Should I bother getting the 7800 GS?

[Freddie]

Brief System Specs

P4 2.4c Northwood @ 2.88Ghz
1Gb PC4000 Ram DDR500
MSI Neo2 MoBo
160 Gig IDE Hitchi Hard Drive
60 Gig Seagate IDE hard Drive
6600GT AGP

I built my computer over 3 years ago. It was built in an age were the Pentium 4 didn't suck and stomped all over it equivalent AMD rival by a mile (if you can remember the pre Prescott days that is).

At the time it didn’t occur to me that AGP was going to be replaced by the new PCI express and until January 06 I thought 2006 would be the year I would finally ditch my system and build a PCI express system instead.

Well that was the case until nvidia complicated the matter when the launched the 7800GS AGP. I’ve been looking at the reviews and it I feel I could get another 18 months out of my current setup if I brought this card. The card in question retails for around £210 or $300 US.

Has anyone brought this card or does anyone hold any opinions on it? Should I buy this card now or should I wait until August and fully upgrade?

[Incinerate_IV]

The 7800AGP isn't worth it at all, for the same price you can get the 20 pipe PCI-E 7800GT, I say save up, and go PCI-E.

Also a 6600GT is still a very decent mid range card.

[Jopo]

I bought the BFG OC'd version of this card about two weeks ago. I guess I'm just attached to my AGP board. I have roughly the same specs as you and I would recommend it.

I actually bought 2 of them. The 1st was pny version($329) which was falsly advertized as OC and I really was unimpressed with RTW performance. Far Cry and every other game I have it blazed through. I did'nt benchmark anything so don't ask.

Well, When I noticed the card was not OC'd like I thought it was and PNY customer service is pretty much unreachable. I returned it and got the BFG version for 20 dollars more.(on sale at bestbuy with $20 dollar gift card as a perk) This one is overclocked and I noticed a HUGE difference between the two cards. Especially on RTW. Its maxed out now and I'm happy with it. Come on Oblivion!

I agree the smarter thing would be to upgrade to PCIe, but I did not want to go through the hassle of rebuilding. Oh, I have an ASUS p4p800 MB and it was a tight fit. 2yrs more easy.

[Incinerate_IV]

You know you could just OC the PNY version to the BFG version your self... All 7800GTs are pretty much the same. I would have went with the cheapest one they got.

[Jopo]

The difference in customer service sold it for me. I called pny: recorded message. I could not even find contact info on thier webpage. All water under the bridge now. I'm happy with it, I can always make more money. peace.