GeForce FX 5900 Ultra...Manufacturers

[OBCENEIKON]

I am going to be purchasing the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra card in the very near future. My question is, which company should I go with? I purchased the GeForce TI 4600 when it came out, the manufacturer I went with on this card was PNY because they had a lifetime warranty. I soon found out why they had that warranty. That card has been replaced 4 times and is broken agian. I did a search on the internet and found alot of people had the same problem with PNY. They used a cheap brand of memory on thier cards, which made them not last very long. PNY still offers this warranty for the FX 5900 Ultra, and I am assuming they learned from thier mistake and are now using a better quality of memory. Dont hold me to that though. Well before I shelled out $500 to $600 I wanted to get a few opinions on this. My three manufacturers I have been looking at are MSI, Gainward, and *sigh* PNY.

Asus A7N8X - Deluxe
1.5 Gigabytes Corsair Low Latency PC3200 DDR Memory
GeForce FX 5600 128 Megabytes DDR

 

[Caimbeul]

Without being a devotee to either manufacturer, I would recomend the 9800pro over the 5900ultra as I believe it offers better performance (pls bear in mind the performance gap is marginal and swings both ways). HOWEVER that said, I see you have a 5600....I would wait till the end of the year/early next year and get one of the new NV 4X or ATI R4xx series (after much debate this is what i have decided to do).A good performance leap is likely over current high end cards. Your system is ample as it is, HL2 & DOOM3 are now delayed till god knows when, only Deus Ex 2 appears to be on schedule....dont waste youre money when newer cards are just around the corner.


<i>"We have always been here." - Ambassador Koch, Babylon 5
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<b>XP2100+, 1Gb RAM, ASUS A7N8X, PNY 64Mb Ti4200.

 

[OBCENEIKON]

Well, the problem is, is that I have recently stumbled across enough "extra" money to get a new card. The only game that I am really into is EverQuest. My FX 5600 is a pretty good card for running the game execpt for the spell effects. Thats when I get alot of lag. My friend has the 9800 pro and also plays EQ. Dont like how well that card performs with that game. My 5600 performs better. It could also be our system differences though. But, I know for sure that the nVIDIA card works well with my system and EverQuest. Also, with that said, I am trying to get my system running in tip-top shape for EQ2 which will be launched soon (supposedly). I would rather wait and get the NV4, but I cannot be sure that I will have the cash for the new card when it comes out...

Asus A7N8X - Deluxe
AMD XP 3000+
1.5 Gigabytes Corsair Low Latency PC3200 DDR Memory
GeForce FX 5600 128 Megabytes DDR

 

[Caimbeul]

Well, if you have the cash and dont mind spending it in light of the newer cards on the horizon then go for it. its such a small diference between the cards. I have seen EQ2 in action and whatever the developers were running it on (i presume a 9800pro or 5900ultra was doing ok but wasnt running great either - but no way to know what res they were running etc so...)if youre having no probs with Nvidia then stick with them (going to ATI will require a rebuild for best results - groan) I have personally had no probs with my PNY even though I have abused the card in many ways and a lifetime warranty is great. ASUS and Creative are good the gainward card is supposed to be really good too plus it looks cool, but is HIDEOUSLY over priced. the choice as they say....is yours.

<i>"We have always been here." - Ambassador Koch, Babylon 5
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<b>XP2100+, 1Gb RAM, ASUS A7N8X, PNY 64Mb Ti4200.

 

[OBCENEIKON]

Thanx for the reply, I am so far more leaning toward the gainward or the PNY. The gainward does offer a 1 year manufacturers warranty, but if Im not mistaken PNY offers a trade in thing...cant remember for sure if that was PNY. But if you are having no probs with your PNY, maybe they have fixed thier whole "cheap memory" problem. Well, we have it down to two card instead of three now. Thanx for the help

Asus A7N8X - Deluxe
AMD XP 3000+
1.5 Gigabytes Corsair Low Latency PC3200 DDR Memory
GeForce FX 5600 128 Megabytes DDR

 

[Willamette_sucks]

LOL!!!!!

Your 5600 performs better than his 9800 in EQ?
*IF* that is truly the case, its not because of the graphics card! Its because of other involved factors!

Maybe hes running the game at a higher res or higher detail settings than you, or is using anti-aliasing or anisotropic filtering!

What kind of 5600 do you have? 5600, 5600 Ultra, 5600 Ultra rev. 2 (runs at 400/600)... the 5600 non-ultra sucks balls dude, even the ultra rev. 1 isnt that great. Believe it or not, your TI4600 (when working) is better than a 5600.

If you have a 5600 non-ultra, by all means, upgrade. But get a 9800 Pro 128, save $150, have a kick-ass card, and then get a card next year.

"Mice eat cheese." - Modest Mouse

"Every Day is the Right Day." -Pink Floyd

 

[SHARKMEAT]

I had the FX5900 Ultra from PNY and it had the fast memory on it with lifetime warranty and it was a nice card,but I would keep what you got till the next batch come out and see what happens(put ye money in the bank so it want burn you pocket ),But one thing for sure if the new PCI-Xpress fomat dosen't emprove the memory bandwidth path it want matter what they come out with.How I hate to agree with Willamette Suck the GF4600 would be faster than a reg FX5600,and I also had the ATI 9800 pro and as Willamette-Suck said about your friends system settings had to be set to high for the game,or a bad system configuration and a bad need for a defrag to come down to a 5600 or even the fx5600 ultra level of performance.But I don't no why people buy these high end cards and think they can juice them up to run everthing at high detail it,s not going to have a smooth game play,to many factors involved here far as bottle necks for the ram to travel down a 4 or 8 lane road,then run into a 2 lane like on a sunday drive on the enterstate highway network.

TREAD SLOWLY IN DANGEROUS WATERS

 

[daddywags214]

He's probably running EQ on a PIII 850 and wondering why his 9800pro is giving him such crappy performance...! LOL

These days, no matter what company you like, be it <b>nVidia, ATi, or whatever,</b> no matter how logical your reasons, you're labeled an <b>idiot</b> or a <b>fanboy</b>, or <b>both.</b>

 

[Unit01]

ASUS, Creative, MSI, Abit, Gainward. Those i know. Don't remember all

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