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7900GTX or X1950XT

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I've narrowed my replacement to one of these...what do people think.
I've noticed that the X1950XT is getting harder to get hold of.
I'm looking at £117 for the GTX and about £135 for the Radeon.
Both are retail packages, BNIB from reputable web sources.....I could do with advice :)
 
Radeon can do AA and HDR, it has better image quality and by quite a bit, it scales better at higher resolutions and the X1950's failure rate is nowhere near that of the 7 series cards.

So yeah the 7900GTX :p lol :rolleyes:. Of course the X1950XT ;).
 
as stated before...the x1950xt beats the 7900 in image quality....but if you want faster framerates and plan on overclocking then the 7900GTX is the better buy...otherwise I would definitely go with the x1950xt
 
J.D said:
X1950's failure rate is nowhere near that of the 7 series cards
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afaik its only the 7900GT that had ridiculous failure rates, the other 7 series cards are as reliable as any other cards...

only reason I'd go for the 1950 would be for FSAA + HDR - the image quality difference is hard to distinguish when actually playing and the performance is pretty close overall between the 2 cards so it really comes down to which you prefer ATi or nVidia, I prefer nVidia myself so would go with the GTX, but if you like ATi better then go for the ATi... you can't really go wrong with either choice.
 
J.D said:
Radeon can do AA and HDR, it has better image quality and by quite a bit, it scales better at higher resolutions and the X1950's failure rate is nowhere near that of the 7 series cards.
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Pretty much what he said, to be honest. No contest.

Rroff said:
afaik its only the 7900GT that had ridiculous failure rates, the other 7 series cards are as reliable as any other cards...
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No the GTX was affected too, just to a much lower degree. Why do you think they rebadged it as the GTO with underclocked and lower voltage memory after a little while and sold it off much cheaper? :p

Image quality was easy to distinguish too, the 7 Series suffered issues with texture shimmering and all sorts.
 
You could get the OcUK ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail
This Week Only Offer = £79.89 inc vat

As cheap as 2nd hand card and still very quick for the price.
 
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