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| Thread ID: 80022 | 2007-06-09 02:32:00 | new gfx card/pc | LOWTEC (7821) | Press F1 |
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| 557451 | 2007-06-16 10:36:00 | Well, you have a choice between ATI & Nvidia. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org :rolleyes: I don't know about you. It seems X2900XT is a choice for me, I know the driver is very new, and heat is very serious in summer time. 8600GT seems like a good choice, but no benchmarking yet for X2600 Pro. Have a look at reviews web, no much people can argue which will win over each other over X2900XT vs 8800 GTS 640MB, remember the driver is very fresh for X2900XT and it is being nearly 1/2 year already for 8800GTS driver. Have another thought again. If you heard about R700 going for 55nm processing is a lie, dunno who make that happen but Intel and Nvidia are not very happy about it. 55nm processing on GPU is not gonna happen. XBOX is using ATI GPU technology as well. Kinda weird but true. en.wikipedia.org "While the first Xbox's graphics processing unit was produced by NVIDIA, the Xbox 360 uses a chip designed by ATI called Xenos." Source from Wikipedia. enthusiast.hardocp.com This evaluation is the embodiment of what video card value is to the gamer. We have a video card, the 320 MB GeForce 8800 GTS at around $289 providing a noticeable gameplay experience advantage compared to the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT that costs $409. In some cases the performance gap is very wide (S.T.A.K.E.R. and BF 2142), in other games performance is closer (Oblivion, Lost Planet), but in most cases the 320 MB GeForce 8800 GTS is providing higher framerates than the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT sometimes equating to a better gaming experience. The 8800 GTS 320MB video card is $120 less expensive and provides a gaming experience that is equal to or superior to the HD 2900 XT. Not only that, but as our original evaluation proved the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT uses much more power than a GeForce 8800 GTS! The 8800 GTS is simply more efficient both in terms of power and performance. By the sounds of it there is a considerable difference between the 8800GTS and the 2900XT. You can't tell me that any driver can bridge the gap between the cards.... |
Jams (1051) | ||
| 557452 | 2007-06-16 10:37:00 | Jo, the 7900GS (at Ascent) is close to and upwards of $350 where as the 8600GT and 7600GS are a lot cheaper, the 7600GS being the cheapest, but this will give less performance compared to the 8600GT and the 8600GT is a cheap DX10 card so you can play DX10 capable games with the DX10 details and then get a better card when they are out | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 557453 | 2007-06-16 10:55:00 | I'm looking on pricespy. 7900gs, $250 | mejobloggs (264) | ||
| 557454 | 2007-06-16 11:19:00 | Well Ascent is not the cheapest... and the 2 7900GS I was looking at is around the $350 mark (possibly factory OCed I didn't look in detail at them) | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 557455 | 2007-06-16 20:28:00 | If the 'cheapest' ones you were looking at are Palit, yes they are factory overclocked. Factory clock speed for the 7800 GS is 450/660, and the Palit is (shuffles thru piles of paper on desk looking for specs.......bad words......) 450/1320 MHz. Its biggest drawback in reviews seems to be its size - it takes up 2 slots because of the heatsink, and most tech sites recommend leaving a 3rd free to give it a bit of heat dissipation room. So you need a PCI-e slot and a couple of adjacent PCI slots free. Don't know anything about the other cheap brand tho, but Winfast good good reviews |
annie (6010) | ||
| 557456 | 2007-06-16 20:55:00 | Annie, the Palit 7900GS is NOT OCed, the factory specs of 450/660 is the same as 450/1320... 1320 is the RAM data rate (or dual channel speed), so if you halve 1320 what do you get? 660 therefore it is NOT OCed. The ones I was basing my statements on were the Gigabyte GV-NX79G256DP-RH and Leadtek WinFast PX7900GS but (I just looked into the specs of them) the Gigabyte is OCed to 525/1440 and is $393.12 and the Leadtek is stock at 450/1320 and is $372.86 |
The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 557457 | 2007-06-16 21:04:00 | oh dear.... oh well, i tried! You can tell I don't really know what I'm doing here | annie (6010) | ||
| 557458 | 2007-06-16 22:11:00 | He he he, we are all at that point some time or another :p so no problems :) | The_End_Of_Reality (334) | ||
| 557459 | 2007-06-17 03:58:00 | I have an 8800 vid card and I think it's marvelous. Twice (at least) the performance of the 7950. I also have an extreme 6800 cpu. Certainly not worth the $1000 more than something almost as good. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 557460 | 2007-06-21 03:16:00 | finally got it down to either a gigabyte 8600gt or a Sapphire HD 2600 XT. now I would really like just a few replies from what you guys would choose between the two as I really cant decide, do I wait until next week when 2600 becomes available? or just buy a 8600 today? thanks for everyones responses so far |
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