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Posted by: Fatal05
Don't listen to Elmicker, he is a fanboi. The 7900gtx is not worth the money. If you must get an Nvidia, get the 7900gt. Its $200 cheaper, and performs about 90% as good as the GTX.
Well yeah, but then it's not uber, is it? you need the X!!!!! /sarcasm. yeah, he's right, the performace difference will be negligable for the price difference.
The x1900xt is not a POS by the way Elmicker, please don't be a fanboi.
i wouldn't know on this one, i haven't touched any of the x1 series. Especially since i payed £200 for an x800xt and it blew up within 30 seconds of entering my case because the fan didn't work; then the manufacturer saying, oh, it's not our fault, it passed the test! and the retailer saying; talk to the manufacturer!
Dual cores ARE good for gaming. An 3800 x2 performs just as well, if not better than the standard single core 3200. The difference is the extra 2.0ghz core on the 3800. And Dual cores WILL be moved into the norm of computing. If you buy a single core you are going technologically backwards.
I never said they weren't good, it's just the single cores will perform slightly better because only one or two games are optimised for multithreading and also, until Vista, windows won't support multithreading either, so there'll be no advantage until then.
Essentially; go for whatever the -blam!- you want; until the software catches up with it, it's all the same.