I was wondering if it waas worth upgrading my graphics card. It's a evga 7600 gt, and was thinking about getting a 8600gt by bfg. Theirs a guy in my area who is selling one for 100. what do you guys think?

Quote: Originally Posted by bmwproboi05 I was wondering if it waas worth upgrading my graphics card. It's a evga 7600 gt, and was thinking about getting a 8600gt by bfg. Theirs a guy in my area who is selling one for 100. what do you guys think?

You're about to get a deluge of answers, and mine (apparently) is the first.

So one question: how much money do you want to spend to upgrade that graphics card? If you're willing to spend $100, are you willing to spend $180? Because you can get a new 3850 from ATi for that amount, and it blows the 8600 out of the water. Or, you can spend $220 for the 3870. Or about $250 for the new 8800GTs (if you can find them ... they're also running above price, but the 38xx's might be as well).

8600gt ... I wouldn't put $100 down for that, personally, due to the price/performance ratio when you spend a little bit more. On the other hand, if you're only willing to spend $100, then perhaps you should look in other areas. To quote directly from Anandtech:

Quote: Originally Posted by AnandTech.com The problem is that there is a huge performance gap between the 8600 GTS and the 8800 GTS 320MB. We also have multiple cases where NVIDIA's new offerings perform lower than similarly priced hardware from their own previous generation hardware. In almost every case, AMD's X1900 XT 256MB beats out the 8600 GTS. While this hardware is certainly being phased out, it is still available and offers much better price/performance. The bottom line is that the 8600 really doesn't offer what we would expect from a next generation midrange part. While on its own the 8600 series is not bad hardware, NVIDIA needs to rely on more than its feature set to sell its product. This is especially true when DX10 games are not abundant and fairly few people are even running an operating system which supports DX10.

The entirety of that article can be read here.


-godling

yeah i was willing to spend like 120 casue like if it cost ne more ill just buy a used 360 and play games on their... buh im not sure..

How much are HD3850's in the US? In the UK there the same price as 8600GT's and there loads quicker.

oh i also have a question on my videoc ard to tv its kinda not stable i think the word is... theirs uneven colors goes grey... is it casue my tv is a 5 pin svideo and my graphics card is like 7