128 mb or 256 mb Vid Card?

[Tom Treutlein]

Well, I'm still waiting to get my new comp, and I happened to browse over the DeLL site again - now they have that same video card I wanted, plus a new one...

The Old:128MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) ATI Radeon™ X300 SE

The New"256MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia GeForce 6800

The problem is, the new one of $153 more. Is this worth it? Is it a big difference? I mean, it's double the memory, but in the DeLL descrip of the products:

The Radeon has: Controller Data Width of 128-bit and 64-bit on board memory data width.

The nVidia has: Controller DW of 256-bit and 256-bit on board memory data width.

I have no idea what the two data width options mean, but the nVidia seems to be way ahead of the other one.

 

[EnderJE]

No. It won't make the porn any better. What games are you playing T?

 

[eat big]

g forces used to be better now radeons surpass them. get a radeon

 

[Tom Treutlein]

Diablo II, Age Of Empires, all old SNES RPGs along with Genesis, GBA, N64, PSX (sometimes), and other consoles emulated (not new-generation). Yuri's Revenge (Command & Conquer game), Infantry (downloadable online game), Gunbound (also a downloadable online game), Worms World Party.

That's the gist of it. Planning to maybe buy Everquest or some MMORPG like Diablo. I get a kick out of those.

 

[CFZB]

if you can afford the better one and will utilize it .go for it.

 

[Dial_tone]

if you're going to play the very latest games - Doom3, Half-Life 2 - you'll want 256, otherwise no.

 

[EnderJE]

PW, it says that I have to spread karma before giving it to you...

 

[Tom Treutlein]

Well the thing is, I don't know if I will 'utilize' it. I don't know if it's necessary. The numbers sound good, but they can be deceiving.

 

[CFZB]

PW, it says that I have to spread karma before giving it to you...

ok

 

[Tom Treutlein]

DT, let's say I didn't have 256 for the latest games...

Would it run slower or anything? Or would it be horribly blocky (the graphics)? Or just...not optimal?

 

[CFZB]

if you're going to play the very latest games - Doom3, Half-Life 2 - you'll want 256, otherwise no.

hey dt did you see supacutes thread last night on the vid cam?

 

[juiceddreadlocks]

get one of those alienware computers with dual 256mb ones

 

[Tom Treutlein]

Slower?

 

[Tom Treutlein]

I just checked - Doom 3's vid card requirements are only 64 MB, so 128 should be able to run it perfectly, shouldn't it?

 

[CFZB]

I just checked - Doom 3's vid card requirements are only 64 MB, so 128 should be able to run it perfectly, shouldn't it?

in theory?sure..perfectly.

 

[AristotleBC]

Every post on this thread is bad except mine.

Is it the 6800 GT or plain 6800?

Either way it's better than the X300 SE. I'm getting a 6600 GT by Asus, (overclocked) and waiting until the x800's come down in price.

My system is:

3.4g P4 w/ HT
1 Gig Samsung PC4300
Diamond 9 80g (thinking of getting a Raptor since RAID isn't proving to be all that great)
16x DVD-rw
48x CD-rw

etc

 

[AristotleBC]

g forces used to be better now radeons surpass them. get a radeon

not so

 

[Dial_tone]

I just checked - Doom 3's vid card requirements are only 64 MB, so 128 should be able to run it perfectly, shouldn't it?

You need 256MB to use the high quality setting on Doom 3, period.

 

[c-sharp minor]

I only have a geforce 4 ti4400 and it runs half life 2 1024x768 with most settings turned to high without a stitch. No direct x 9 though.