So I got a new video card, ATI Radeon x700 PRO for $150, didn't go all out because for $150 it was fine. What do you guys have?

And Uhhh, let me take advantage of these new smileys:
:bj: :inlove: :xyxwave: :uzi: :tightass:

An ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 8500DV (from the stone age) :o:

I'm running dual 256MB PCI-Express x16 NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX KO cards. Yes, I think it is serious overkill, and I doubt my computer will benefit much from the SLI, but I am an enthusiast when it comes to building computers.

BFG nVidia 6800 OC AGP 8X 128MB (with 16 pipes unlocked by Riva Turner) $170

I'll never afford (or am I willing to pay) the price of the Ultra High end cards. So, I stick to the mid-grade High end cards.

My other PC has a ATI 8500 which I’m still a proud owner of…it did and does it’s job without a hiccup.

My building style...heck, pretty much everything...is...

BANG FOR DA BUCK!!! :ylsuper:

I'm running dual 256MB PCI-Express x16 NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX KO cards. Yes, I think it is serious overkill, and I doubt my computer will benefit much from the SLI, but I am an enthusiast when it comes to building computers.

What's the noise like with both cards running? Must sound like a vacuum!

Sapphire Radeon x800Pro PCI-e @ 565MHz GPU, 585MHz Mem

I'm running dual 256MB PCI-Express x16 NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX KO cards. Yes, I think it is serious overkill, and I doubt my computer will benefit much from the SLI, but I am an enthusiast when it comes to building computers.

u my friend is my new god....

9800pro 128MB "built by ATi"... yea owns "powered by ATi"

ATI X800XL

We may see a dramatic change in the way video cards are used in the next few years as they're not really video cards anymore. They're graphics processing units with exceptionally fast floating point capability. In fact, there've been studies done that show offloading a processor's floating point operations to a video card caused extreme speedup in floating point operation.
The FPU's in a graphics card are so much more specialized when it comes to doing operations like FFT that they can do it several hundred times faster than your CPU.
We may see down the road that that overkill card could end up doing a bit more than it does now.

i have a geforce 6600 mobile on my laptop its pretty nice got 256mb i think. Runs Half Life 2 at full tilt on a widescreen at 1680x1050 at 40fps+. Im satisfied.

Sapphire 9800pro Ultimate Edition

ATI X800XL here too.

Lots have that x800(xl), I didn't have enough money to spend over $200 for one. Anyone have vga cooling? Any overclock theirs?

Nvidia 5800 Ultra 256MB
Coming up on 3 years old. About time to upgrade..

I OC mine... -_-;;

But, I have a Pro. I wanted to drop some dime on an x800 GTO2, but I decided it might be better to wait to see how Crossfire turns out.

anybody wanan donate one to me? i'll pay shipping...

i only got an old nvidia ti500
8(((

ATI x850 XL. :yesnod:

good ol 9800 pro, still runs most things fine.

What Video Card You Got?

I got yours. I snuck in and took it while you were out
:ylsuper: :fawk: Im serious go check :FIREdevil

Nvidia 6800GT

Nividia 6800 GT as well, some times overclocked to 370/1100

ATi 9800 pro...and I likey it. :evil_laug

6800gt Sli

Me too! I just recently got everything tweeked just how I want it.

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^^^

Nice. Tomorrow I begin my install of my 64 bit RedHat and I would like to see how that will go. I plan for a lot of tweaking over the weekend.

^^^

Nice. Tomorrow I begin my install of my 64 bit RedHat and I would like to see how that will go. I plan for a lot of tweaking over the weekend.



I had a few minor glitches with Elightenment(E16) but managed to get them all worked out over time.. I'm now looking at ver.E17 which they added a lot of goodies to. It took me awhile to get it all set-up the way I wanted but the end product was well worth the time. Good luck with Red Hat! I'll never go back to Windows.

Another screenshot
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Dual BFG nVidia 7800GTX in my main machine and a AIW 9800 Pro on my other main machine, the rest of my machines don't have cards worth mentioning :p

Though I am still proud of my original GeForce 256 in my Athlon 1300 box, bought when even the guys in the store hadn't heard about it :D

I have an ATI X850XT. Plays CS:S just fine.

I got yours. I snuck in and took it while you were out
:ylsuper: :fawk: Im serious go check :FIREdevil

...and you threw in a pbj sandwhich in its place! :mad:

damn i wondered wher i left that:D:

i only got an old nvidia ti500

This is a warning from the upgrade cop:

UPGRADE NOW, or or.....or.... :spank:

But, how much games do you play? If you don't play games that much...then keep it till it dies on you.

nvidia 6800 vanilla

^Want to add some flavor to that plane vanilla? lol

You can unlock your 12 pipe card (most of the time) to 16 pipes via a software program called NV Tuner, If I remember right.

i'm still rockin' a 9600 pro. i'm only an occasional gamer, so it fits my needs just fine.

damn i wondered wher i left that:D:

It's useless! I'm so overclocking it! :crying:

This is a warning from the upgrade cop:

UPGRADE NOW, or or.....or.... :spank:

But, how much games do you play? If you don't play games that much...then keep it till it dies on you.



i play lot of games... but i'm limited to what i can play now...

my box is an athlon 1900 too... sigh... had hd failure.. bought new hd...
thats been it.. got a free dvd burner...


my computer is the suck... it has to like warm up or something the first time i boot it up... and then it begins normal operation...

anybody got any spare cpu/boards/graphic cards they wanna gimme for very discounted price?

i'm still rockin' a 9600 pro. i'm only an occasional gamer, so it fits my needs just fine.
I got you beat by 100.

BOOOOYAAAAOOOOOO!!! :ylsuper: :p:

I rarely play computer games anymore, that is, since FORZA MOTORSPORTS CAME AROUND!!!!!

Now TOCA 3 is on the horizon. SOOOO HOT!!!11!!!1!!1!

anybody got any spare cpu/boards/graphic cards they wanna gimme for very discounted price?

Sorry friend...the backup stuff I have is really old.

From your card you can upgrade to a much stronger card for less than $85 bucks. I'm not sure if you have been away from the computer world...but I just sold my nVidia 5800 for $80 on eBay. The 5800 is WAY better than your card and wont break the bank.

It's doable...just takes effort and a little money.

BlueEyes...come back to the good side, PC's are the best!!!

LOL

Now that should get this thread into some arguments...

I've got some old parts... =T

Just got a bfg geforce 6800 ultra oc 512mb pci-e put in my machine at work. My home computer is very jealous.

What da? For work...why do you need such a card?

^Want to add some flavor to that plane vanilla? lol

You can unlock your 12 pipe card (most of the time) to 16 pipes via a software program called NV Tuner, If I remember right.


Is that possible with PCI-E? I thought that was only with AGP. I currently use coolbits to OC the memory/clock speeds.

^good question...hmmm, not sure...

my card......i have an x800xt pe ;). It's OCed to 560/580 :D:. It's being cooled by the ATI Silencer 4.

my p4 3.2e is also running insanely OCed as well ;). 3.2Ghz to 4Ghz :D:.

I'm a computer junkie :p. if you guys gotz questions....feel free to ask me :). if you guys live in the upland/rancho/claremont/ontario etc. area, come down to my work over at PC Club and i'll hook you guys up ;) :D:

this is from back in the day when i had my old 6800GT ;). too lazy to take a new screenie of my current set up. but if you guys don't believe me, i'll take a new screen shot :). the score there has since been broken, and when i had my 6800GT, the highest stable OC i was able to obtain was 427/1.17Ghz :D:

http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/3765/test7p44ghz6800gt4181160gr.jpg

You people and your good computers...Making the rest look bad. :(

Just think of it...as a little tech reminder, that your...

MMX 233Mhz CPU
4MB video card
4.3Gig HD
64MB Memory
15inch monitor

...is past it's prime.

LOL

PNY 6800 vanilla AGP unlocked from last years Black Friday at CompUSSR

Ok, I overclocked my video card (ati radeon x700 pro agp) and here are the results:

Stock: 425 core/432 memory

Overclocked: 445 core/460 memory

It crashed yesterday night after hours of CS:S, so I dropped down the core to 440 and I hope it'll stay stable at that. The memory can go all the way to 500, so I'll be making it higher.

I got stock cooling.

I'm thinking of volt modding my video card. I'm gonna have a project this weekend. :D:

Have fun with that :D

Adds like 10mhz or something, not bad.

Volt modding?

Adds like 10mhz or something, not bad.

not worth the risk really.... unless maybe if you're watercooled

Volt modding?

I think...

ATI RADEON 850XT PRO Stuck in New Orleans damnit! Better be there when i get back or there will be hell to pay.

OMFG! I'm so effing bored here at work! i want to go home already! somebody in the rancho/ontario/montclair/upland/chino area stop by my work and say wussup! i work at the pc club here across from the montclair plaza. it's 6pm, we close at 7pm. i'll hook you guys up if you guys need some PC parts :)

not worth the risk really.... unless maybe if you're watercooled
Water cooled. :D:

Also, if I don't get more than 40MHz out of volt modding my card, I'll be quite pissed.

umm...64 MB x300 Mobile or something like that

ATI Radeon 9800XT. Bought it from sum1 with the Zalman heatpipe and fan.

BFG 6800 GT OC - bought it so I could play Doom 3

lol.....and then you were dissapointed in the end result of Doom3 not being all that great, like everybody else huh? lol

What do you guys have?
ATI Radeon 9800 XT 256MB AGP

lol.....and then you were dissapointed in the end result of Doom3 not being all that great, like everybody else huh? lol

I actually enjoyed it to a certain degree.... I think everyone just expected too much. The game scared the crap out of me multiple times.

Any idea what the video card deal will be this year on Black Friday?

Black Friday?

http://www.bf2005.com/FAQ.php

Basically the best day of the year to shop for anything computer related locally. People camp out for hours (some come the night before) to get deals.... it's insane. Last year was a $200 6800 NU at CompUSA which at the time was unheard of. It's not just about computer equipment... but for me it is

Any idea what the video card deal will be this year on Black Friday?

i think it will be on the A64 x2 CPUs. AMD recently said that they will be dropping their prices on processors. maybe the x1800XTs ATI will be hard launched instead of paper launched. for the midrange market, i think the x800XLs and 6800GTs will drop in price a little more. the NDA is supposed to break on the 512Mb version of the 7800GTX card. leaked info says that they will go for about $650 (USD) MRSP price.

that's what i think at least.

I actually enjoyed Doom 3 a lot - still play it. I have to admit some disappointment, but I thought the graphics were awesome.

I actually enjoyed Doom 3 a lot - still play it. I have to admit some disappointment, but I thought the graphics were awesome.

i never finished doom3, lol. i ended up reformatting my machine (actually, i do it quite often) and i got too lazy to reinstall doom3, so i never finished the game =\.

i just got quake 4, but from what i hear, my ATI card will suffer. Since quake 4 is a "way it's meant to be played" game, if i still had my old 6800GT, it wouldn't be as bad to play quake 4 on it as it would be on my ATI card. i don't like to play games at anything less than 1600x1200 @75Hz running 4x/8x AA/AF, so this will probably be a first for me playing at lower specs

I got a GeForce 7800 GT, works pretty well with my Dual Core 64 3800+!!!!;)

and when it gets to slow, ill just SLI it!

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

Water cooled 9800 256MB pro flashed to an XT.
AMD 64 3400
2 Raptor 10,000 RPM (like the Renesis) 74GB :cool: love the Raptors fairly fast in a RAID 0 (understatement) can't remember benchmark numbers on the striped set but it is low 100 MB's per second.

Games are fairly non-existant on 2003 server I don't even have solitaire :Eyecrazy:

Just bought a eVGA GeForce 7800 GT (518)

should've given you guys first dibs on my old card...ATI Radeon 9800 pro 256 AGP...sold it on the 'bay since it was incompatible with my mobo..

I still have the Soltek K8TPro-939 mobo if someone is interested...PM me..

I went PCI-E..Asus A8N-Prem..

http://www.bf2005.com/FAQ.php

Basically the best day of the year to shop for anything computer related locally. People camp out for hours (some come the night before) to get deals.... it's insane. Last year was a $200 6800 NU at CompUSA which at the time was unheard of. It's not just about computer equipment... but for me it is
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Why didn't anyone tell me about this...lol, THANKS!

Now I know so I'll have to check out that link when I get home. Thanks!

OMFG! I'm so effing bored here at work! i want to go home already! somebody in the rancho/ontario/montclair/upland/chino area stop by my work and say wussup! i work at the pc club here across from the montclair plaza. it's 6pm, we close at 7pm. i'll hook you guys up if you guys need some PC parts :)

My computer does need a memory upgrade. What can you do for me?

I have dual Viper video cards with Scorpion graphic accelerators, 4 gig resident memory stack, codec enhancers, and Fusion flatscreen monitors driven by Demon SVGA duplexers.

My computer does need a memory upgrade. What can you do for me?

you live in so. cali? namley the most south west portion of san bernardino county? if yes, stop by my work tomorrow

Aww crap, I like way way far (Fl), but thanks anyways. :)