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ONE OR TWO CARDS

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I have about £400 pounds to spend on a graphics card.
It will be going on a powerful system. If all goes well it will something like.
Intel QX6700+2 GB ram
Power supply 650 watt
Main board yet to decide but I need X6 SATA on it.
Vista 64bit

Do I go for one card or two? Max £200 per card.
It will have to go through a KVM switch with only VGA on it and my monitor is VGA as well.
I do have the cross over for DVI to VGA. The computer will be used for playing games online and some video editing.

So is it one card or two. The system will be getting built in about six weeks.

As I work away I might be a long time in replying to the post.

Thank for any help
 
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The R600 is due out in 6 weeks, and should be around the £400 mark. There'll also be a refresh card from nVidia, around the same price. Either of those single cards should be enough for your needs, and an extra card can always be added for SLI/XFire at a later date.
 
I'd also say that you should wait those 6 weeks, simply because the moment the new ATI cards are released, the Nvidia cards will go down in price :D .
Or just get the new Ati cards as I will :p
 
Sir Random said:
The R600 is due out in 6 weeks, and should be around the £400 mark. There'll also be a refresh card from nVidia, around the same price. Either of those single cards should be enough for your needs, and an extra card can always be added for SLI/XFire at a later date.
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This man speaks the truth.

I'll personally wait for the R600 to hit the market before making any decisions at this moment in time.
 
Id say 1x 8800 GTX, unless your gaming at stupid resolutions on a 30+ incher, you could wait the 6 weeks though for the R600, then wait for the 8900's, then wait for the new ATi card after that that will be announced no doubt, then the new Nv card that will be announced after that to counter the new ATi one, and so the cycle continues, if you wait you'll never buy as new faster/better cards come out all the time, every couple of months, so you'll think right ill get an R600, oh damn 8900's are coming ill wait for that, oh damn ATi have announced a refresh now better wait for that, oh damn again Nv have announced their next one, better wait for that now........... :D
 
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i would wait for the r600
it will be very fast and u would be thinking if i only waited 6 weeks later i could have had the fastest card
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Id say 1x 8800 GTX, unless your gaming at stupid resolutions on a 30+ incher, you could wait the 6 weeks though for the R600, then wait for the 8900's, then wait for the new ATi card after that that will be announced no doubt, then the new Nv card that will be announced after that to counter the new ATi one, and so the cycle continues, if you wait you'll never buy as new faster/better cards come out all the time, every couple of months, so you'll think right ill get an R600, oh damn 8900's are coming ill wait for that, oh damn ATi have announced a refresh now better wait for that, oh damn again Nv have announced their next one, better wait for that now........... :D
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Wise words indeed! After reading this I'm wondering if it might be the time to make the plunge and upgrade to a spanking new Voodoo 1 card. But i've heard Voodoo 2 is just round the corner so I might be best waiting to see if it would be worth upgrading to ......

Good luck whatever you decide. I'm going to be doing a full rebuild in March so hopefully (by luck) I will see if the R600 is a worthy upgrade

Deks
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Id say 1x 8800 GTX, unless your gaming at stupid resolutions on a 30+ incher, you could wait the 6 weeks though for the R600, then wait for the 8900's, then wait for the new ATi card after that that will be announced no doubt, then the new Nv card that will be announced after that to counter the new ATi one, and so the cycle continues, if you wait you'll never buy as new faster/better cards come out all the time, every couple of months, so you'll think right ill get an R600, oh damn 8900's are coming ill wait for that, oh damn ATi have announced a refresh now better wait for that, oh damn again Nv have announced their next one, better wait for that now........... :D
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In his first post, the OP stated:
ORGANIC said:
The system will be getting built in about six weeks.
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so it would be foolish for him to buy an 8800GTX now.
 
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