[Pc_Support] Re: 600GT or 6800LE?

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 21:47 -0400, Jason Boxman wrote:
> Although at that point you've sort of drifted off into the stratosphere.  But 
> then everyone has his own price point.  Mine was $155 2nd day air to my door.

Before the 6800GT, I had never spend more than $249 on a video card.

I spend $249 on a Retail 3dfx Voodoo3 3500TV 16MB AGP.
I also spend $224 on a Retail GeForce4 Ti4400 128MB AGPx4 w/ViVO.

I bought my AGP 6800GT DDR3 256MB last October for $399 with Doom3.
That's now in my wife's Athlon XP2600+ in her MicroATX Aspire X-QPack.

I bought my current PCIe x16 6800GT DDR3 256MB on March 31st for $359.
That's in my Athlon64 3200+ in my MicroATX Chenming 118.

My video card was literally 40% of my Athlon64 system's price.

> It's kind of an odd time to be buying computer peripherals.  If you're not 
> making the leap to PCIe, but just want a more recent video card, it seems 
> you're putting off an even larger capital expense by purchasing an AGP card 
> now.  So be it, I suppose.

Nah, not for $155 total.  For desktops, the GPU is now _the_ CPU.

Especially as FreeDesktop.ORG's Cario and Sun's Looking Glass now handle
the 2D as 3D, and if Microsoft _ever_ ships WGF 2.0 as planned about 18
months after Windows Hasta La Vista, it will have the same.


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