Nvidia or Radeon

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Nvidea or Radeon

Nvidea
8
73%
Radeon
3
27%
 
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Maugrim_The_Reaper
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

I live dangerously, I upgraded my PC during January so I found myself with a high end PC (I cycle through motherboards and processors on a 3 year rotation). I bought an NVidia GeForce 8800GTX. Now I can sit back and watch it kick ass out of every game I own. It also (lucky me!) doubles as a radiator for my lab room. I actually save money on oil probably. ;) It is a power hog and it needs an attached fan (thankfully my model is quiet) but the heat output isn't really huge compared to a CPU.

Seriously though, if you're not a gaming fanatic with a ig budget and you're looking for a good price/performance ratio then the 7600 or above would do well. Up to January I was using a 6600GT and I found only Oblivion and to a lesser extent Medieval II gave it trouble even at 1024*768 resolutions. Even then they were playable. And that was with some ridiculously low level of Video RAM.

If you check the 8800 reviews you'll notice the GTX model is overpowered anyway - on many games its FPS levels out since the current generation of processors and bus speeds just can't get data to it fast enough (one of the reasons I like it since it offers a lot of future proofing). If I was not upgrading, I'd have waited 6 months but I needed my 6600 elsewhere.

By the way it's AMD not ATI these days ;).
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AKA Panama Jack wrote:
Obadiah wrote:currently im unsing a Gforce 5600(it seriously blows) but ive been eyeing 2...im kinda partial to nvidia myself but heres the options(im trying to keep to the 200 dollar budget)....if any of you guys know where i can find a better one than those please post it

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... u=P56-7828
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... &CatId=318

im going AGP because i dont have PCI express...which (by the way) whats up with that....it seems like thats the only thing you can find nowadays
I would avoid the 7600GS even though it has 512 meg of ram. The 7600GT has more pipelines, shaders, etc and faster DDR3 memory. The card I bought comes out much faster. In head to head tests the 7600GT with 256 meg of ram always came out faster than the 7600GS with 512 meg. BTW, if you can upgrade to a PCIE-16 motherboard do it. The graphic cards are cheaper and faster. :)
thats the thing...i cant upgrade my motherboard yet...i actually brought that same graphics card at sams club it said that it would fit into an agp....so i took it home and tried it out and ended up having to drive 30 minutes back to the store to tell them where they could put it after they complained about giving me a refund because i opened the box....i got my loot back though
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Post by feyd »

Maugrim_The_Reaper wrote:By the way it's AMD not ATI these days ;).
Until the merger is more baked in, they're separate companies to me. :)
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