Which High-End GPU Would You Buy this Fall?

[towely]

Just taking a little poll to gauge your guys' opinions on graphics cards. I am looking for a high end solution to compliment my conroe rig. Gaming at high rezzes and high details is important for me. Don't want to upgrade for at least six months, hopefully more. Like when Crysis comes out, maybe. (End of March, early April '07).

As anyone here who knows me, Oblivion is my game of choice atm. Leaning towards the x1900xt because of the value, but considering splurging on the 1950 to squeeze out a few extra frames with AA and HDR enabled. I tossed the current nVidia champs in there for fairness' sake.

As always, I love you guys <3

 

[raven_87]

Niether, I have an X1900XT thats going to suite me just fine until the next DX API and Vista.....

 

[pauldh]

I can't answer your question as it totally depends on pricing. I'd take any of them as an upgrade from my current card except the 7900GTX. Most likely it would take an incredible price to make me buy anything before seeing G80 vs. R600. But Say a $200 X1900XT, or $300 X1950XTX or sub $350 GX2, I'd jump on that. :roll:

If you are talking hypothetical, just pick one. I'd be hoping to find a bargain on the X1950XTX to get high fps and IQ, as well as the heatsink/fan. Since I use AA+HDR in Oblivion and sometimes farcry, not having that support is a personal turnoff for the GF7's, including the beastly GX2.

 

[towely]

I can't answer your question as it totally depends on pricing. I'd take any of them as an upgrade from my current card except the 7900GTX. Most likely it would take an incredible price to make me buy anything before seeing G80 vs. R600. But Say a $200 X1900XT, or $300 X1950XTX or sub $350 GX2, I'd jump on that. :roll:

If you are talking hypothetical, just pick one. I'd be hoping to find a bargain on the X1950XTX to get high fps and IQ, as well as the heatsink/fan. Since I use AA+HDR in Oblivion and sometimes farcry, not having that support is a personal turnoff for the GF7's, including the beastly GX2.

If someone put a gun to your head and made you buy one, which would you choose?

 

[pauldh]

That's where I was going when saying the X1950XTX. But if I could wrestle the gun aways and point it at him, I'd make him buy me two X1950XTX's.

 

[towely]

Hehe good plan, my friend

the x1950xtx looks like a pretty beefy card. I might have to get it just because my g/f has a x1900xt and, well, I can't let her wear the GPU pants in this relationship

 

[pauldh]

Yeah you should buy the better card to make up for her beating you in games.

 

[raven_87]

Your girl not only plays games but has an X1900XT?

Wow, why can't my girl be like yours :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

**and if she see's this...I swear I'm JK****

 

[niz]

I wouldn't buy any that you listed, I'd wait for the directX 10 compatable cards. I read the Nvidia one will be out i like 3 weeks anyway.

 

[towely]

Yeah, if you cant have skillz, you can at least have an excessive peice of gaming hardware.

Um... I don't think the nvidia dx10 cards will be out in 3 weeks. Earliest I've heard is October. Even then, I wouldn't be the first to jump on them. I don't really want the 9700 pro of DX10, if you catch my drift. I don't see much point in upgrading until there is actually dx10 software which likely wont be for several more months.

Anyway, if you HAD to choose one of them (because youre currently gaming on a pentium 200 with a 2mb ati rage vpu), what would it be?

 

[pauldh]

You know what, OC'ersUK has X1950XTX's on their site for preorder, but prices are £279.95. That's £100 over the X1900XT and £90 over the HIS iceQ X1900XT. 8O

500 of them arriving Sept 11th.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/X1950_Series.html

 

[mrmez]

IMHO... 7900GT gives ossum performance and great bizzang for ure bizzuck!
Go SLI


http://images.tomshardware.com/2006/08/23/060823_gpu_analysis_chart.jpg

 

[towely]

You know what, OC'ersUK has X1950XTX's on their site for preorder, but prices are £279.95. That's £100 over the X1900XT and £90 over the HIS iceQ X1900XT. 8O

500 of them arriving Sept 11th.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/X1950_Series.html

Looks like I'll have to pay a premium if I want to lord my new card over her head. Just gonna have to wait and see what the pricing/availability is like across the pond (in Canada, eh).

I would honestly get the x1900xt, but I already have a noise machine (aka a yappy dog) and a space heater. The heat pipes on the 1950 look too cool (pun intended) to turn down.

 

[t2couger]

i dont think the dx 10 cards will be out for at least a year fellas unless ya have some kind of proof otherwise get a current card dont bother waighting.

 

[Heyyou27]

None of the above; G80 will be out later this fall and guaranteed to outperform all of the said cards. Now the R600 will be a very competitive if not better core, although the wait should be a little longer.

 

[raven_87]

not-so-evolutionary deisgn of G80 @90nm

Although I dont want to turn this thread into another "what do you think" GPU thread. Seeing the new Nvidia HDMI GPU's @ 80nm.....you dont honestly think the G80 will be 90nm do you :?: :?: :?: :?:

 

[raven_87]

It's traditional for nVidia and ATi to test their mid-end cores on newer process first before apply them to latest high-end core. This should not be new to you.

New? Nope....

And all my latest sources have said G80 on 90nm. :roll:

Honestly the GPU market moves in less sever increments than the CPU LC.
Look recently....went from 130 to 110, to 90 now to 80nm.....

I'm not saying Nv can't get away with it, but it would be a foolish move imo.

 

[towely]

None of the above; G80 will be out later this fall and guaranteed to outperform all of the said cards. Now the R600 will be a very competitive if not better core, although the wait should be a little longer.

Keep waiting and pretty soon you'll be dead.

You can always sell your card and buy a new one.

Anyway, you are sitting pretty with a 7800 while I still use an anemic 6800u. Waiting is not an option for me.

Please don't turn this into another "lets wait for dx10" post. I think that topic has been flogged to death a hundred times over by now.

 

[Lathyl]

I felt I had to vote 7900 gtx as I just bought one but I am sure that any of these cards would be great, if you can afford it go with the 7950, that will definitely keep you goin till next year

 

[quantumsheep]

Yeah, if you cant have skillz, you can at least have an excessive peice of gaming hardware.

Um... I don't think the nvidia dx10 cards will be out in 3 weeks. Earliest I've heard is October. Even then, I wouldn't be the first to jump on them. I don't really want the 9700 pro of DX10, if you catch my drift. I don't see much point in upgrading until there is actually dx10 software which likely wont be for several more months.

Anyway, if you HAD to choose one of them (because youre currently gaming on a pentium 200 with a 2mb ati rage vpu), what would it be?

what you on about?!?! The 9700pro was a fantastic card! It was only around 5% slower than the 9800pro. A 9700pro is still a very usable card today!

 

[enforcerfx]

I would go with any of the cards selected there. I already have 2 7900GTXs in my system, and will hold me over until DX10 and vista. The dire need for people to upgrade right now is understandable, but just out of curiousity, why go all out and purchase a 5-550 dollar card anyway, when DX10 is coming close to the end of the year, and their price is gonna be even higher? Personally, i have low source of income at this point(damn arabs milking our cash for their gas) And I saved my pennies to build the system i have now.

 

[PX7800GT]

JUST 7950GX2 :twisted:
I wish i was rich enough to buy one...

 

[prozac26]

None, got my X1900GT for a reason. This will easily last me until I need a next-gen card/Vista.

 

[Eurasianman]

IMHO... 7900GT gives ossum performance and great bizzang for ure bizzuck!
Go SLI


http://images.tomshardware.com/2006/08/23/060823_gpu_analysis_chart.jpg

um, I told my friend to order a 7900GT and he's had nothing but problems. Also, if you check out websites, you'll see that a lot of 7900GTs have issues! However, I think eVGA has fixed it. Not sure about others. Don't go with BFG! My friend sent his card in and got a refurbished one back and still has problems! Stick with X1900XT although, I agree, SLI > Crossfire. Just give ATI a little bit more time. I mean, if they won Microsoft for XBOX360, they can't be doing that bad, right? :?:

 

[danizaken]

X1950XTX pwns all. Considering it's a further improvement to a classic "single core" card, it disses the 7950gx2.