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kevlon

kevlon

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Hi All

I am looking to upgrade my graphic card and am looking for advice. My current system is as follows.
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
Asus A8N-SLi Board
1GB Memory PC 3200
2 x Gigabyte Nvidia 6600gt (SLi)
Since changing my 17" monitor for a 19" widescreen monitor (1440 x 900 res) games like Call of Duty 2 etc have started to struggle. I have looked at the BFG 7950gt at the OC website but would the rest of my system take advantage of it or would lesser cards like the 7900gt or 7900gs be a better option. I have about £180 to spend and would rather stick to Nvidia cards.

Thanks in advance

Kev
 
kevlon said:
Since changing my 17" monitor for a 19" widescreen monitor (1440 x 900 res) games like Call of Duty 2 etc have started to struggle. I have looked at the BFG 7950gt at the OC website but would the rest of my system take advantage of it or would lesser cards like the 7900gt or 7900gs be a better option. I have about £180 to spend and would rather stick to Nvidia cards.
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I'd seriously think about ATi, as they rule the £100-£200 price bracket at the moment. The x1950 XT will beat anything nvidia could throw at it for that money.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-063-CO

If you wanted to spend less than £150, the x1950 Pro is a great card also.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-064-PC

If you have to go nvidia, then an OCuk 7900GS 512MB (once you've overclocked) should be good.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-045-OK
 
2 GD of ram would help a lot aswell, either add 1gd or get 2X1 gd sticks depends on motherboaed and if it can use 4 sticks then just add 2 X 512mb sticks
 
queamin said:
2 GD of ram would help a lot aswell, either add 1gd or get 2X1 gd sticks depends on motherboaed and if it can use 4 sticks then just add 2 X 512mb sticks
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Agreed, also 2 x 1GB sticks will be faster, I'd always sell old and buy new with RAM - mix and match invites so many problems its not worth the grief.
 
The 6600GT is an old card but it's far from a complete slouch. I personally think you'd get more of an improvement from the extra RAM, especially as it's two 6600s in SLi.
 
Cheers for the replies,

The OCUK 7900GS sounds like the one for me, anyone got any comments on this card? i.e performance, stability, overclocking potential or SLIing.
 
x1950pro is better than the 7900 GS, see here , has much better IQ, and can also do AA+HDR, so id go for the x1950pro and an extra 1gb Ram FOR THE WIN. :D
 
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The main reason I prefer Nvidia is because I would like to keep my options open for future SLI config. I do understand that ATI presently have the edge over Nvidia. Please understand that I'm no expert in computer hardware so I do appreciate your comments. Would the high end cards 8800, 7950 etc just bottleneck the processor (AMD 64 3500+)?
 
kevlon said:
The main reason I prefer Nvidia is because I would like to keep my options open for future SLI config. I do understand that ATI presently have the edge over Nvidia. Please understand that I'm no expert in computer hardware so I do appreciate your comments. Would the high end cards 8800, 7950 etc just bottleneck the processor (AMD 64 3500+)?
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Yeah they would be bottlenecked on a 3500+, even my x1800 XT was bottlenecked on my old 3500+, now im on Conroe its able to breathe a lot more, i can definately see a difference. :)
 
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