02-24-2005, 09:34 AM
6800 GT is a heck of a nice card... rather pricey though! I think it is overkill right now, but within a year I imagine some games could give it a run for the money on the highest settings. Ditto on most of that for the Radeon.
If I'm not mistaken, these cards draw heavily on the 12V rail, so if you are looking at power supply specs that is one to pay to attention to. If you do go for one of these top end video cards, the power supply upgrade may very well be a necessity.
It's hard to tell how many mobos will still be supporting AGP in 2 years. Who's got the magic 8 ball? Intel seems to be forcing PCI-E forward pretty quickly, but on the AMD side the PCI-E mobos are just starting to come out in the last month or two.
If I'm not mistaken, these cards draw heavily on the 12V rail, so if you are looking at power supply specs that is one to pay to attention to. If you do go for one of these top end video cards, the power supply upgrade may very well be a necessity.
It's hard to tell how many mobos will still be supporting AGP in 2 years. Who's got the magic 8 ball? Intel seems to be forcing PCI-E forward pretty quickly, but on the AMD side the PCI-E mobos are just starting to come out in the last month or two.