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| 412536 | 2005-12-14 07:31:00 | Hi, After putting a new system together for my parents I was really taken by how awesome their LCD looks. My old CRT is nothing in comparasion. Anyway the point is I'm now looking at getting an LCD for myself but I'm unsure what to get (yet again) so any suggestions would be greatly apericated, I'm thinking 19" around $550 ish. Also I'm looking at getting a new graphics card as my old one won't be up to running a 19" LCD at its native 1280 by 1024 in games, any ideas once again would great. Whats everyones thoughts on the new radeon cards? Budget for the card would be about $500 but maybe more if the preformance is needed. I hope my long winded question isn't too picky. Thanks. |
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| 412537 | 2005-12-14 08:20:00 | I would go for an LCD with a response time of at least 12ms or less, as far as brand is concerned, I suggest a decent, known brand such as Polyview, Phillips, CMV or Sony... whichever you can afford. For the graphics card it depends what you are going to be using your PC for (gaming etc) Depending on the type of video bus you have (PCI Express or AGP) these may be good options. 1) Radeon X850 Pro (www.eoneonline.co.nz eo+In+PCI-E.html). The X850 Pro can also be soft modded to XT PE speeds and overclocks well. Have a read here (forums.guru3d.com) about the soft mod. 2) GeForce 6800 (www.eoneonline.co.nz) 3) Radeon X800XT 4) GeForce 6600GT 5) Radeon X800 Pro... which can be soft modded to XT speeds and is one hell of a good over-clocker. Have a read here (forums.guru3d.com) about the soft mod. I have a Radeon X800XT, I used to be a hardcore nVidia fan until I bought a GeForce FX5200... totally disillusioned after this purchase (it was somewhat an uninformed one) I've had the Radeon for nearly a year and I have not had any problems at all, it runs all my games (including F.E.A.R, Far Cry, Age Of Empires 3, HL2, Quake 4, and the entire Call Of Duty Series) On the whole I would have to give a big thumbs up for the Radeon Series, however the GeForce 6 series from nVidia is no slouchby any stretch of the imagination. PS... The cards are in random order and the numbering is no indication of the cards power at all. Hope that helps. cheers chiefnz |
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| 412538 | 2005-12-14 20:17:00 | Hey, thanks for the info. I should have said what the system use will be. It'll see quite a few games so I'm thinking an lcd with 8ms response time. Also I'm going to be going PCI-e for the graphics card, the soft mod is for the agp version only. The think that I dont like about the 800 series radeons is that they don't have shader model 3.0 which cold hold the card back from future games. Does anyone know what the difference is between the 6800GT and the 6800GS is, aside from about $200 and 5fps in benchmarks. 5fps just aren't worth $200 to me, maybe there is something that I'm missing in the cards specs. It seems that the 6800GS has fewer pixel pipelines that the GT, but has a higher defult core clock and the same memory clock |
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