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~£150 X1900GT or X1800XT

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I'm thinking of possibly upgrading to a Conroe and am undecided on which graphics card to get.

I currently have a Leadtek 6800GT that is louder than a jet plane and would really love something much quieter. Would also like to go the ATI route for once as I have always gone nVidia.

I've got ~£150 to spend, and am undecided on a X1900GT or X1800XT, what do you guys think, or should I just get something completely different(nVidia...)?
 
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If you can find a 7900GTO for 150 then definately. Otherwise a 1900GT is a good buy, and will leave you some left over money. Or you could wait for the X1950Pro that's coming out soon, if OcUK stock them.
 
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Both cards are good buys.
The X1900GT gets best performance in games like Oblivion (shader intensive).
Generally though the X1800XT is the faster card.

If you can up it to £170 the X1900XT 256MB is the best buy. :)
 
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X1800XT 256 is faster than the X1900GT. Faster stock and even more so overclocked. I didn't play one game where the X1900GT was faster and that even includes Oblivion.

The top performing 2 cards for the money are

GTO 7900 512
X1800XT 256

GTO is the card to get if you can afford it
 
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I may get accused of a bit of fanboism here, but I'd go for the X1900GT myself (I have two :p)

Especially the HIS version. Mad clocking card. Mine overclocks all the way to standard X1900 XTX speeds (thats 675/775 from 575/600) even though the memory is 1.4ns (rated to 700mhz). Of course, ymmv, but I kept pushing this card....

Overall i managed to get to 700/800 :eek: flat with 1.45v to GPU and STOCK on the RAM. I benched the card in 3DMark06 and it hit 5700 with a pants (compared to conroe) PenD 805 @ 3.66ghz.

I probably could have gone even further, as my testing wasn't showing any real limits at this speed. After benching, I went and played FEAR for 4 hours solid.

Thats a heck of a card :D

PS Tomshardware has updated VGA charts, so go have a look at their graphs for some interesting comparisons.
 
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Arthalen said:
I may get accused of a bit of fanboism here, but I'd go for the X1900GT myself (I have two :p)

Especially the HIS version. Mad clocking card. Mine overclocks all the way to standard X1900 XTX speeds (thats 675/775 from 575/600) even though the memory is 1.4ns (rated to 700mhz). Of course, ymmv, but I kept pushing this card....

Overall i managed to get to 700/800 :eek: flat with 1.45v to GPU and STOCK on the RAM. I benched the card in 3DMark06 and it hit 5700 with a pants (compared to conroe) PenD 805 @ 3.66ghz.

I probably could have gone even further, as my testing wasn't showing any real limits at this speed. After benching, I went and played FEAR for 4 hours solid.

Thats a heck of a card :D

PS Tomshardware has updated VGA charts, so go have a look at their graphs for some interesting comparisons.

Nice clocks. My 4 Sapphire X1900GT's were very poor OC's and would not even reach XT speeds.
 
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I think the credit has to go to the HIS cooler on the thing - its massive, shrouded and well designed.

I did of course remove it and get rid of the gloop that came on the card - AS5 everytime for me :D
 
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Arthalen said:
I may get accused of a bit of fanboism here, but I'd go for the X1900GT myself (I have two :p)

Especially the HIS version. Mad clocking card. Mine overclocks all the way to standard X1900 XTX speeds (thats 675/775 from 575/600) even though the memory is 1.4ns (rated to 700mhz). Of course, ymmv, but I kept pushing this card....

Overall i managed to get to 700/800 :eek: flat with 1.45v to GPU and STOCK on the RAM. I benched the card in 3DMark06 and it hit 5700 with a pants (compared to conroe) PenD 805 @ 3.66ghz.

I probably could have gone even further, as my testing wasn't showing any real limits at this speed. After benching, I went and played FEAR for 4 hours solid.

Thats a heck of a card :D

PS Tomshardware has updated VGA charts, so go have a look at their graphs for some interesting comparisons.
Nice one.
 
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