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which is a better choice in the followin categories

Money (bang for the buck)
Actual gfx job

is SLi faster than Crossfire ? crossfire seems lame to me cuz u connect the cards externally thru a cable it seems slow but i dont kno the details
 
both crappy... at most you get 30% performace for 100% more cost... ill get 1 strong g-card than get 2 for only 30% performace gain. I love my sapphire x1900xtx(just broke 13.5k in 3dmark05 with 760 core and 870 mem, stock fan @ 100%). others are getting 14k and higher with 800 core and 900+ on the memory but they have water cooling.
 
damn pengwin you posting faster than me on thg on my first day 8O
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and to everyone esle

meh X1900 is way too much moolah for a 14 year old freshman im stickin with the 6800GS
 
Both suck. When you buy two cards, soon after there will be a single card better than those two you have. Dual GPU sucks. Rip off.
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And who's fault is that? Damn GFX companies releasing cards every 3 months.... wth lol. SLI would be a great upgrade path if it were still 12months + between GFX card generations but as it sits it is definately not worth it, and I should know I have SLI 😛
 
no becasue if u think about it it is totally worth it

i get 1 6800GS now

later when GS's ar eliek 100 bucks i buy anotehr thats gonna increase my preformance and it'll be cheaper than getting a brand spankin new card which was released at taht time
 
hmm

maybe

dunno maybe i should get ATi but when i think ATi i think..

-lame
-low quality
-bad workmanship

when i think Nvidia
-good quality
-good brand
-lifetime warranty
 
hmm

maybe

dunno maybe i should get ATi but when i think ATi i think..

-lame
-low quality
-bad workmanship

when i think Nvidia
-good quality
-good brand
-lifetime warranty
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hahaha
X1900xtx (Sapphire) I love My ATI
6600gt (XFX) I love My Nvidia

I luv em both... What Eva The Best Card is I will buy. That Being said... ATI Ownz Nvidia lost this round, The champ Got his Head Knocked Off! (And Humbled, You can get a 7900gtx512 for 499, Vs The Old Champ 7800gtx512 going for 650 retail and 750 if anyone had it)
 
sigh u guys are stupid

i said i think this did i say they were facts?

no

i kno the 1900 is the best card now

like i said
thats what comes to mind


u wont sway me i will still get Nvidia
 
Way to prove your point.

In single card performance the X1900 XTX beats the 7800GTX512.
In single card performance the X1800 XT beats the 7800GTX.
In single card performance the X1800 XL is about the same as the 7800GT, but has OpenEXR HDR +AA support.

I don't know what else to say.
 
OK OK dont turn this into another one of those fanboy posts, i hate those and they are really getting on my nerves. O and i had a questin, why is my
X850XT allowing me to use HDR cus i thought it didnt support it but when i go into the games, it has all of the settings set on high HDR, its confusing the shit outta me, could it be something to do with the drivers update??? anyway no more fanboy articles cus theyre gay, all i say is would you really rather have something from now or something comperable to that of ten years ago??? cus it will all preform the tasks about the same, so SHUT UP FANBOYS!!!
 
Go to Tiger Direct, they have everything at the same or bette prices than NEWEGG and they have everything, i think they have like X1800XT from 3 different manufacturers. Trust me ive bought from both.

X1800 XTs

WOW look at how many different X1900s ther are for sale, hehe, see.

X1900XTs
 
your only 14 :!:

shit, the way you helped me i thought you worked at some computer place, i'm 16 and have about a hundreth the software knowledge you do 😳
again, thanks for the sig help. :lol:
 
Way to prove your point.

In single card performance the X1900 XTX beats the 7800GTX512.
In single card performance the X1800 XT beats the 7800GTX.
In single card performance the X1800 XL is about the same as the 7800GT, but has OpenEXR HDR +AA support.

I don't know what else to say.
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I don't know what else to say.

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which is a better choice in the followin categories

Money (bang for the buck)
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No such thing with SLi nd Crossfire except the rare paper-launch exception like the GF7800GTX-512 where 2GTs SLi'ed were cheaper than a single and unavailable GTX-512. Other than that rare overpriced exception, both are colosal wastes of money unless you already know why you need it (those who do benifit most already know that they would want it [like kinney] and there's no need to explain it to them). People who are curious are usually far better served by a single card until they KNOW what they want, and then they can usually easily upgrade to that. Anyone starting out should just get the best single card they can get.

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In this case ATi's ability to work with higher fps with all the Bling turned on/up, is easily superior, especially with the ability to run OpenEXR-HDR with FSMSAA.

Looking at a few reviews you can see the large performance delta at high settings;

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_x1900_crossfire_performance/
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-x1900xt-crossfire.html

is SLi faster than Crossfire ? crossfire seems lame to me cuz u connect the cards externally thru a cable it seems slow but i dont kno the details
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So a dongle is more lame than a bridge? OK, whatever, I could see that, but it's semantics really.

hmm

maybe

dunno maybe i should get ATi but when i think ATi i think..

-lame
-low quality
-bad workmanship
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Hmm, not surprisingly, that's what people think of nV too, low quality IQ, bad workmanship in the PNY cards (nV's markee brand and maker of Quadros) see the number of threads from the past and present about issues, you'll see an equal number if you bother to be objective. Of course both have their good/bad. For every criticism of either I can bring the same from across the floor. And the lame comment is simply ignorant and childish.
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when i think Nvidia
-good quality
-good brand
-lifetime warranty
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Considering they don't make cards, then it's irrelevant. ATi warranty > nV's , their board partners however are different. And you may want to check the fine print because there is no lifetime warranty out there, despite calling it a "double-lifetime' warranty.

u wont sway me i will still get Nvidia
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Your steadfast position is because, as has already been mentioned, you're the embodiment of the word nVidiot, logic will not sway you from your blind loyalty.

You start a thread to defend your Fanboi camp, not to look for information, go troll somewhere else ya' knob.
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I love my Geforce 7800 GTs, but I know they are not the best out.
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Yeah but they were a good bang/buck, and even when the GF7800GTX-512 came out they beat all other single cards until the X1900XT came out, and even still it sometimes beats one of those depending on app.

So they're still a pretty good choice.
 
I love my Geforce 7800 GTs, but I know they are not the best out.
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Yeah but they were a good bang/buck, and even when the GF7800GTX-512 came out they beat all other single cards until the X1900XT came out, and even still it sometimes beats one of those depending on app.

So they're still a pretty good choice.

7800GTX 512 is still a ghost card here in the netherlands.. So there isn't really a choice imo.

As for Crossfire, Well i ordered my ASUS A8R32-MVP today + 170 Opty. I'll see how well it OC's =) All i know that Crossfire is not as mature as SLI, but sure does "go with the flow" in performance.
 
I haven't really seen too many benchmarks in which the X1900 XTX beats 7800GTs. Too many times people refer to the tom's F.E.A.R. benchmark tried to use softshadows with antialiasing, which the game does not support.

Although a single X1900 XT is a great deal and offers expandability, where two 7800GTs do not.
 
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