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I am building a new computer for myself to play games and whatever else I get around to doing. The only part I haven't decided on yet is the graphics card. I'll give you the other specs so you know what else is going on.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+
Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe
2GB OCZ Titanium Edition (yes TMH, the kind you like)
2x 36GB WD Raptors
250GB SATA/300 Hitachi
Creative Labs X-Fi
2x Lite-On Dual-Layer DVD/RW

I was leaning towards a nice eVGA 7900GT I found for around $320 but I don't know if I want to go that route or get an X1800XT or another ATi card. Do you have guys haev any opinions on the two? I'm not gonna step into the SLi/Crossfire zone yet, although as you can see by my motherboard choice I am planning on it in the future. Oh, and on that note I can switch to a crossfire board if I end up with an ATi card. Let me know.

*EDIT* Here is a link to the eVGA card I was looking at. 7900GT Link

[Edited on 5/30/2006]

  • 05.30.2006 12:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

the 7900gt is a fine card.

  • 05.30.2006 1:00 PM PDT
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As static said, the 7900GT is an awesome card. I second that.

  • 05.30.2006 1:05 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

Posted by: OmniosSpartan
7900GT for sure, but go with an XFX card, casue they come super over clocked form the factory, thus giving you better performance.


the EVGA he is citing is clocked faster than any of the XFX cards...

  • 05.30.2006 1:36 PM PDT
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7900gt, duh

  • 05.30.2006 1:39 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

i am guessing you didnt even look at the link he posted?

Chipset
Chipset Manufacturer NVIDIA
GPU Geforce 7900GT
Core clock 580MHz
PixelPipelines 24
Memory
Memory Clock 1580MHz
Memory Size 256MB
Memory Interface 256-bit
Memory Type GDDR3

  • 05.30.2006 1:46 PM PDT
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Thanks guys thats what I was thinking I just didnt know if anyone had used one of the new ATi cards. I have a nVidia 5950 Ultra and a Radeon 9800XT, which are both rather old. I've read the benchmarks but they can never do a card justice.

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Posted by: OmniosSpartan
7900GT for sure, but go with an XFX card, casue they come super over clocked form the factory, thus giving you better performance.


yea if you call super overclocked 10-20mhz

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I would reccomend getting a Radeon All in Wonder if you ever plan on getting a 360 for Halo 3. If you get one of those and a Media Center OEM OS, then you can stream audio and video and pix to a 360 and record video off of a TV or console.

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you dont need an all in wonder, those things are overpriced pieces of crap. Theyre terrible for gaming

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get the geforce4 mx 4000 (jk)

  • 05.30.2006 7:46 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

The XFX XXX is 150MHz over the standard clock, not 500MHz.

  • 05.30.2006 7:57 PM PDT

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Posted by: Iggwilv

*hands Kim a crowbar*
Here you will need this to help you get your foot out of the back of your throat, looks llike its in there pretty deep. And what is that on your face? Egg?! *hands Kim a washcloth*

the 7900gtx doesnt run at 200Mhz...

  • 05.30.2006 8:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: OmniosSpartan
I said it 500MHz over Nvidia's clock speed if you bought it straight from them -_-


No its definately not 500mhz over nvidias clock speeds. They dont even market their cards under their own name(unless they own xfx), ATI does though. They send the designs off to third party companies to make the cards (asus, leadtek, bfg, msi, ect....). ATI also has thrid party card makers.

The highest mem frequency for the 79000GTX is made by eVGA and its 1760mhz. The lowest is 1600, so at most its 160mhz more (and theyre made by different manufacturers with a $150 difference)

edit - links dont work. Both are xfx 7900GTX's on tigerdirect.com

the 1st card costs $505 and has a mem frequency of 1700mhz, and the 2nd one costs $460 and has a mem frequncy of 1630. Youre paying $45 for a 70mhz overclock. I'd hardly call that an overclock, especially for memory. I have my x800XL OC'd from 960mhz to 1140mhz on the stock heatsink and I didnt pay anything extra. For $45 I'd expect at least a 200mhz OC. Why buy that card when you can OC yourself?


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  • 05.30.2006 9:58 PM PDT