Best Video Card. Which would u get?

[mr. nails]

which of these would u get.. why?

BFG Geforce 7900GTX OC 512MB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143047)
or
Powercolor 1900XTX 512MB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814131003)

[Skillian]

The 1900XTX is generally a faster card, and cheaper too, so I'd say it was a no-brainer.

However I'd wait for the 7900 series. The 1900XTX will probably still be the faster card, but the prices promise to be very appealing.

edit: take a look at this article (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20060223090220.html). The 7900 series is coming in a couple of weeks I think.

[S!X]

Like skillian said and from looking at alot of benchmarks the X1900XTX pwns the 7800GTX, my friends cousin just got that BFG 7800GTX 512mb like 2 weeks ago. like over 1 grand *sigh*. There both great cards in general but id go with the ATI.

[abu_has_the_power]

i've decided to postpone my new computer to after october 2006. direct x 10 is coming out in october, and video cards with dx10 support will start surfacing. so neither

[silent h3ro]

i've decided to postpone my new computer to after october 2006. direct x 10 is coming out in october, and video cards with dx10 support will start surfacing. so neitherYep thats exactly what I'm doing. When Vista comes out AMD should support DDR2 and we will have DX10 cards. I'll wait to upgrade then.

[S!X]

DX10 :w00t:

[mr. nails]

The 1900XTX is generally a faster card, and cheaper too, so I'd say it was a no-brainer.

However I'd wait for the 7900 series. The 1900XTX will probably still be the faster card, but the prices promise to be very appealing.

edit: take a look at this article (http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20060223090220.html). The 7900 series is coming in a couple of weeks I think.
what is nvidia doing with that 7900? just from "those" specs, which i've never seen be4, thx, it still doesn't compare to the 1900xtx imo. the benches i've seen have the 1900xtx and the 7800gtx pretty much neck to neck, but the ati card wins over cuz of the 48 pixel shader processors.

[clocker]

i've decided to postpone my new computer to after october 2006. direct x 10 is coming out in october, and video cards with dx10 support will start surfacing. so neitherYep thats exactly what I'm doing. When Vista comes out AMD should support DDR2 and we will have DX10 cards. I'll wait to upgrade then.
I'm going to wait. (http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/02/21/a_look_at_amds_socket_am2_platform/)
Personally, I'm getting tired of spending big bucks on components only to see them rendered "obsolete" (if not discontinued altogether) within a few months.
I'm betting that a high end s939 system will remain competitive with AM2 for at least a year after M2's introduction.
This is not to mention the probability that Vista will be buggy eyecandy for the first few months after release anyway.
DX10?
What has been coded to actually take advantage of it yet?
How long will it take till it's utilized by anything I care about?

What about all the DRM issues that Vista will introduce...do I really want to replace all my PCs internals AND my LCD just to adhere to the new standards?

In a word, no.

[silent h3ro]

Yep thats exactly what I'm doing. When Vista comes out AMD should support DDR2 and we will have DX10 cards. I'll wait to upgrade then.
I'm going to wait. (http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/02/21/a_look_at_amds_socket_am2_platform/)
Personally, I'm getting tired of spending big bucks on components only to see them rendered "obsolete" (if not discontinued altogether) within a few months.
I'm betting that a high end s939 system will remain competitive with AM2 for at least a year after M2's introduction.
This is not to mention the probability that Vista will be buggy eyecandy for the first few months after release anyway.
DX10?
What has been coded to actually take advantage of it yet?
How long will it take till it's utilized by anything I care about?

What about all the DRM issues that Vista will introduce...do I really want to replace all my PCs internals AND my LCD just to adhere to the new standards?

In a word, no.
For Vista I heard that you will need a Direct X10 card to run the desktop in 3D... maybe I'm wrong there tho. I know they will release Halo 2 only for Vista so they can get as much sales as possible and Halo 2 will use the Direct X 10 engine. I hear you can go in 2D in Vista also if your card isn't that great and I'm sure you can go into 2D neways. I'm sure there will be an option in Windows to go into 2D. Vista does sound like it's just going to be eyecandy and some little new features but I'm going to upgrade neways just considering eventually you would need to later I'm sure. I heard about how you have to upgrade your monitor for Vista but I don't understand why...either way I would be really pissed because I just spent over $500 for a new LCD. No fucking way am I going to buy ANOTHER monitor.

[Tempestv]

friend of mine got 1000 extra pcmark 03 points running vista 64bit beta over xp media center.

[Virtualbody1234]

For Vista I heard that you will need a Direct X10 card to run the desktop in 3D... maybe I'm wrong there tho. I know they will release Halo 2 only for Vista so they can get as much sales as possible and Halo 2 will use the Direct X 10 engine. I hear you can go in 2D in Vista also if your card isn't that great and I'm sure you can go into 2D neways. I'm sure there will be an option in Windows to go into 2D. Vista does sound like it's just going to be eyecandy and some little new features but I'm going to upgrade neways just considering eventually you would need to later I'm sure. I heard about how you have to upgrade your monitor for Vista but I don't understand why...either way I would be really pissed because I just spent over $500 for a new LCD. No fucking way am I going to buy ANOTHER monitor.
The reason you have to buy a new monitor is because they're trying to protect video content from being copied. If you try to "capture" the signal between the video card output and the input of the monitor then the copy protection system cuts off the video. It won't playback video unless the proper closed loop is detected.

[Tempestv]

The reason you have to buy a new monitor is because they're trying to protect video content from being copied. If you try to "capture" the signal between the video card output and the input of the monitor then the copy protection system cuts off the video. It won't playback video unless the proper closed loop is detected.

Garbage either way, don't worry, before we can really get our hands on the tecnology to require this, I am willing to bet that someone will have figured out a way to make some sort of closed circuit mimicing device, everytime some company tries something stupid like that, it isn't long before a way around it is found.

[Formula1]

yeah a friend told me that microsoft coded vista so that movies will be very difficult to pirate. I sure as hell aint installing it. I'll probably install windows 64 bit instead... Hey VB is it worth getting windows 64 right now ?

[clocker]

friend of mine got 1000 extra pcmark 03 points running vista 64bit beta over xp media center.
Hell, you can pick up an extra 1000 points running Windows ME instead of Media Center.

Hey VB is it worth getting windows 64 right now
I am not VB (nor do I play him on TV) but I'll toss in my $.02...basically, no.
Unless you are running software designed to utilize the 64-bit extensions there is no performance increase.

[S!X]

There isnt much for drivers that are w64 compatible eaither so its basically useless for the time being.

[clocker]

The driver situation has gotten much better since I tried 64 bit XP several months ago.
Fifteen minutes of Googling and I found every driver necessary to feed Sprocket.

[mr. nails]

i'm thinking the 1900xtx is prob still the better bet over the newly starred 7900gtx, but others like the less wattage consumption and the quieter fan over performance...

[Oyster]

mr.nails those are quite some good specs on your comp.. dam if only i had the money and also 1900XTX is better in my opionion i've heard itss much cheper and has good speed as well.

[fkdup74]

I was just thinking.....
it would be funny if DX10 totally blows,
and all you goofy fuckers anticipating it have to wait for DX11

:lol:

Vista is gonna blow as well
we got some goofy "network specialist" at the office that wants to get everyone upgraded to Vista
~170 workstations, probably 90% of them running sub-1GHz CPUs, sub-512 MB RAM, and integrated gfx

I told him to go fuck himself :happy:

[mr. nails]

mr.nails those are quite some good specs on your comp..
thx, lots of OT to build that, but there are better machines here on these forums. i appreciate the compliment though. ;)


also 1900XTX is better in my opionion i've heard itss much cheper and has good speed as well.
the 1900xtx is anywhere from $50-$100 more than the nVidia counterpart, but is superior in it's hardware.


we got some goofy "network specialist" at the office that wants to get everyone upgraded to Vista...
why in the world would you want to upgrade an OS (@ work nonetheless) when it first cums out in the first place? it's gonna be buggy. retarded.

[Wolfmight]

I went from a ATI 9500Pro to a Nvidia 7800GT. 7800GT is at least 7-8x than the speed of the 9500pro. Runs all the latest games and everything. I really enjoy the HD-TV Support. I tried out new and old games on my HD TV and THEY LOOK FUCKIN AWESOME! GTA:III was like a whole new game, because the field of view was sooo much higher. Half-Life 2 PWNs on HD-TV.

If you have an HD-TV, make sure the card is HD compatible (more than likely will be with the latest cards).
Everything is wanting to watch/play my games again in HD. It literally resurrects the old ones too.

DVI connections all the way.

[silent h3ro]

Nice upgrade Wolfmight. I'm thinking about a 7900 in my new pc that im gonna build in a few months. Hoping they are gonna be cheap...er