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X1900XT 256mb for ~£170 would be your best bet I think unless you can find a secondhand 512mb X1900XT for the same sort of money and even then if you don't game at over 1280x1024 there isn't a huge deal of point. 
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Plenty of posts on this already (search is your friend) but in a nutshell:
X1900XT - Great performance out of the box. Higher power consumption and heat output.
7900GTO - Can be overclocked easily to 7900GTX speeds. Great performance. Lower power consumption and heat output. Quiet cooler.
Those, personally, would be my two considerations at that price range. I decided on the 7900GTO in the end because I needed lower heat and power consumption, quiet cooling and I like overclocking, of course
X1900XT - Great performance out of the box. Higher power consumption and heat output.
7900GTO - Can be overclocked easily to 7900GTX speeds. Great performance. Lower power consumption and heat output. Quiet cooler.
Those, personally, would be my two considerations at that price range. I decided on the 7900GTO in the end because I needed lower heat and power consumption, quiet cooling and I like overclocking, of course
Heatsinked said:Plenty of posts on this already (search is your friend) but in a nutshell:
X1900XT - Great performance out of the box. Higher power consumption and heat output.
7900GTO - Can be overclocked easily to 7900GTX speeds. Great performance. Lower power consumption and heat output. Quiet cooler.
Those, personally, would be my two considerations at that price range. I decided on the 7900GTO in the end because I needed lower heat and power consumption, quiet cooling and I like overclocking, of course
just to point out about the X1900XT... they may actually work out cooler than the Nvidia equivelant range when you analyse it. Nvidias coolers dump any heat back inside the system, ATi use a dual slot cooler than scoops the air up and dumps it outside the case so in effect there is very little difference between them when talking about internal warming.
p.s. X1900XT 256mb gets my vote.
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The nvidia card I am recommending has a heatsink/fan combo which vents the air out the back of the case, like the ATI design. In tests it is the cooler card and thus has great overclocking potential
Heatsinked said:The nvidia card I am recommending has a heatsink/fan combo which vents the air out the back of the case, like the ATI design. In tests it is the cooler card and thus has great overclocking potential
Nvidia finally have some common sense with coolers.... surely not!!still bare in mind the X1900XT 256mb has been shown to be 11% faster than a 7950GT 512mb and the X1900XT clocks just as well plus its cheaper and you can have HDR+AA
Benchies X1900XT 256 v 7950GT 512mb
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2833&p=10
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTE3MSw0LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
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