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Which eVGA for £200?

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Question:
I have £200 budget for a graphics card, i would prefer it to be from eVGA since i want to use their STEP UP programme to upgrade to a 8800gtx/other in the next 90days once the funds become available (newly graduated). I will be overclocking CPU/RAM/GFX.

Which eVGA card will gimme the best bang for buck? (value for money for the uninitiated) :p

Thanks in advance
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Firstly, thanks guys for the replies:

I cannot find the eVGA 7900gto absolutely anywhere, i swear ive searched all the big etailers and auction sites, even the evga site says its backordered.

Even though i know the x1900xt is better, it would not give me a viable upgrade pathway once i get my hands on some money. Thats why im going for the eVGA.

Also anandtech recently did a roundup of all 8800 GPUs and chose the EVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTX w/ ACS3 as the best. I think it would be wise for me to stick to my budget then upgrade to this once i get the $.

Question:
I can stretch to the EVGA GeForce 7950 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail at £223 inc VAT if this is worth the extra £35 compared to the EVGA GeForce 7900 GT 256MB GDDR3 HDTV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail? Anywhere benchmarking/comparing these cards?
 
melbourne720 said:
As you're going to upgrade in a few months (correct?) anyway, then I would go the otherway and get as cheap a eVGA card as possible. I would go for the 7900GS as a good halfway point (its only £139). This means less money up front (staying in the bank where you keep the interest) and when you do upgrade you will get a bigger performance jump.

I wouldn't go down as far as a 7600 GS, as that would be a big drop. But the 7900 GS still has 20 pipes, so should be good for most games.

I game at 1680 * 1050 (mostly bf2142) would the 7900GS be able able to manage that with decent image quality settings?
 
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