What would be your advice?

[Warchief]

I'm planning to modernize my computer, I've made the list of things I want to buy; there's one thing I'm still unsure about...Which graphics card would you recommend? If you could, please post specific card model


I've no more than 500 $ to spend.

 

[cleeve]

X1900 XT, without reservation the best singular card money can buy.

 

[Lan]

You can get an x1900XT from newegg for under $500 right now, it is a decent card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102003

But what do you use your computer for? Games? 3D Apps like Maya, or others? And what is the rest of your computer stats?


Edit: Ah, took the words right out of my mouth I see. 😀

 

[RichPLS]

Or PowerColor X1900 XT for $439
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814131005

 

[Shad]

You can get an x1900XT from newegg for under $500 right now, it is a decent card.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102003

But what do you use your computer for? Games? 3D Apps like Maya, or others? And what is the rest of your computer stats?


Edit: Ah, took the words right out of my mouth I see. 😀

I would say that the X1900XT is a tad better then "decent".

 

[Warchief]

I use my computer mostly for games. Right now, I think I'll be buying:

--AMD Athlon 64 3200+ BOX (Socket 939) Manchester + Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra

---Corsair TwinX DDR 2x 1GB 400MHz C3 ( I supposed I would buy C2 but now that I will probably buy the x1900XT ...)

 

[Warchief]

Let's see...I can get those :

http://tw2005.giga-byte.com/VGA/Products/Products_GV-RX19T512VB-RH.htm
Radeon X1900XT Gigabyte 512MB VIVO / 2xDVI
http://www.sapphiretech.com/en/products/graphics_specifications.php?gpid=136
Radeon X1900XT Sapphire 512MB VIVO / 2xDVI Full BOX
http://www.asus.com.tw/products4.aspx?l1=2&l2=8&l3=264&model=1026&modelmenu=1
Radeon X1900XT Asus 512MB VIVO / 2xDVI
http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/vga/vga/pro_vga_detail.php?UID=723
Radeon X1900XT Microstar 512MB VIVO / 2xDVI

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

Isn't the Sapphire one a hands down win over the others ?
They are one of the better ATI GPU suppliers of cards IMHO.

Giga-byte (in a true non-biased world) would be a close 2nd though.

 

[Warchief]

Isn't the Sapphire one a hands down win over the others ?
They are one of the better ATI GPU suppliers of cards IMHO.

Giga-byte (in a true non-biased world) would be a close 2nd though.

That's great, considering the fact those are the cheapest among those

 

[timberwolf1]

Check out this list of the top 5 power graphics cards.

 

[RichPLS]

Don't ever put much weight in a review sposored by tigerdirect...
That site sucks... no info given... no facts... it is just this way why??? because the site author prefers it, nothing to do with performance or price.
BS

 

[cleeve]

Dude, an X1900 would eat all of the cards on that list for breakfast.

 

[Warchief]

Is there much difference between the XT and XTX? If it's significant I suppose I could save some money on the other parts...