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xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:34

I think I will be just going for an x1800 XT anyways. The price is the big seller plus from what I am reading in reviews the 7800 and the x1800 are roughly the same.

Paul11 · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:39

xknight2000 said:
I think I will be just going for an x1800 XT anyways. The price is the big seller plus from what I am reading in reviews the 7800 and the x1800 are roughly the same.

good choice..

ACESHIGH · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:40

xknight2000 said:
Thanks guys. Now the big decision of a nVidia 7800GT or a x1800 XT. £200 is my limit because I still have an Xbox360 to get at some stage and I dont want to be too skint.

Easy decision, considering the X1800XT is faster than the 7800GTX, which in turn is faster than the 7800GT.

Get the 256MB X1800XT

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:42

Is it not worth the extra for the 512?

ACESHIGH · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:52

Was offering you the cheaper alternative, but yes the X1800XT 512MB would be better at higher resolutions 1280x1024 or above & with AA/AF.
Also game engines will possibly use 512MB ram more often in the future.

pegasus1 · 11 Mar 2006 at 10:55

ACESHIGH said:
Was offering you the cheaper alternative, but yes the X1800XT 512MB would be better at higher resolutions 1280x1024 or above & with AA/AF.
Also game engines will possibly use 512MB ram more often in the future.

Only Quake 4 at the moment

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 11:02

Thanks guys. I gotta start selling things on eBay now to save up the money.

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 11:42

Just a quick question but will an ATI card work ok on an ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe PCI-Express Mainboard?

danswan · 11 Mar 2006 at 11:46

Yes, will work fine

charltonfan1 · 11 Mar 2006 at 11:54

Because your system will only have 1 RAM module, you wont be running dual channel which will hurt performance quite a bit.

You could perhaps swap it for 2x1GB PC3200 Sticks

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 13:34

Will having 1 sitck really make that much of a difference?

charltonfan1 · 11 Mar 2006 at 13:43

It wont make a big difference no. I've just read this which has put me straight on the matter: http://www.tcmagazine.info/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=128

xknight2000 · 11 Mar 2006 at 13:51

I just got all my invoices through the post today and it says that shipping date will be the 27th

. So sucks, I am dying to get my hands on this.

Thanks for the link charltonfan1, some interesting reading. I will maybe look to adding some more ram in future to maybe give it that extra boost.

Turbanation · 11 Mar 2006 at 19:12

I bet you can't wait now! :eek:

trojan698 · 11 Mar 2006 at 19:28

The 27th?! Shouldnt be too late to change the order! Swap the gfx card and perhaps the 1 x 2gb stick for a 2gb dual channel kit!

pegasus1 · 11 Mar 2006 at 19:33

trojan698 said:
The 27th?! Shouldnt be too late to change the order! Swap the gfx card and perhaps the 1 x 2gb stick for a 2gb dual channel kit!

Id change the Gfx but id keep the single 2 gig stick, the loss in performance is tiny but come 12 months time when Vista is out and people are starting to look at 4 gig as being an absolute must for gaming then he will be laughing.

xknight2000 · 12 Mar 2006 at 01:33

I will phone them on Monday rather than email them so I get an instant reply. Thanks for all the advice guys, its been a great help.

NightSt@lk3r · 12 Mar 2006 at 13:56

xknight2000 said:
I think I will be just going for an x1800 XT anyways. The price is the big seller plus from what I am reading in reviews the 7800 and the x1800 are roughly the same.

if your going to do that then i would change the motherboard to a crossfire board aswell otherwise in the future your gonna have to get a new motherboard to go crossfire or 2 new cards to go SLI

clv101 · 12 Mar 2006 at 14:07

xknight2000 said:
I think I will be just going for an x1800 XT anyways. The price is the big seller plus from what I am reading in reviews the 7800 and the x1800 are roughly the same.

Might it not be a good idea to actually wait until you've got the new PC, loaded the games and seen what it's like? Isn't it quite possible that the current setup will be fine? Whilst faster configurations do exist that doesn't mean you can't get a good game out of what you've got.

xknight2000 · 12 Mar 2006 at 14:23

Oh dont worry, I will be trying the setup first. I know I have a good system and despite having a pritty basic card there is two of them and with the 2gb of ram and dual 64bit cpu power I am hoping will give me what I need.

I would love system that can pull out the top preformance from games like FEAR etc.... but this system may give me what I need. In time I will definitly want to upgrade to an x1800 but that costs money, something I dont have a lot of at the moment, lol.

As I said before, I gotta see how all my eBay sales go first then I can see how much I have.