This time will also allow for more displays to hit the market and prices to drop.


Same as above.

Are you planning on taste testing either HD-DVD or BLu-Ray?

I'd save up and wait until you can go 1080p. You know you want it. ;)

Always the best choice. :)

It was going on last week. Not sure about now. Those things come and go...


I'm tempted. Believe me. I might consider it if I knew I could sell my Samsung 213T for a decent price.


Agreed. It shouldn't matter for "normal" PC use.


Pretty much on the same wavelength. :)

You can yourself a pretty killer 720p FP. Some of those three chip DLP FP's are unbelievable now, especially with the "dark chip" and so forth.

This would probably send this thread into the general HT area or something like that, but I guess a lot of this would have to depend on your overall budget.

Indeed.


Eh, Windows won't look that bad at that rez. It's a very small price to pay if the display covers every single other base for you.

If I'm reading you right, you seem to have a preference for LCD.

If you're sticking with front projection, and you want 720p, I reall would encourage you to also give DLP a very serious look as well.

I *highly* doubt you will see 7900 in AGP, the 7800GS was probably the last nVidia AGP card. Of course if AGP continues selling well, maybe nVidia will have to- I dunno. I do know that they don't want to make anymore due to costs and available resources. In their eyes, PCI-e is the future.

The reviews for 7900GTX 512 are starting to come out, and they look excellent so far. I just bought one (before the price gouging begins) and I'm getting rid of a bunch of other hardware in order to pay for it...

I think it's against the rules to post that kinda stuff, but feel free to PM me for more info on where I got it.

IMO there are still plenty of PC games that can go WS now and for those that don't just stretch it, computer gfx don't look as distorted as stretching a 4:3 movie to 16:9. I'd still go for it. I'm looking a 20" WS for $300 range using 1600x1050 or whatever that rez is, that is a good native resolution imo, not to high to bog my games down, not to low for jaggies etc. That 24" sounds nice though.

Yeah, the deal is I'm 18" from the screen and my desk isn't very large. My current is a 19" 4:3 and is plenty big, my laptop is a 15" WS 1600x1050 and that isn't all bad. Hey I pack 100" on the front projector HTPC, I got your size! :)

I'd probably go for the 24 inch WS when the time comes.




It's not inconceivable, although I do agree with the good doctor that I wouldn't want to place any bets at this point on probability.

Interestingly enough, EVGA has this 90 day policy where I can upgrade my card and simply pay the difference.

If a 7900 AGP option comes out, I'd have to see if it really offers anything very substantial over the 7800 Superclock I'm using right now, otherwise, in any event...I'm pretty happy! :)

I just adjusted my zoom. 108" biotch! :)

Oh crap! I'm heading over now to see when I got my 7800GT, will be close. Definately would pay dif. for 7900GT.

Nope 10/24, time flies.

The eVGA "step up program" is pretty cool. Where those traded in video cards end up, who knows...? :)

I was wondering the same thing!

Thanks to Oblivion, I am in the middle of a debate over whether it is worth it to upgrade from my current 6800GT to a 7800GS. I won't be doing a full-blown computer upgrade until sometime next winter, so a vid card upgrade is about the only thing I have to tide me over until then.

I guess I just haven't been able to find enough 6800GT v 7800GS talk to see if it would be a noticeable difference in Oblivion. The $300 is not an object if there is a noticeable difference (even if not huge, which I doubt it would be) in Oblivion.

Decisions, decisions ...

Thanks for the feedback, HeadRusch.

I tend to sacrifice framerate for visual quality in games like Oblivion, which means outdoors I hit 20fps max with my current settings. So, it sounds like the SC version may get me up to aorund 30fps, and may be worth it. Hmmm.

Hmmm, after a little more research, it looks like if I am willing to spend $100 more, I can just go ahead and get a Pci-E mobo + 7900GT, which I would think should give a decent performance/quality increase over my 6800GT. Seems like the extra $100 could be well worth it in terms of Oblivion. Curse you Oblivion, making upgrades so tempting :cool:

If your processor fits then that's what I'd do. I've been wanting to upgrade as well but my cpu won't fit in any PCI-E boards, and at 3.4ghz I'm not quite ready to retire it yet!

Fortunately it does, I currently have a Socket 939 processor. Basically, when I built my last PC, it was just before PCI-E boards started to hit the market. I would have liked to have waited, but circumstances (old PC go boom) forced a bit of an early upgrade.

Well, I think I shall go ahead with the new mobo/7900GT combo ... for $400, it seems like a nice upgrade to last me for the next 9+ months :)

I have plenty of life left in my AGP system, so I couldn't be more thrilled with my evga Geforece 7800 GS Superclock. I have it overclocked to about 480Mhz and 1.45 GHz and I really don't know how much more I could want. Oblivion is running great! :)