Video Card

[Quietus]

I need a new one. Any Suggestions?

[Polaris]

whatcha wanna do?
how much ya wanna spend?

[Quietus]

Game.

~$2-300?

[Lt_Omega]

X800 XL at $300 or less is a good bet.

[Fragman]

Quietus were you live us euro or ca if you live us http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Manufactory=&PropertyCodeValue=679%3A14425&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=0&PropertyCodeValue=0&description=&MinPrice=&MaxPrice=&SubCategory=48&Submit=Property
if you have a pcie slot then it will be cheap agp cards cost more now because there is less of the new one coming out in agp

[allied56]

you know what i need a new one to, i prefer geforce cards, so which one is the best out, uner say 200 pounds (about 350 dollars)

[Quietus]

Well, all I've really used in the past is nvidia products. Before I asked I was looking at : http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=317665 .

I think I'm sorta leaning towards the X800 XL now that I'm looking into them though.

[Lt_Omega]

A 6600 GT is pretty good in the USD 200 market.

Although for USD 50 more you do get more bang for the buck with an X800 XL but be careful, some products out there are Dual DVI without a regular D-Sub Monitor Output.

[Clouku]

geforce 6600GT seems good, i only got a geforce 6600 but thats cause i got it very cheap, 30 quid...sumthin like...58 dollors?

[Polaris]

ATI ftw
its just better. there's nothing more to it

[allied56]

your wrong there im afraid

[Clouku]

yep, nvidia work better, i prefer it

[Polaris]

in my experience, i have always found ATI to be superior
also, in benchmark tests, ATI has been known not to implement as many graphic features as nVidia, but what it does implement, it beats nVidia on, across the board
not to mention newer models of nVidia cards have been known to "cheat" on benchmark tests by not rendering all the polygons

[Lucid Angel]

Have to pass on some good experience I've had... bought a 6600gt a few days ago and it's the bollux! ;)

[Clouku]

ehhh, i aint one to care...my geforce 6600 was very cheap ^__^
*pets it*
precious...and black too =P

[Lt_Omega]

If you wanna buy a graphics card to handle the Unreal 3.0 engine. The X800 XL would be the one to get.

BTW, is your system AGP or PCIe Quietus?

[Quietus]

Can you define bollux? :)

[Lucid Angel]

It's the tits :)

[Blazej]

What card do you have now? AGP?

[Xcellsi0r]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007W5L82/ref=ase_interactiveda34-21/202-6882542-4401454

That's the link to the X800XL card, it looks damn good.
ot bad price either. I'll get that when I can. If link is broken, go to google. type x800xl amazon, you'll get it then.

[mOle]

X850XT PE 256mb do you need it?

[Lt_Omega]

*Bashes Mole on the head and takes his Vid Card.

[Xcellsi0r]

Abducts mole, ha ha it's mine, MINE MWUHAHAHAHAAAA

[Polaris]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007W5L82/ref=ase_interactiveda34-21/202-6882542-4401454

That's the link to the X800XL card, it looks damn good.
ot bad price either. I'll get that when I can. If link is broken, go to google. type x800xl amazon, you'll get it then.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102509
newegg is better if youre in teh US

i would also get the ATI manufactured card... they just seem better, although i dont have any hard stats on that yet

[Fragman]

sapphire is the best way to go they make all ati offical boards and they are the best for the most part because they have kickass ram

[Papa Smurf]

are we all forgetting that the new 7800GTX came outlast week nvida 4TW

WOOOT 40% better than the 6800ultra!!!!!!!!

afraid it rips all the ATI cards apart

ATI cards might get better frame rates but they achieve this but reducing pixelation and texturing rates, ie the graphics are poorer looking, which to me is the whole point of a high end graphics card, either ATI or Nvidia FPS will be easily good enough on almost any of todays games, if they are not then you probably have one of two problems, your CPU is a piece of shit and thats limiting the performance of your system (this is becoming more of a problem as high end cards now exced the abilties of all CPU's barring AMD's FX range (until muticores come out of course), or you should of spent that little bit extra and got more DDR3 memory on the card. At the end of the day if you are going to have a high end card and what high end performance you MUST have a high end CPU otherwise its pointless other than for bragging rights (which are always good)

a quick comparision between the new 7800GTX and the old 6800ultra

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/23/g70_3.png

also this is not the high end card they are not releasing that yet.

[Fragman]

shader mark is stupid because it will not be a 40% increase in games because of cpu limitations

[Fragman]

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2451&p=12
http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2451&p=13
http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2451&p=9

and the most cpu dependant game ever see the fps not much of a difference is there
http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2451&p=17

[Lt_Omega]

The AquaMark3 bencher is what I use for my benchies.

Almost every newly release ATi Driver shows an improvement there (no doubt its optimizations at play)

PCMark 05 would be more of a challenge.