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[Darkwave]

Your priceless

I wondered How long it would be for you to start flaming and wanting to turn this into an ATI V NV thread.

If you even read my first post, you would know I am not red nor green and specifically even said I didn't want to turn this into a fan boy debate.

Why not be just happy for the guy?
He had X1900 he changed it for a cooler quieter card at no loss of performance.

You might want to go back a page, to the posts where I was saying that since he didn't feel comfortable making hardware mods with aftermarket cooling then I agree with his choice and am happy for him. I also congratulated him on his new card.

You questioned him in your first post calling it a downgrade.
Care to elaborate on why the x1900 is better?

ON second thoughts dont waiting for

"its because I can use AA and HDR at the same time"

He's not the first person to get rid of his x1900 in favour of the GTX and he won't be the last.

Good for him, but if you even read my posts (which you obviously didn't), you would see that my puzzlement with his "upgrade" was with the price.

The X1900XT-X will outperform it in most games by a few FPS, especially at high resolutions with AA etc. The GTX will pull ahead a bit in lower resolutions and some specific games, but again it's only a few FPS. If you don't believe me, there's benchmarks on AT, I am sure you know where that is.

The reason the X1900 is better is because that ^ performance difference is not enough to justify the bloated price-tag on the GTX, unless like the OP, you're really not confident about aftermarket cooling and voiding your warranty.

The only person I see trying to turn this into a red vs. green argument here is you.

Have fun with your new card mate SeanyK

Yeah, have fun with it. Oh wait, I already congratulated him because I'm not a fanboy and understand his decision as he has explained it.

Silly fanboys.

 

[Fulcrum]

Isnt the fan speed automatic, so its probably based on case and room temperature how loud it is

 

[easyrider]

Good for him, but if you even read my posts (which you obviously didn't), you would see that my puzzlement with his "upgrade" was with the price.

I paid £349 delivered.

Cheaper than some X1900XTX's and without having to buy a VF900 in the process.

I really don't see what's so puzzling here?

 

[Sparky]

If you 2 dont stop arguing you will spend the rest of the day in your room's!

 

[TechnoCorruption]

I think the question here is not which card will see him better but why XFX feel the need to market there cards with a gay looking dog on the packaging

 

[welshtom]

"its because I can use AA and HDR at the same time"

Dont bait people> lots of people caused this forum to be nearly shut down because of the petty arguement that ATI couldnt run sm3.0 six months ago.

Now ATI can do something nvidia cant and its turned on its head.

Get over the fact that ATI can do it, but dont use to be sarcastic/funny/witty.

its a fact end of. As long as everyones happy with their own purchases its fine.

This forum needs to be closed for a week to stop people from reducing every thread to this kind of crap

Tom

 

[Pulsedriver]

Hi folks,

Thanks for all the input folks, particularly the nice comments I hope I enjoy the card too

What I will say is;


I am not a fanboy of either card, they are both absolutely superb cards, and all it comes down to is personal preference, It was a spontanious, random decision I made, I noticed a GTX was in stock, I was planning on getting one before I got the XTX, but OCUK had that crazy prices week, so I ended up getting one.

I think its great everyone has such strong views on either card.

And as I said before, my opinions on noise will be someone elses gain because they will get an almost brand new 1900XTX for a cheaper price!

 

[Sparky]

Seany did you manage to get any comparative benches done yet?Going to be investing in 1 of the 2 cards you currently have and would be nice to get a unbiased opinion.

 

[easyrider]

Dont bait people> lots of people caused this forum to be nearly shut down because of the petty arguement that ATI couldnt run sm3.0 six months ago.

Now ATI can do something nvidia cant and its turned on its head.

Get over the fact that ATI can do it, but dont use to be sarcastic/funny/witty.

its a fact end of. As long as everyones happy with their own purchases its fine.

This forum needs to be closed for a week to stop people from reducing every thread to this kind of crap

Tom

This thread is not even about the x1900 its about the XFX GTX the op just purchased.

But again people just cant resist spouting off about the x1900 and why he downgraded etc....

I don't need to get over anything, AA and HDR is nothing special in my book and the OP's it seems.

I agree that if people are happy then thats fine its a shame others cant undertand that people will often choose the quieter cooler option and just leave them to it.

 

[Pulsedriver]

Im just about to start my install Just backing all the files up and stuff now for the new motherboard/GTX to be installed,

I will definately post benchies or any information people need ASAP.

 

[Sparky]

Nice 1 mate keep me posted.Do you play CSS or BF2?

 

[Pulsedriver]

Used to play them both a lot, havent played either for ages, I went to play CSS the other day, and couldnt get used to it.

But I WILL be playing BF2

 

[Combat squirrel]

And all was quiet and civilised until easyrider turned up (joke mate, joke! )

Agreed if the 7900 suits his needs better then should go for it, then can also see peoples views on the technically more powerful 1900xtx, to be fair its 2 sides of the balanced coin, there both awesome cards

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Yep both cards are on par performance wise, so its not a downgrade at all, enjoy it mate.

 

[Marshy]

Quoting huge images for a seven-word post makes the baby Jesus cry.

He's not crying any more though