Should I upgrade to a GX2?

[phill9800]

A very good friend has offered me his XFX Extreme GX2 PCI-Express graphics card for £250.. Funds are tight at the moment for myself, but I was wondering would this card be a good upgrade for me, as I have a X1900 XT anyways??

I'm using a Conroe E6600 at the moment with the X1900 XT and performance is mind blowing for me... Upgraded from a AMD X2 4600 @ 2.9Ghz and its just laughing at it, even at standard clock!!

Just wondering what you guys thought

Many thanks!!

 

[phill9800]

If he offered me the card, what would be a good price for me to say yes then? £200 or something?

If its only another £40 I'll stick with my X1900 XT and get a GTX or even a new ATI card when I can afford an upgrade!!

 

[phill9800]

Does anyone know when the ATI's new card is coming out?

I will hold off and see what happens... By the sounds of it I could be killed!!

 

[phill9800]

The only thing is, eventually I'm going to be upgrading to two 24" TFT monitors because I want the extra screen size and screen res.. 1280x1024 isnt big enough for me anymore, so with the 24" models, I think (from what I've been reading) 1920x1200 is the size they manage..

I'm so far, unsure which model to go for because I hear good and bad things about a few of the models, but this is what I'm thinking of mainly...

Would my X1900 XT be enough to run at 1920x1200 with some settings turned on?
I dont think it could handle it could it??

I think if anything mind, I'd wait till the ATI card makes a showing and go from there... I've liked ATI cards and more so the HIS models... I just hope my 520w OC Z Mod Stream can keep up!!

 

[phill9800]

in multi GPU mode the GX2 will ONLY (excuse the caps) drive ONE monitor, you have to drop it to single GPU mode (basically a slightly faster version of a 7900GT) to run 2 displays with this card... you'd be much better off with a different card.

Unfortunatly a X1900 XT would struggle to run 1920x1200 at a decent quality level and still get playable fps all of the time. You might be better off in the short term seeing if you can crossfire that setup? if your card and motherboard support it and you can find another compatible x1900 (don't think you need a master any more but might do with the older card dunno)... if its possible it should be a lot cheaper and give you most of the performance of a GX2.

I wasnt meaning both screens at once (apologises, thats my fault) I'm just meaning I want to buy two 24" screens for the two PC's I have to replace the two 19" screens I have...

I dont want to go SLI or Crossfire as at the moment I wont use the power of both of the cards as I dont have the screen size at the moment.

I think the GTX or the new ATI card that comes out seems like the better option for me...

 

[phill9800]

I'll still stick with the new ATI card or the 8800GTX....

 

[phill9800]

Agreed, you shouldn't pay more than the x1950 xt for it. Why is this guy trying to off load his GX2? - probably wants a 8800

He's now got a XFX 8800GTX

 

[phill9800]

Whats wrong with a XFX card?

 

[phill9800]

I was looking into the eVGA model GTX as it was a lot faster than the other models which I thought was a little strange?

I've not had any problems with XFX stuff before... Must be a one off bad batch or something...

 

[phill9800]

I'll stick with those brands or I'd get a HIS R6xx model instead

 

[phill9800]

ha-ha

good thead mate


i was only selling the 7950gx2 to get a xfx8800gtx card


some nice lad on ebay bidded 260 all in for it so i am happy phill boy did not have it ha-ha

Congrats on that mate I bet you are over the moon!! :lol:

Well I'll wait and see what the R6xx or GTX is like

 

[phill9800]

Lucky git!!

I wonder how much I could get for my X1900 XT??