X1900XTX or ....

[Seany]

Hi all,

I am going to purchase a PCI-Express graphics card in the next couple of weeks.

I have two questions.

1. Should I go for the:

Sapphire Radeon X1900XTX 512MB GDDR3, PCI-Express,ViVo,Dual-DVI-I,Full-Retail (€415)

or should I go for the:

Sapphire Radeon X1950XTX 512MB GDDR4, PCI-Express,ViVo,Dual-DVI-I,Full-Retail (€475)

Is it worth the extra bit?

2. Am I crazy spending this much on a card when DX10 cards will be out soon? If you think I am what do you think I should do?

Thanks in advance,

Sean

 

[Darkwave]

Neither, go for the X1900XT. It's almost as good as the XTX, and will overclock to XTX speeds without breaking a sweat meaning it will only be a few FPS behing the X1950XTX for much less cost.

Welcome to the forums.

 

[Seany]

Neither, go for the X1900XT. It's almost as good as the XTX, and will overclock to XTX speeds without breaking a sweat meaning it will only be a few FPS behing the X1950XTX for much less cost.

Welcome to the forums.

Ah this is great stuff altogether.
I can get a:
Sapphire Radeon X1900XT 512MB GDDR3, PCI-Express,ViVo,Dual-DVI-I,Full-Retail (€335)


If I'm not mistaken, ATI allow you to increase memory clock speed and GPU clock speed easily enough?
If I can tweak it to x1900xtx speeds will I need some sort of cooling for it?

Thanks

 

[locutus12]

i wouldnt worry about DX10, full utilisation of DX10 features wont happen for another 8 to 12 months anyway.

crysis has some DX10 features but mainly a DX9 game.
supremem commander is dx9
spore is dx 9
battle for midway is dx9
UT 2K7 is dx9

all these arnt even out yet, some of them wont be out till mid 2007.

 

[Darkwave]

Ah this is great stuff altogether.
I can get a:
Sapphire Radeon X1900XT 512MB GDDR3, PCI-Express,ViVo,Dual-DVI-I,Full-Retail (€335)

Sounds like you just saved yourself a lot of money to me.

If I'm not mistaken, ATI allow you to increase memory clock speed and GPU clock speed easily enough?
If I can tweak it to x1900xtx speeds will I need some sort of cooling for it?

You can overclock ATI cards very easily, either through Catalyst Control Centre's "Overdrive" feature or through a third-party application such as ATI Tool (which takes a little more fiddling about, but I highly recommend it as you can overclock much betterwith it.)

The stock cooler would be absolutely fine, but it would have course benefit from a Zalman VF900 for example.

 

[Meatball]

i wouldnt worry about DX10, full utilisation of DX10 features wont happen for another 8 to 12 months anyway.

crysis has some DX10 features but mainly a DX9 game.
supremem commander is dx9
spore is dx 9
battle for midway is dx9
UT 2K7 is dx9

all these arnt even out yet, some of them wont be out till mid 2007.

A bit OT sorry but is Spore going to be a ram/cpu/gpu hungry game? I'm really looking forward to it but not if I have to run it with minimal settings

 

[Psycho Sonny]

as long as u have a gig of ram and a decent enough card it shuld run fine

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Neither, go for the X1900XT. It's almost as good as the XTX, and will overclock to XTX speeds without breaking a sweat meaning it will only be a few FPS behing the X1950XTX for much less cost.

Welcome to the forums.

Sums it up.