7900GT replacement.

[wellibob]

Simple question, best value pci-e 7900GT beater. Cheaper the better, but has to out perform a 7900GT overclocked.

 

[Corasik]

A 8600GTS should match, and maybe out perform a 7900GT depending on how far the GT is 7900 is overclocked. It wont be a jaw dropping improvement, but a suitable 'budget' priced replacement.

If you can wait a until november, Nvidia will be releaseing a new high midend, (or mebee low high end) card which is rumored to be called the 8800GT. Its based on their new G92 GPU and should offer very similar performance to an 8800GTS, but slightly cheaper, and a lot more power efficient.

 

[mame]

well an x1950pro is slightly slower. An x1950xt is slightly faster but i'd say 2900pro for the win! BTW wasn't choosing ATI cards as such, just how it came out.

 

[wellibob]

I thought a 1950pro 512 meg was faster than a 7900GT overclocked !

 

[ACESHIGH]

I thought a 1950pro 512 meg was faster than a 7900GT overclocked !

Same here.

But as said above the best choice is the 2900Pro as even at stock it soundly beats the 7900GT, & they are known to overclock to 2900XT speeds wasily & are the best value cards out in the topend.

 

[wellibob]

ok, whats out that equals or just surpasses a 7900GT (bearing in mind how cheap a 7900GT can be had for)

 

[Rroff]

1950 pro should be 10-15% faster than a 7900GT...

Unfortunatly you aren't going to consistantly beat a well clocked 7900GT all the time with an 8600GTS - in some cases the 8600GTS pulls ahead but in others it falls behind...

Tbh I'd look at the 2900 Pro (and I dislike ATI) or up the money for an 8800GTS...

 

[ACESHIGH]

New would have to be X1950Pro, considering they are priced from £70.49 inc VAT on here.

 

[Cyber-Mav]

x1950pro is more of a downgrade from a 7900gt.

7900gt is good card, only way forwards is a 8800gts
best to wait for the 8800gt which is soon to be released.

 

[willhub]

8800GTS 320/640 is the only way to go.

 

[mame]

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/vga-charts/overall-all-games-fps,264.html?p=479,439

Thats comparing a 7900gt and an x1950pro 256mb. No 512mb on there. Remember that x1950pro's don't really overclock much/at all.

 

[J.D]

2900Pro or 8800GTS 640mb model. There are new cards coming to replace all current GTS's I think so if you can hold off a few weeks till more news emerges then that would be the best option for now.