I have a intergrated Geforce4 MX (it sucks) and im looking to upgrade to either the 9800 Pro or 5900XT. I can get the 9800 Pro for $215 and the 5900XT for $200. Which one should i pick-up?
Psht, you can get the 5900SE for 185 or so... Here are a few links (BTW- I'm very very satisfied with mine!) http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-130-179&depa=1 http://accupc.com/itemDetail.jsp?pid=VEV128A8N321T I ordered mine from accupc a few weeks ago and it came with Call of Duty (so basically I got it for 145 usd ) - I don't think that it is still inlcuded though
http://www.bit-tech.net/review/302 I took a look at the Sparkle 5900XT, and pitted it against a 9800SE which softmodded to 9800PRO, as you will see, the 9800PRO sees off the competition no sweat
w00t?? holy thread revival batman!! my geforce 3 is really starting to get a bit sluggish now and voltmodding it doesn't sound too hopefully (core and mem voltages cannot be addjusted independantly of each other and at stock asus have 2.5v chips at 3.3v!) so i came to the connclusion of a 5900xt or a 9800pro then i naturally i'm not bothered about getting a big bundle of games/software with it, hardware is most important. I'm aiming on spending something like £150 and the card is to tie me over till next year, summer at the latest, i wanna be playing hl2, doom3 etc... at up to 1152/1024 res with a nice blend of aa and af if poss. Oh and also... i would like something that overclocks nicely too, see if it can beat the +40% i squezzed out of my gf3 my choice for the 5900xt is the gainward 1100xt golden sample which is about £130-150. It gets points for asthetics imo but i'm not sure about the 9800pro, i've read they can be flashed to an xt but only the 256mb pros but if anyone can find any of those in my price range then please say. these are the 9800pro brands/prices i have found so far: sapphire 128mb £141-komplett connect 3d 128mb £129-microdirect ati 128mb £137-microdirect powercolor 128mb £135-tekheads gigabyte 128mb £158-overclock msi 128mb £162-dabs hightech 128mb £149-ebuyer hightech iceq 128mb £176-scan hightech iceq 256mb £233-ebuyer hurcules 128mb £117-ocuk club3d 128mb £154-tekheads from lots of searching today it seems the 9800pro is slightly faster and will also have better iq, but i really need opinions from anybody on this one tho
You can get an OEM version of the 9800 Pro for £125 inc delivery at www.lowestonweb.co.uk (Evesham's online branch) And yes, I'd personally go with the 9800 Pro every day of the week
oooh nice price, what's the chance of me getting a r360 core tho? edit: jus reading the reviews and all the recent ones say it came with the r360 so this is probably gonna be the card unless anyone mentions anything better