Nvidia GeForce 6800 Ultra, King of the Hill

[CrazyCrusher]

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1708/

[Someone Stupid]

I'd wait for the R420 to be released. Quite a few rather knowledgable people in some forums are questioning the card and are hedging their bets with ATi with some good explanations. King now, definantly. Worth picking up? I wouldn't pick up either companies product if it was first until I see the competitions offering against it.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

See my comments here:

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=161144

Even if the R420 doesnt shape up to beat it, i think newer revisions of the NV40 will really be revolutionary, something which at present the 6800U doesnt really appear to be to me.

--Jakk:t

[CrazyCrusher]

I would have to agree with both of you on this one, its new to the market, with ATI soon to come out with there next gen cards I would allso wait and see how things Iron out, Nvidia did state that this card will not make leaps and bounds over DX8 cards because the Card itself is mostly taking advantage of DX9.

[scottluebke2003]

I feel sorry for those who drop $500 on a video card when they already own a 9800Pro. Heck, you can buy a great cpu/mobo/ram/video card for $500

[PacNW CE]

A fool and their money......:p

[CrazyCrusher]

Originally posted by scottluebke2003
I feel sorry for those who drop $500 on a video card when they already own a 9800Pro. Heck, you can buy a great cpu/mobo/ram/video card for $500

yep I would have to agree with you, esp when games dont need that kind of power right now eh.

[bblqj78]

Yep....but wouldnt it be good to run Far Cry and the coming monsters like HL2 and D3 at 1600x1200 with all settings at very high:D

[Someone Stupid]

Yes, it would be good. Just that it wouldn't be 500 dollars good. :)

[Bigjakkstaffa]

I'd have to buy a monitor that supports 1600x1200 first :p;)

--Jakk:t

[CrazyCrusher]

Originally posted by Bigjakkstaffa
I'd have to buy a monitor that supports 1600x1200 first :p;)

--Jakk:t
gezz never thought about, so the big buck would end up been a nice 750 :p

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Pft, no way, this machine isnt getting another penny spent on it for at least four years, if ever again

--Jakk:t

[bob05]

Originally posted by Someone Stupid
Quite a few rather knowledgable people in some forums are questioning the card and are hedging their bets with ATi with some good explanations.

What are some issues presented with the 6800?

[ComPooTer]

128mb 9800 pro here........not buying a new video card anytime soon, im gunna use this baby forever until they come out with 1 gig video cards with 90000000000000 pipelines :)

[Yoshi]

What about the XGI Valorie:p