Video card recommendation

Hello to everyone.
I have a ATI Radeon x1900GT Video card that I am looking to upgrade. I was
wondering, what would be a worthy upgrade? I'm looking at either ATI HD
2600 series or the geforce 8800 Series. The motherboard I have now supports
SLI so I'm looking more towards NVIDIA.
Thanks
Thomas

If your going Nvidia the best bet is a 8800 GT / GTS (the new one --
512mb). Otherwise wait till early next year when the new 9-series rolls
out


--
SilverWS602

- Core 2 Quad Q6600
- Abit IN9 32 MAX Motherboard
- 4 GB Patriot Extreme Performance RAM PC-6400 @ 4-4-4-12
- EVGA 8800 GT KO Edition x 2 (SLI)
- 74gb Raptor HDD
- Vista Home Premium x64

Well if you intend at some point in time to buy a second video card for SLi
operation then go with the 8800 series card. But if you intend to stay with
just one card pick up a new ATI 3750 far better performance then the 2600
series cards and the power consumption is far lower and the price is as well.
The 3700 series cards are Direct X 10.1 certified cards and the top of the
line card only costs around $250

"Thomas Jarboe" wrote:

> Hello to everyone.
> I have a ATI Radeon x1900GT Video card that I am looking to upgrade. I was
> wondering, what would be a worthy upgrade? I'm looking at either ATI HD
> 2600 series or the geforce 8800 Series. The motherboard I have now supports
> SLI so I'm looking more towards NVIDIA.
> Thanks
> Thomas
>
>
>

personally,im stickin' with nvidia - ive run my ati cards in crossfire mode
& my nvidia cards in sli mode & i dont think ati comes close to nvidia. if u
decide to go with nvidia,just make sure u do ur homework & buy from a
reputable manufacturer such as EVGA,XFX or the like. dont know ur tech level
or where u shop for pc stuff,but if ur not doin it online ur takin' a
beatin' in the pocketbook 95% of the time when it come to video cards.

in case u dont,i highly recommend newegg.com or zipzoomfly.com. - like i
said,do ur homework,the newegg site is an excellent resource for customer
reviews & things u need to know ahead of time before u spend ur cash,such as
the size of the cards & all the specs - i find its worth it to just quickly
browse thru some of the reviews. actually im upgrading to a 8800 series card
myself very soon,but gonna get a 640mb card which should do me well for a
while with the DirectX 10 series of games that should be getting more
support now,plus i like to run at high resolutions cause i have a 20"
widescreen.

good luck

"Thomas Jarboe" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello to everyone.
> I have a ATI Radeon x1900GT Video card that I am looking to upgrade. I
> was wondering, what would be a worthy upgrade? I'm looking at either ATI
> HD 2600 series or the geforce 8800 Series. The motherboard I have now
> supports SLI so I'm looking more towards NVIDIA.
> Thanks
> Thomas
>
>

"Thomas Jarboe" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello to everyone.
> I have a ATI Radeon x1900GT Video card that I am looking to upgrade. I
> was wondering, what would be a worthy upgrade? I'm looking at either ATI
> HD 2600 series or the geforce 8800 Series. The motherboard I have now
> supports SLI so I'm looking more towards NVIDIA.

I've just moved to a Radeon 3870 from a Radeon X1900XT. Crysis is playable
at very high at 1280x720. :-) And now all my other games are back to
running silky smooth at 1920x1200 maxed out.

I won't be buying another nVidia product for the foreseeable future, not
thanks to how terrible their drivers have been and how they stung everybody
by dropping support for the GeForce 5xxx series and nForce 3 boards -
despite saying they would support them.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

*Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*

The Geforce 8800GT 512MB cards look very good for the price. You can
overclock them and get similar or better performance than a 8800GTX.

But, depending on what resolution you game at, it may be overkill, and
may not see much of an improvement by going SLI.

--
Dustin Harper

http://www.vistarip.com


Thomas Jarboe wrote:
> Hello to everyone.
> I have a ATI Radeon x1900GT Video card that I am looking to upgrade. I
> was wondering, what would be a worthy upgrade? I'm looking at either
> ATI HD 2600 series or the geforce 8800 Series. The motherboard I have
> now supports SLI so I'm looking more towards NVIDIA.
> Thanks
> Thomas
>
>

"Thomas Jarboe" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello to everyone.
> I have a ATI Radeon x1900GT Video card that I am looking to upgrade. I
> was wondering, what would be a worthy upgrade? I'm looking at either ATI
> HD 2600 series or the geforce 8800 Series. The motherboard I have now
> supports SLI so I'm looking more towards NVIDIA.

Deffo go for 2 x Gainward Bliss 8800GTX you'll not be disappointed
--
VRG Scotty

www.vistareadygames.com
Register, it's free, and use the 'search for solution' tab for any problems

"Thomas Jarboe" wrote:

> Hello to everyone.
> I have a ATI Radeon x1900GT Video card that I am looking to upgrade. I was
> wondering, what would be a worthy upgrade? I'm looking at either ATI HD
> 2600 series or the geforce 8800 Series. The motherboard I have now supports
> SLI so I'm looking more towards NVIDIA.
> Thanks
> Thomas
>
>
>

I got an Evga Nvidia 8800 GT (superclocked non-requitred but go for the
overclocking for $50 if you want) and its just amazing

"Uba-Pook" <> wrote in message
news:020E171D-1156-4B25-BD44-...
>
>
> "Thomas Jarboe" wrote:
>
>> Hello to everyone.
>> I have a ATI Radeon x1900GT Video card that I am looking to upgrade. I
>> was
>> wondering, what would be a worthy upgrade? I'm looking at either ATI HD
>> 2600 series or the geforce 8800 Series. The motherboard I have now
>> supports
>> SLI so I'm looking more towards NVIDIA.
>> Thanks
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>
> I got an Evga Nvidia 8800 GT (superclocked non-requitred but go for the
> overclocking for $50 if you want) and its just amazing

I got an 8800GT, nice card, thinking of getting another for SLI, but I still
believe SLI is a major ripoff. I'm playing Lord of the Rings Online, and
while the game looks phenominal in DirectX 10 mode with this card you loose
about 40% of your framerate vs. DirectX 9. I am playing Bioshock in Dx10
mode at 1650x1080 (LCD 16:10 monitor), and it looks great. Framerate dips a
bit here and there, but it could be CPU related (high end core 2 duo), who
knows.

If you want to stick with ATi, wait for the 38x0 series, I'm hearing amazing
things about these cards and they cost less than the 8800gt's (Faster too).
ATi should be winning the video card war, but nVidia is taking more risks,
getting to market first so they are winning, but I love ATi for keeping
pricing competitive! If ATi ever went away we'd be screwed.

X1900 isn't a bad card, no directx 10, but directx 10 isn't all it's cracked
up to be. Looks pretty, but... well if you want it, i doubt i'll be able to
stop ya. Have fun shoppin.

"Andy [YaYa]" wrote:

> "Uba-Pook" <> wrote in message
> news:020E171D-1156-4B25-BD44-...
> >
> >
> > "Thomas Jarboe" wrote:
> >
> >> Hello to everyone.
> >> I have a ATI Radeon x1900GT Video card that I am looking to upgrade. I
> >> was
> >> wondering, what would be a worthy upgrade? I'm looking at either ATI HD
> >> 2600 series or the geforce 8800 Series. The motherboard I have now
> >> supports
> >> SLI so I'm looking more towards NVIDIA.
> >> Thanks
> >> Thomas
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I got an Evga Nvidia 8800 GT (superclocked non-requitred but go for the
> > overclocking for $50 if you want) and its just amazing
>
> I got an 8800GT, nice card, thinking of getting another for SLI, but I still
> believe SLI is a major ripoff. I'm playing Lord of the Rings Online, and
> while the game looks phenominal in DirectX 10 mode with this card you loose
> about 40% of your framerate vs. DirectX 9. I am playing Bioshock in Dx10
> mode at 1650x1080 (LCD 16:10 monitor), and it looks great. Framerate dips a
> bit here and there, but it could be CPU related (high end core 2 duo), who
> knows.
>
> If you want to stick with ATi, wait for the 38x0 series, I'm hearing amazing
> things about these cards and they cost less than the 8800gt's (Faster too).
> ATi should be winning the video card war, but nVidia is taking more risks,
> getting to market first so they are winning, but I love ATi for keeping
> pricing competitive! If ATi ever went away we'd be screwed.
>
> X1900 isn't a bad card, no directx 10, but directx 10 isn't all it's cracked
> up to be. Looks pretty, but... well if you want it, i doubt i'll be able to
> stop ya. Have fun shoppin.
>


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

zeffa
zeffastudio.com

hi ,
i need to upgrade my video card(s) about 1 year ago i bought a 256mb
ATI Radion and a 128mb nvidia (EVGA) . BOTH COST ME ABOUT $ 115.00 EACH .
from my glancing at the adds . a ATI or NVIDIA 512mb video card cost about
$ 80.00 to $ 110.00 . that is at least a card at my $price$ range . my
NVIDIA 128MB was just as fast as the 256mb ATI . ( i like to run 4 monitors
) . i can only aford 1 video card at a time and as you can see time = $ +
power < 6 months = a video card may be out dated by the time i get a 2nd
video card .

the question is ...
i was planing on a 512mb video card purchase . should i try to buget
hard and mabe get a little bit biger than 512mb video card ?
so when i get the 2nd card (mabe in 4 months) i'll have maching power ? i
don't play any games that need more than 1024 x 768 . my 4 monitors are to
run multible programs at once (audio and video editing) . i would just
would ike to upgrade once if posable ....

i thought !!WOW !! 512's and 1gb video cards . but that i think is a
econemy card now .

ADVICE FROM MY EXSPERENCES --- high dollar ATI cards are as good as an
NVIDIA card ,
--- !!! 2 things iv'e learned ---

#1 never by an NVIDIA VIDEO CARD UNLESS IT is made by the
" EVGA " NIVIDA company .

# 2 it is not always required but it doesn't hurt if you buy a video
card that is the same brand as the chip set in your north
bridge of your motherboard .

thank you for your earler coments . every bit of wisdom adds up .


zeffa
zeffastudio.com