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X1950XTX 512MB.... Worth Upgrading?

jcb33

jcb33

jcb33

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As title realy, im just wondering if this is worth upgrading... it runs most things prety well, but it is not DX10 etc, If I were to ugprade I would have a budget of around £100..... what would be a worthy upgrade if any? Thanks!
 
jcb33 said:
Also which is better the 3870 or the Nvidia 8800GT?
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8800GT would be quite a fair whack faster IMHO and from purchase-research I've been doing, as this is coming from someone who is possibly buying a 3870 or two on Monday. No bias here.

My 8800GT with a very mild overclock was easily as fast as my GTX is, just had less memory for Crysis+AA.
 
If you have the money go for an 8800GT (or gts if cheap enough), if you don't then try to get either a 3850 512mb or 3870 512mb.

Drivers are still not perfect on 38xx stuff yet though (flickering textures in oblivion (shadows mainly), wierd dots in web browsers and some text is red/brown when it should be blue. Obviously Nvidia have their own issues however.

Matthew
 
Just sold my X1900XTX, looking at a replacement but Nvidia FS-X AA issues concern me. Although FS-X won't get much playtime..
 
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