Questions about the new generation Videocards (X800pro or Geforce 6800 GT?)

9th November 2004, 18:40

I'll be buying a PC very soon (end of december), I heard Radeon made an outstanding reputation the last years and Nvidia was always one step behind Radeon.

I read some articels online and heard NVidia won this generation closely.. so I'll probably buy the Leadtek Geforce 6800 GT... though.. I'd like to give Radeon a chance because of all the good response I heard from their cards.

So would it be the best thing to do? buy the Geforce 6800 GT? (if your answer can influence by the question: are you going to overclock it? probably not.. never had experience with it and don't know anything about it.

jmke · 9th November 2004, 18:46

6800GT or X800Pro
both are good choices

9th November 2004, 18:52

Oh forget to mention.. I heard all of Geforce 6800 type's have a defected videoprocessor onboard? your cpu tempature % goes up to 90% if you see WMV HD, true?
I don't know if I'd like tu watch WMV HD but I'm certainly going to watch movies from high quality and I also will record high resolution movies with my TV-card.. so I don't know if I'll use it.

jmke · 9th November 2004, 19:08

it only affects WMV HD movies; it will increase CPU load, but any recent CPU (P4/A64/XP) can cope with that;

9th November 2004, 19:42

I'll be buying an Amd Athlon 3500+, my CPU will not have problems with WMV HD than?

jmke · 9th November 2004, 19:56

While NVIDIA now says HD WMV acceleration is only supported by the GeForce 6600-series graphics processing units, X-bit labs has found that at least on some drivers the HDTV acceleration works on the GeForce 6800 GT PCI Express graphics cards. AGP flavour of the GeForce 6800 GT did not provide HDTV hardware decoding on the same driver version.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...029125458.html

9th November 2004, 20:28

The 6600 will be less powerfull than the 6800 series but will support HD MWV?

jmke · 9th November 2004, 20:33

the 6600 IS less powerful but has a newer core revision which includes the WMV HD acceleration

9th November 2004, 20:48

Well.. if I can see WMV HD without cpu temperature problems with my Amd Athlon 3500+ there's no need for the 6600 series right?

jmke · 9th November 2004, 21:17

I can see WMV HD on P4 2.2ghz with R8500 AIW.. so..

9th November 2004, 18:40	#1
G33MD00D Posts: n/a	Questions about the new generation Videocards (X800pro or Geforce 6800 GT?) I'll be buying a PC very soon (end of december), I heard Radeon made an outstanding reputation the last years and Nvidia was always one step behind Radeon. I read some articels online and heard NVidia won this generation closely.. so I'll probably buy the Leadtek Geforce 6800 GT... though.. I'd like to give Radeon a chance because of all the good response I heard from their cards. So would it be the best thing to do? buy the Geforce 6800 GT? (if your answer can influence by the question: are you going to overclock it? probably not.. never had experience with it and don't know anything about it.

9th November 2004, 18:46	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	6800GT or X800Pro both are good choices __________________

9th November 2004, 19:08	#4
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	it only affects WMV HD movies; it will increase CPU load, but any recent CPU (P4/A64/XP) can cope with that; __________________

9th November 2004, 19:56	#6
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	While NVIDIA now says HD WMV acceleration is only supported by the GeForce 6600-series graphics processing units, X-bit labs has found that at least on some drivers the HDTV acceleration works on the GeForce 6800 GT PCI Express graphics cards. AGP flavour of the GeForce 6800 GT did not provide HDTV hardware decoding on the same driver version. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...029125458.html __________________

9th November 2004, 20:33	#8
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	the 6600 IS less powerful but has a newer core revision which includes the WMV HD acceleration __________________

9th November 2004, 18:52	#3
G33MD00D Posts: n/a	Oh forget to mention.. I heard all of Geforce 6800 type's have a defected videoprocessor onboard? your cpu tempature % goes up to 90% if you see WMV HD, true? I don't know if I'd like tu watch WMV HD but I'm certainly going to watch movies from high quality and I also will record high resolution movies with my TV-card.. so I don't know if I'll use it.

9th November 2004, 19:42	#5
G33MD00D Posts: n/a	I'll be buying an Amd Athlon 3500+, my CPU will not have problems with WMV HD than?

9th November 2004, 20:28	#7
G33MD00D Posts: n/a	The 6600 will be less powerfull than the 6800 series but will support HD MWV?

9th November 2004, 20:48	#9
G33MD00D Posts: n/a	Well.. if I can see WMV HD without cpu temperature problems with my Amd Athlon 3500+ there's no need for the 6600 series right?

9th November 2004, 21:17	#10
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,022	I can see WMV HD on P4 2.2ghz with R8500 AIW.. so.. __________________

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