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Which ATI card to replace 7800GT?

tomos

tomos

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on a crossfire mobo now and feel like going back to the ATi route after being fed up with nvidia

my current card can play on my 30" dell ok with quake4/fear/halflife2/ CS:S etc (with some AA/AF taken down a notch sometimes tho)

any recommendations for an ATi card to go on a badaxe mobo with a conroe? hoping not too spend stupid money tho
 
hmm, not to keen on sticking with nvidia to be honest. dont have a high opinion of their promises etc. would prefer to go ATi.

as for the 7950 Gx2, doesnt that have probs with not working on some mobos?

i am reading about the x1900* series at the mo.

i am curious about atis avivo and poss GPU accelerated encoding. anyone know anything about this? h.264 encoding would deffo sway me

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how about the X1950 XT-X? my crossfire info is limited. do these cards work ok as a single card? also, do they come with that weird liquid metal cooler?

ta lads :)
 
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tomos said:
hmm, not to keen on sticking with nvidia to be honest. dont have a high opinion of their promises etc. would prefer to go ATi.

as for the 7950 Gx2, doesnt that have probs with not working on some mobos?

i am reading about the x1900* series at the mo.

i am curious about atis avivo and poss GPU accelerated encoding. anyone know anything about this? h.264 encoding would deffo sway me

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how about the X1950 XT-X? my crossfire info is limited. do these cards work ok as a single card? also, do they come with that weird liquid metal cooler?

ta lads :)
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Im afraid Im not too sure about the decoding capabilities, although the vivo ENCODER is VERY nippy for what it can do. Cuts most re-encoding by about 70% in time. The XTX cards work fine on thier own, in any flavour, simply if you want to do crossfire, currently you need to buy a master card and have a compatible motherboard, as the master cards have a compositing chip on them for combining the two images which the standard cards dont have.
 
thanks, as far as the avivo encoder - at the mo afaik,it doesnt use any GPU acceleration to encode. hopefully that may change soon
 
tomos said:
thanks, as far as the avivo encoder - at the mo afaik,it doesnt use any GPU acceleration to encode. hopefully that may change soon
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Can't see how a GPU could have any input on an encoding job as all it is designed to do is put images on the screen.
 
doesnt the same apply to decoding video too? ATi do say they plan for gpu assisted ENcoding. i just hope they keep their promises better than nvidia have in the past
 
Dont get the x1950 XTX total waste of money, you can buy the HIS x1900 XT with the same cooler as it the ICEQ 3 SILENT, clock it to x1900 XTX speeds (which it will do easily as the XTX is not that much faster), and it will be 1x, at the most 2x frames slower in games than the x1950 XTX, and you'll save a packet. :)
 
thought the GDDR4 ram on the x1950xtx made quite a diff in higher resolutions? also not too keen on clocking graphics cards.

am bouncing back and forth at the mo between the 1950 or (maybe) nvidas 7950 GX2. not too keen on going to nvidia again but everything suggests it would be a better card at really high resolutions
 
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