Hi everyone, I'm planning a graphic card upgrade, and I was wondering if it was worth going for the new 7950. My current system is: Athlon x2 3800 @ 2.55Ghz (so far) 1Gb of Corsair DDR500 6600GT 19" TFT monitor (1280x1024) Now, it's reasonably obvious that the 6600GT is the bottleneck, and my first thought was to stick in a 7900GT. But now I am in the rare position of being able to spend £400 on a graphics card. Should I? Seeing as I'm only going to be able to run it at 1280x1024, will I get to see much performance increase over the 7900GT? If I was to spend £400 on the card, I'd want to leave all upgrades for at least 2 years, but with DX10 round the corner, should I bank the extra £200 and see what happens? TIA Mephi
I would stick with a GeForce 7900 GT / Radeon X1800XT 256 - the 7950 GX2 will not show its fruits until higher resolutions.
I dunno, I've always considered myself more of a comedy gamer.... The jump to 2Gb is on the cards too, but I'm looking at the graphics card first. Mephi
My 1800XT 512mb cost me less than a 7900GT although the 7900GT has gone down in price a little (at least in US)
I have the X2 3800+ (though not overclocked), a 19" TFT monitor, 2GB of RAM, and the 7900 GT. And so far, even the 7900 GT may have been over kill. I only have FarCry so far, but I hear that's supposed to be fairly good graphically, and the graphics card gives me 100+ FPS rates on max settings. I'd say that would be fine for you
Farcry isnt even close to oblivion/FEAR/Other newer games. But I still believe the 7900gt can handle them
Just get a 7900GT or X1800XT (512mb), they're more than enough for 1280x1024. It'll also mean you have money to spend on RAM, or on more hardware in the future!
Thanks for the help guys, I'll be getting me a 7900GT and another Gb of ram next month Ooh, and the CPU is up to 2.8Ghz... Mephi