Dell Screws Up...my loss or my gain?

[shortbuscandidate]

I recently purchased a new PC from Dell. However when I received my system, I discovered (much to my surprise) that instead of having a ATI Radeon x800 SE 128MB x16 PCI Express, instead I was greeted with an NVidia Geforce 6800 256MB x16 PCI Express. The question is simple, should I call Dell and have them replace the card with the one I ordered or should I keep my mouth shut and keep the card with twice the RAM. This is not a question of morals, its a question of which is the better card. I was hoping maybe you guys could give me some solid advice (ie no ATI or Nvida fan boy crap). Thanks alot!

-Shortbus

 

[paparazi]

I think the boy "Done good"
From what I have read the X800SE is the cut down basic version of ATI's new flagship range, I think it has fewer pipelines and is a much slower card than both it's Pro and XT brothers.
On the otherhand all the 256mb 6800's I've seen and read about are full 16 pipeline monsters (128's being 12 pipelines with slower 2.2ns memory and CPU core) I think this applies to PCIE as well?
So either way the 6800 is appreciable faster and has the bonus of being endowed with another 128mb of DDR3.
Would be nice to know the exact Nvidia model memory and core speeds to determine model.
Martin


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[paparazi]

Was just going to add:
This "mistake" is likely just a case of giving you the next best thing (equivelent or better) as they probably just ran out of the card you specified.
Martin

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[pmonett]

I agree. A full 6800 instead of an x800 SE (Slow Edition) is definitely a good deal.

You can check out the details for yourself here. Basically, an X800 SE has only 8 pipelines and 6 vertex processors. The 6800 you got has more than double the power, and double the memory.

You got yourself one hot upgrade !

Pascal.

 

[tollyman]

I think the performance will be similar as the 256MB version of the x800se is better than the straight 6800 and just less than the 6800GT. However the Dell supplied version is only 128MB.

I have a dell 8400 P4 3.2GB, 1GB Memory, 2*160GB SATA in Raid 0 and x800se 128. My 3D Mark04 is 6900 run 3D Mark04 and check against mine for a guide.