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Originally Posted by GunnersMate
I bought a vanilla BFG 6800 w/128MB at Tiger Direct but it was DOA. I RMA'd it back to BFG and they sent me a 6800GT w/256MB!  I support this card 100% and recommend it to anyone if you can find it.
These are my reccomendations:
AGP systems
CPU < 2 GHz - Geforce 6600GT
CPU 2GHz-3GHz - Geforce 6800GS
CPU > 3GHz - Geforce 7800GS
PCI-X
CPU < 2GHz - Geforce 6600GT
CPU 2GHz-3GHz - Geforce 7600GT
CPU 3GHz-4GHz - Geforce 7800GT
CPU > 4GHz - Geforce 7900GTX |
Two quick things about this post:
1. It only represents the nVidia side of things, no ATi cards are listed. In most cases, the Radeon X1900XT and X1900XTX are faster than the nVidia cards.
2. A minor, but important mistake...PCI-X is
NOT the same as PCI-e. PCI-X is a bus usually found on servers and is a PCI bus that has been upclocked by 100MHz (i.e. 133MHz to PCI's 33). PCI-e, found in most modern desktops is an entirely different protocol.