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Graphics Should I bother with a 7950?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Mephi, 26 Jun 2006.

  1. Mephi

    Mephi What's a Dremel?

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    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
     
  2. Tim S

    Tim S OG

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    I would stick with a GeForce 7900 GT / Radeon X1800XT 256 - the 7950 GX2 will not show its fruits until higher resolutions. :thumb:
     
  3. Fozzy

    Fozzy What's a Dremel?

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    I'm not sure that it would work either. I think it requires the 590sli chipset.
     
  4. Glider

    Glider /dev/null

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    And I'd also advice to get some more RAM... :) 1 GB for serious gamers is a tad lowish nowadays :)
     
  5. Tim S

    Tim S OG

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    works fine on any motherboard on NVIDIA's list: http://www.nvidia.com/GX2
     
  6. Mephi

    Mephi What's a Dremel?

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    I dunno, I've always considered myself more of a comedy gamer....
    :D

    The jump to 2Gb is on the cards too, but I'm looking at the graphics card first.
    :)

    Mephi
     
  7. Fozzy

    Fozzy What's a Dremel?

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    Only at 1600x1200 resolutions and higher
     
  8. Stwongbad

    Stwongbad What's a Dremel?

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    My 1800XT 512mb cost me less than a 7900GT although the 7900GT has gone down in price a little (at least in US)
     
  9. Callum

    Callum What's a Dremel?

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    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 ;)
     
  10. Fozzy

    Fozzy What's a Dremel?

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    Farcry isnt even close to oblivion/FEAR/Other newer games. But I still believe the 7900gt can handle them
     
  11. oasked

    oasked Stuck in (better) mud

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    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! :thumb:
     
  12. Mephi

    Mephi What's a Dremel?

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    Thanks for the help guys, I'll be getting me a 7900GT and another Gb of ram next month :D

    Ooh, and the CPU is up to 2.8Ghz... :rock:

    Mephi
     
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