I've been going through the discount sites for a new video card and narrowed the choices to two.
1 - Geforce 8800 GTS 640MB card (found 1 below $400)
2 - Radeon x2900 1GB card (found 1 below $500)
Only problem with 2 is that I have to get a better power supply (550w would be inadequate with all the HD's I have on board).
Got to decide it soon.
I vote #1. I've been looking at video cards for a while there, and #1 looks like it can work very well.
Radeon, absolutely. Ati just works better....
I vote #1.
I hear ATI isnt reliable, and I know GeForce work great. Especially 8800.
I'd go with No. 1...but thats just me.....and IATE.
Id say ATI on the basis that it has been proven to be a near equal and i some cases better the the 8800GTX in benchmarks and some games plus thats just with the current drivers the card has massive amounts of potential once those get updated and with dx10.
also the core clock on the ati card is almost 200 mhz than a 8800GTS
also if you get an ati i recommend the HIS brand cards cause most have large overclockablity although the asus brand one is quite nice too and you get the black box pack form Valve congaing half life two and other things.
Well AMD bought out ati, so its only gonna get better.
Ive had good luck with nvidia,never had an ati card so I cant say one way or the other.
Also read ATI had some probs updating their drivers, maybe that'll change now with AMD running the show
some specs on each
http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-US/Har...Cards.aspx
I have had very few issues with any of my ati cards i still love my old old 9800xt it was flawless as far as goes in stock form :goodjob: and my x1800gto is working quite well and i haven't had any issues with it. ive also used pc's with nvidias and i see few differences between the performance the main diffrence is they render differently and ati has the shader models which are universal between pc and gaming platforms which allows for tweaks and updates by game company's (bethsoft knights of the nine)Cought*
I just found a Gigabyte Geforce 8800GTS 640MB for 353.50. The Radeon is awfully tempting (1GB of power) but replacing the power supply, it's easy for me to do but unplugging everything again and redoing it is a hassle.
Geforce 8800, Nvidia has never let me down, and that card is a beast.
Ordered the Geforce today, so maybe sometime late next week it should arrive.