Upgrading my gfx card: advice needed

[onelegout]

Hi all.
I currently have a 6600GT AGP card and it has treated me very well - no driver problems whatsoever, easy installation, pretty cheap etc. But I have only been playing counterstrike on it, which it has handled pretty well. However, with the release of the map 'militia' the card realy cannot handle such a graphics intensive map. I also want to get bf2 and play it online, and I dont feel that I can get the most out of the game with the 6600GT.

With this in mind, I have decided to save up some money and buy a better card. I am a poor student and only 16 with no job - my only income comes from selling my art (stencil graffiti on canvas/tshirt/peoples bedrooms etc. etc.) (if anyone is interested in a canvas or painted vinyl for cheap PM me! :D) so getting the money takes a while. Because of this I can only upgrade ever so often, so I am looking for a card which will play the latest games on high settings well.

I have been looking at the 7800GTX cards, and they seem to be in my price range, although I am currently on an AGP mobo but I think that my mum would buy me a new mobo if I bought the card!
Is this a good choice or are there better alternatives?
My system at the moment is in my sig!
Cheers
H

[Jetty_200]

umm....your sig says 9100...but anyways I would suggest that the 7800 GTX is a very nice card. even though i haven't yet had the pleasure of playing on it. find a card and post the one you wan to buy on here. you will get more help that way

[Omega]

go with the eVGA 7800GT OC. not the BFG GT OC, because the clocks are slower and it's 100$ more.

the eVGA 7800GT OC will run you just about 350$, and for the price/performance, it can't be beat. then you can either run two of 'em, or overclock it further. (if you want to. for BF2 and CSS, the 7800GT OC is more than enough GPU power.)


-Omega

[public_eyesore]

265 seems alot better than 350 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130256

[onelegout]

That sounds an awesome deal! Thanks!
Do you think that 2 of the EVGA 7800GT cards
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130256
in SLI would be better than one EVGA 7800GTX such as this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130237

I am going to go read up on SLI and see whats what as I have no experience in that area! But your help would be greatly appreciated!:)
Cheers
H

[MrSlacker]

I would wait. 7900 should come out pretty soon and 7800 prices will drop. If you followed prices, about a week ago there were huge sales for 7800GTs which mean new cards are just around the corner.

[onelegout]

you recon? well Im not going to be buying this until I have the money, which means I'll prolly have to wait until easter time!

[onelegout]

And so it begins; Onelegout's immense mission to get enough money for a 7800GTX! Keep an eye on my sig as it will be tracking my progress!
Peace
H

[onelegout]

Just to update - My mum agreed to loan me the money because we are visiting my bro in san diego next week for 2 weeks and price differences are so huge between the US and the UK, it would cost me 150% of what it costs in the US to buy the gfx card, mobo, and psu in england!
So I bought a 7900GTX from newegg.com and it has arrived at my brother's house along with my psu, mobo, and some other bits and peices that looked fun! :D (I needed a floppy drive to install the mobo drivers, so why not buy a floppy with integrated 7 in 1 card reader? :D

I also figured that I can now realy try to push my 6600GT as far as I can!
The stock clocks for it are
core: 500Mhz
Memory: 1.12Ghz

It is currently stable at
core: 591Mhz
Memory: 1.3Ghz

I can now step my resolution up in battlefield 2 to 1280x1024 for playing on my new 19" TFT monitor and it runs smoothly on the settings i used pre overclock. (Realy, Realy low settings haha!)

Peace
H