bigyeah
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| BFG 6800gt OC?
I currently work at Best Buy and i get a great discount on BFG products. I am have a 2800+xp athlon, 1gig pc3200 XMS high performance corssair, and an a7n8x deluxe mobo. Will the BFG 6800gt OC be good with this system? I am not looking to spend much, with my discount i can get it for $275. Is this still considered a good card? I am getting into World of Warcraft, and i want to start playing BF2 and CS:S. I will most likely upgrade after ps3 comes out also, so will this card hold me over until then? |
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Viper007Bond
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| "Good card", lol. It's a kickass card! 
I run BF2 at 1600x1200 with almost eveything on high (mind you I have 2 gigs of RAM, you'll have to run medium textures).
Here's a helpful link: »www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.···2195&p=5
That article is from September though, so the new x850 series and GeForce 7 series aren't listed. Both would be at the top of the list though.
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Chemop
join:2001-11-12
Stroudsburg, PA
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said by bigyeah  :I currently work at Best Buy and i get a great discount on BFG products. I am have a 2800+xp athlon, 1gig pc3200 XMS high performance corssair, and an a7n8x deluxe mobo. Will the BFG 6800gt OC be good with this system? I am not looking to spend much, with my discount i can get it for $275. Is this still considered a good card? I am getting into World of Warcraft, and i want to start playing BF2 and CS:S. I will most likely upgrade after ps3 comes out also, so will this card hold me over until then? I have an AMD 2500XP oc'ed to 3200 with a gig of ram. I am using an MSI mobo and I have the BFG 6800GT OC and it works great with it. You shouldn't have any problems. You could overclock your processor a bit by raising the FSB to 200mhz. |
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bigyeah
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| said by Chemop :said by bigyeah :I currently work at Best Buy and i get a great discount on BFG products. I am have a 2800+xp athlon, 1gig pc3200 XMS high performance corssair, and an a7n8x deluxe mobo. Will the BFG 6800gt OC be good with this system? I am not looking to spend much, with my discount i can get it for $275. Is this still considered a good card? I am getting into World of Warcraft, and i want to start playing BF2 and CS:S. I will most likely upgrade after ps3 comes out also, so will this card hold me over until then? I have an AMD 2500XP oc'ed to 3200 with a gig of ram. I am using an MSI mobo and I have the BFG 6800GT OC and it works great with it. You shouldn't have any problems. You could overclock your processor a bit by raising the FSB to 200mhz. There is no place in my Bios to make the FSB 200mhz. I can make the CPU speed 200mhz, but that doesn't let my computer boot up, it boots up into safe mode bios. |
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Gordo74
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»graphics.tomshardware.com/graphi···dex.html |
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RedReign
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| Doubt his socket A mobo has PCI Express. Here are the AGP charts.
»graphics.tomshardware.com/graphi···dex.html |
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bigyeah
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| Right, i have an AGP 8x slot. |
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DownLow
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I have the card as well, I have it OC'd to 429x1.11. Kick Ass. I have good cooling in my case and temps never get above 60c! What type of power do you have...they suggest over 350watts in the minimum for the card.
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bigyeah
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| said by DownLow :I have the card as well, I have it OC'd to 429x1.11. Kick Ass. I have good cooling in my case and temps never get above 60c! What type of power do you have...they suggest over 350watts in the minimum for the card. I think 420watts. It comes oc'ed to ultra specs correct? |
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DownLow
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Long Island | The BFG GTOC comes at 370x1.0, the BFG ultra OC comes in at 425x1.1 - not sure what the plain ultra comes in at.
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Viper007Bond
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| Plain Ultras are in the 400's and 11__ something or even 12__ I think.
So no, a GT OC is not even close to Ultra speeds, but I have got mine up to nearly Ultra speeds (around 415/1150).
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DownLow
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| Read my post..I am above ultra speeds!!! BFG's OverClocked Ultra is at 425x1.1. I am above that (although only modestly- 429x1.11.
I have run it at 435x1.2 but seems a bit unstable in games. Never even breaks 65 temp-wise, but it doesn't play well in both CS:S or BF2 in my situation.
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i had the exact same set up except i had an athlon t bird 1.4 i used the 6800 on it and it was sick....good performance but slow load times...
btw i work at bby too...#549 Customer Services Supervisor
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Nagrom Nniuq
join:2002-11-19
Springfield, OR | reply to bigyeah
Awesome cards for sure. I run 2 of 'em in SLi in my system. They are... as several people have said before... KICK ASS! |
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Viper007Bond
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said by DownLow :Read my post..I am above ultra speeds!!! BFG's OverClocked Ultra is at 425x1.1. I am above that (although only modestly- 429x1.11. I have run it at 435x1.2 but seems a bit unstable in games. Never even breaks 65 temp-wise, but it doesn't play well in both CS:S or BF2 in my situation. Odd. If I go any higher, I get massive amounts of artifacts and I'm only around 60C max, usually 55.
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