6800 PCI-E

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I'm getting a 5100 soon, and I'm ordering a GeForce 6800 PCI-E card to come with it.  Now, I hear that this is supposed to be a decent card, I've tried to find some articles on it, but I can't seem to.    It will be paired with a P4 HT 3.2ghz CPU and 1gb of RAM.  I'm just trying to make sure that I can run several programs at a time and play my games at the high settings. Message Edited by SemperFi10 on 07-15-2005 01:16 PM

morbidman · Answer

Yes, you can cut back to 3 if you want. Also, Doom 3 should work fine a 1024x768 on high, but don't expect full frame rates when you start turning effects like anti-aliasing on.

morbidman · Answer

Yes, I'm getting a similar setup. Although you will not be able to unlock the pipes on the vanilla 6800, you will be fine, even though you can cut back on the processor speed and save some money because it will not greatly affect games or running multiple applications. All the processors on the 5100 are 5x1 so you will be better off saving some money and waiting for the dual cores to come down in price.

SemperFi10 · Answer

So I can cut back to 3ghz on the processor?   And The 6800 will run multiple applications and games like Doom 3 on high settings? Message Edited by SemperFi10 on 07-15-2005 01:28 PM

morbidman · Answer

np:smileywink:

SemperFi10 · Answer

Thanks for the help. :)

herb366 · Answer

It's not the video card that determines whether you can run multiple applications. It's the processor and whether it has hyperthreading or dual core. If you want to read about the 6800 go to tomshardware or anandtech.

SemperFi10 · Answer

I've gone to tomshardware.  I can't figure out which 6800 is mine.  And this processor has HT.  Is that good?

herb366 · Answer

HT is good although some might argue otherwise. It makes Windows think it has two processors so multi-tasking is improved. Some single-threaded applications, like the vast majority of applications are, will actually run slower so some folks disable HT. The same thing happens with dual-core processors. Dual-core is useful for multi-tasking and video encoding. Who knows when applications will be taking advantage of dual-core. HT has been around three years.

morbidman · Answer

You have a vanilla 6800 with 256megs of memory.

SemperFi10 · Answer

Better then the old ATI9600 I have.

Don I · Answer

Semp, U stole my icon :smileysad: R/Don ID4400XP Home SP2Bios A06P4 2.8 GHz 400 FSB (Finally!!)1024MB RAMBFG 6200 OC 256 MB AGP

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