2900XT or 640GTS?

[Tute]

Possibly, I mean those OcUK ones at £230 are a friggin' steal.

I don't want to really put too much over a ton to it though, I ain't made of money! *Glares at Jokester*

As for noise and heat, well, i'm "thinking" about a water cooling project in a Sugo, although nothing's 100% on that front.

Either way, I love ATi's driver support. I'm still not happy enough to chance an nVidia card in Vista.

 

[willhub]

Possibly, I mean those OcUK ones at £230 are a friggin' steal.

I don't want to really put too much over a ton to it though, I ain't made of money! *Glares at Jokester*

As for noise and heat, well, i'm "thinking" about a water cooling project in a Sugo, although nothing's 100% on that front.

Either way, I love ATi's driver support. I'm still not happy enough to chance an nVidia card in Vista.

I wish the HD2900XT's were buy one get one free tbh , then no one would care about the heat or noise lol.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTM1MSwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

hardocp updated thier review using the cats 7.5 now. and still the gts cards inc the 320mb is faster than the 2900.

 

[willhub]

I wish someone would swap there HD2900XT for my 8800GTS for a week

 

[TheRealDeal]

just out of interest how much is a x1900xtx worth second hand as i may sell
mine and upgrade to an hd2900xt. Its the HIS version.

 

[TheRealDeal]

Willhup i would just swap now ati have the track record look at what nvidia do
driver wise at the end of the day the least ya gonna get is a card that is
equal to what ya got. People go on about a little more noise and a little more
power to me i game with headset on and don't here my card and it was a noisy power hungry card in its day and still never bothered me as it was a
good card.

 

[Street]

just out of interest how much is a x1900xtx worth second hand

I sold my X1900XT 512MB for £110, think I got a good deal on that though as many have gone for a bit less!

 

[TheRealDeal]

Would hope an xtx would go for a bit more.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

since a 320mb 8800gts can now be had for around 135 quid its gonna be hard to get over 100 quid for any x1900 card.

 

[TheRealDeal]

Not brand new though and the xtx still a nice dx9 card. Think you would
be extremely lucky to get a 8800 gts 320mb for that price.

 

[bobert50]

hmmm where can you find a gts 320mb for £130? MM ?

 

[the_champ_101]

Will, this 2900 is yours whenever you want to swap your GTS, I know the performance of both cards, if you really like this card for whatever reason whether its future proofing, ATI driver support or CCC design, Vista or whatever
you know where I am.

 

[TheRealDeal]

Dreamland i would have thought or maybe a faulty card.

 

[TheRealDeal]

Champ you seem to think its got same performance as x1900xtx so i will swap ya lol as i know there ain't many issues with my card.

 

[easyrider]

What one just about to order! thanks lads!

The Better card is the 8800 GTS


Speed
power usage
noise
heat

ATI have screwed this release up.

Be smart and get the better 8800

 

[TheRealDeal]

Speed = wrong the rest you correct. When there is so much benchmarks
saying the hd2900xt speed is between gtx and gts i can't see why people
would say gts has more speed. Maybe with release drivers but now no.

 

[easyrider]

Speed = wrong the rest you correct.

Rubbish

I don't need a thug to educate me...

 

[TheRealDeal]

You obviously don't keep up to speed with things.

 

[TheRealDeal]

Lol thug just means i am new to the forums nothing more.

 

[Street]

Rubbish

I don't need a thug to educate me...

Have a look over at the 3D mark scores thread.. My 2900 is beating a few GTXs... Just over 13k with still a bit more to go.