X1800XT or 7900GT?

[chrislocalboy]

Have been pondering on a new card for a while now and was looking into the 7800 range and then all of a sudden the 7900 range appears and are a hell of a lot cheaper that the 7900's.

Then I spot the X1800XT on OCUK deal of the week...... what should I go for the 7900GT or X1800XT, the obvious difference is pipelines of which the 7900GT has more but I know ATI cards do things differently with shaders etc.

Help me out guys, your opinions will be greatly appreciated.

Chris

 

[chrislocalboy]

Mate I'm at work and need to keep my browsing to a minimum yeah?

Just thought it would be easy to drop in a new thread and check in on it every now and then as to not get a reaming from my superiors!

 

[chrislocalboy]

well both will work fine for most things,
what do you use your PC for ?
games, dvd, music etc

Mostly gaming, and in particular I'm playing Oblivion at the moment!

 

[chrislocalboy]

If your playing Oblivion, then go for the x1800xt, as Nvidia sucks with it.

I know the ATI card and do AA and HDR at the same time which with Oblivion is on obvious advantage but I'm not going to be playing Oblivion for ever...... which is why I'm asking the question.

Thanks for the reply

Chris

 

[chrislocalboy]

I can play oblivion with a 6600 at 640x480 and it runs perfectly.
Then again havent got all the extras on, depends on what you want i suppose

Well my rig at present is;

AMD 64 3000+ (clocked to 3500)
X800XT
2Gb RAM

It runs fine with the settings on high and I love it however my reasons for wanting a new card and not solely greed!!!

I have just moved into my first home and with morgate payments of over £500 a month a have very little cash.... however I have a few hundred stashed away and I want to buy a new card before that gets spent on some other crap like a new hoover or something!!!! as I know once that stash of cash is gone I wont be getting an upgrade for quite some time!

Cheers

 

[chrislocalboy]

You'll have to forgive Goksly, tends to be a bit prone to moments of unhelpfulness from time to time.

Seriously Goksly, we've had this out before and if you can't be arsed to post then why bother?

Forgiven