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512mb Gfx Card - recommendations

Alien18

Alien18

Alien18

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Hi All,

I'd very much appreciate your advice and thoughts.

I have an AMD Athlon64 3500+ Venice, 1gb dual channel RAM and a 20" Viewsonic WideScreen monitor.

About a month from now (when i get my redundancy money and get back from holiday), i'll be looking at getting a 512mb Graphics card.

I'll obviously be looking at what OCUK have on offer at the time, but if they don't anything i want in the offer I'd like to know what cards you suggest?

I'm looking at ATi but am not against getting an nVidia card and am looking to spend about £250 (give or take a bit).

Since nVidia have just bought out the 7950, are ATi about to release a newer chip than the X1900? Is there any point in getting a X1900 over a X1800?

The "HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)" card looks my best bet at the moment, what do you think?
 
dual2max said:
Maybe by the time you come back, the OCUK 7900GT will be available, get 2 for 512Mb in SLI....
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Erm that would most likely come to more then £250. From what I've read, SLI doesn't share the memory, just the cores.

Buying a single card is much better for improvement as if you've got a crossfire mobo, you'll still have a spare slot to upgrade into.

I'm not the best on GFX cards, but people on budgets like yours do keep getting recommended the X1800.
 
Yes.

PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC)

Then as you say, this is 512mb and under 250squid. A better choice.
 
Yeh, I've read that there's not much between the X1800 and X1900 for the price difference.

Unfortunately, I don't an SLi/Crossfire mobo. I'm not into gaming to the extent that I'd buy 2 gfx cards tbh. I just want my games to look nice enough and run smoothly when a lot of stuff happens on screen at once.
 
dual2max said:
Yes.

PowerColor ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-048-PC)

Then as you say, this is 512mb and under 250squid. A better choice.
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The HIS 512MB is about £40 cheaper than PC.
 
Depends what resolution you play at, if 1280x1024 then id got for the x1800, any higher id go for the x1900, as at higher resolutions the x1900 would be better, and you can get x1900's for only £241, so not much more than the x1800, in fact its cheaper than the PowerColor x1800 rofl. :)
 
Sapphire ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-112-SP)



<STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Price: £220.95 [size=-2] (£259.62 Including VAT at 17.5%)[/size]
 
Just got the saphire X1900XT and couldn't be any happier. Quite a bargain for the price if you ask me. Been loading all my games my 9800XT used to struggle with. COD2 and Fear runs superb and looks great too. ^_^
 
Alien18 said:
Is there much difference between the X1900XT and the X1900XT-X?
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Yes there is a difference lol, sorry loadsamoney :p .

The XT-X Has better clocking RAM From what ive read, but it certainly isnt worth the extra money..
 
TaKeN said:
Yes there is a difference lol, sorry loadsamoney :p .

The XT-X Has better clocking RAM From what ive read, but it certainly isnt worth the extra money..
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Yeah i know that, but its not worth it if the XT clocks to those speeds, which they do so save some money. :)
 
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