New Graphics Card

[Caris]

Im Rocking a ATI 256MB x600Pro now (PCI-E) and wanting to upgrade what would u say is a good card to go for which will be quite alot better than this?

Just Trying to make my money go further!

Caris

[mario114]

I read somehting about ati realising some new cards soon, x1000 series, there be good, but don't know how much.

[christophicus]

they will be really good (hopefully 0 but really expensive.

[Jack]

What kind of processor have you got? It's probably not worth buying a top of the line card if it's going to be bottlenecked by the CPU.

[Caris]

P4 550 3.4Ghz, HT Tech. Freezer 7 Cooler

[Jack]

If you want to save a bit of cash, get one of Sapphire's X800 GTO2 cards. They can be modified with a simple BIOS flash to reach X850 XT PE standards. Guide here (http://www.techpowerup.com/articles//overclocking/vidcard/127/1).

[Choze]

If you want to save a bit of cash, get one of Sapphire's X800 GTO2 cards. They can be modified with a simple BIOS flash to reach X850 XT PE standards. Guide here (http://www.techpowerup.com/articles//overclocking/vidcard/127/1).

Not worth going with those ATI as they lack SM3.0 features. Chances you'd want to enable all options in new games too which the ATI cant do.

What prices are you looking at?

The new ATI are pretty much a miss. Outside of the top 512mb X1800xt they were underperforming against cheaper Nvidia cards. The 512MB x1800xt itself was only subjectively better as it is beat by the 256MB 7800GTX in OpenGL games and costs £100 more! Nvidia have a 512MB version coming soon.

I'd recommend a Geforce 6800 Ultra or 7800 GT/GTX to most people due to prices and performance.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/7800_Series.html

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/X1800_Series.html

As you can see the ATI are well over priced for what they are and only the 512MB XT is better than any Nvidia which happens to cost £470. The overclocked 7800GTX on sale is for £100 less. The stock for over £150 less!

[Offerman]

Not worth going with those ATI as they lack SM3.0 features. Chances you'd want to enable all options in new games too which the ATI cant do.

What prices are you looking at?

The new ATI are pretty much a miss. Outside of the top 512mb X1800xt they were underperforming against cheaper Nvidia cards. The 512MB x1800xt itself was only subjectively better as it is beat by the 256MB 7800GTX in OpenGL games and costs £100 more! Nvidia have a 512MB version coming soon.

I'd recommend a Geforce 6800 Ultra or 7800 GT/GTX to most people due to prices and performance.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/7800_Series.html

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/X1800_Series.html

As you can see the ATI are well over priced for what they are and only the 512MB XT is better than any Nvidia which happens to cost £470. The overclocked 7800GTX on sale is for £100 less. The stock for over £150 less!

Ladys and Gentlemen. I present Choze, delivering another totally unbiased piece of advice on graphics cards....

Choze all I can say is...

WTF....

[Jordan]

Indeed, although he has a small point about the 7800GTX versus X1800 XT.
Same proformance (give or take) only $100 more for the ATi card. Anyway, will you finally accept that SM3.0 doesn't do anything but do what 2.0 does... only faster?

[Caris]

ok were getting somewere slowly so out of this page what would peopel recomend, and also how much better will it be form my x600pro

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/7800_Series.html

EDIT: or this line

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/X1800_Series.html

im will to spend up to £270 ish

[Jack]

You'll probably notice a massive difference coming from an X600 Pro to something better. The extra pipelines will make a massive difference. I went from an 8 pipeline cheapo standard 9800 to an X800 XT PE, and I was like "Guuuuh".


Not worth going with those ATI as they lack SM3.0 features. Chances you'd want to enable all options in new games too which the ATI cant do.

There's no point in him getting a 7800 unless he's got something spiffy like an Athlon 64 X2 4000. He'll only end up with a bottleneck if the rest of his PC can't keep up. Other than these new-fangled adaptive anti-aliasing features, I don't see much in the X1800s/7800s other than "Look, my e-penis is bigger than yours". The cost of a PC which would be needed to keep up with these new graphics cards outweighs my desire to have chain link fences look a bit better in Half-Life 2.

[Caris]

SO WHAT SHALL I GET! this topic hasnt been been use! ive told u my processer so someone reccomend me a good graphics card!

[RoadKill]

Tell us your budget and we'll find you a card.

[CompSci]

lol, i just brought a nice laptop for bout £500, any how roll on summer 06 to when i will be buying my new desktop, hopefully a athlon x2 dual core (or better) and a x1000xtpe

[Choze]

ok were getting somewere slowly so out of this page what would peopel recomend, and also how much better will it be form my x600pro

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/7800_Series.html

EDIT: or this line

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/X1800_Series.html

im will to spend up to £270 ish

The cheapest is the BFG GeForce 7800 GT OC 256MB GDDR3 for £232. Go for that as it is also overclocked and likely to overclock further than most other GT if you need to. It is also SLI capable as all 7800 are.

The cheapest GTX is £320 if you want to stretch to that.

Both are miles ahead of your x600pro. The GTX has 4 more pipelines than the GT and is clocked higher. You could also wait abit for Nvidia's 512mb part and see if prices fall(unlikely as ATI came in too high).

[RoadKill]

I'd agree with Choze that your best buy would be a 7800 GT for £232, a pretty cracking deal.

[Jack]

That is a good deal, yeah. I thought they were still like £300. I'd go for that card then, if you've got the cash. An X850-flashed X800 GTO2 would be a great deal if you haven't got much money to spare though. It's all down to how big your wallet is now.

[Choze]

Hurry up and buy the overclocked 7800GT because its a misprice.

[system_error]

I would wait the x600 is a quite good card and to be honest I normally skip 1-2 GPU generations. If you really want a new one get a NVIDIA 7800 - price for performance is better than the x1xxx series from ATi.

[Offerman]

Hurry up and buy the overclocked 7800GT because its a misprice.

If its a dramatic inprice then like f**k are they going to honour it.

[Choze]

If its a dramatic inprice then like f**k are they going to honour it.

Should do its the sam eprice as the cheapest standard GT. It might be on clearance or something too?

[ipaul]

Get a graphics card that works. Simple as.

[Caris]

thanks for that ipaul :|

[Choze]

The BFG isnt actually a misprice. Its now on offer and even cheaper. So go for it!

I ordered one. :grin: But my PC takes AGP so i will give it to my sister's pc.