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?