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PCI-E Card for around £200-£220

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Hi,

Im looking for a GFX card for around the price mentioned above, my £50 7300GS is doing ok but to play games like Quake4 and CSS on full res and without FPS configs is becoming a pain!

Also the card must last a good 6-8 months being able to play the top games

I have heard of the X1900 being a good card.

Thanks,
Chris
 
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You won't get an X1900 for £220 unless you're very luck in the MM (which you can't access anyway), but you can get a 7900GT for £180 brand new online, and that will overclock close to 7900GTX speeds, albeit with half the RAM.
 
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Bezinator said:
What about this?

GX-047-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (3056) (GX-047-CO)
£219.95 £219.95

You missed a bit...

(£258.44 Including VAT at 17.5%)

lol...
 
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bez mate, go for a X1800XT , dam fast and you can get a good one for £160 , keep the change for the pub....or a new game :D

but if you want to spend it, go for:

HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-043-HT)

Price: £174.95 (£205.57 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Quiet and 512mb or ram which will keep you going at HIGH resolutions :p
 
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Seconding the X1800XT 256MB for £160, utter bargain, and you can use the savings to buy a Zalman VF900 for £25 which will let you keep it completely silent and/or OC the hell out of it. The 7900GT is only worth buying if you plan to do a pencil mod, and even then the failure rate on the 7900 series is higher than any card in the last 2-3 years at a minimum.
 
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well, it will play all directX9 games... you will need windows "vista" and directx10 card to play the newer games towards the 6-8months end period when directx10 games come out, but for now it will play all the latest games, i cant think of too many games that are directx10 anyways so an X1800XT would be a great buy, infact I am purchasing one next week ;)
 
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Bezinator said:
x1800 will last around 6-8 months playing the latest games say Quake 4 and more which are coming out?
Easily.


The X1800XT is definitely the best bang per buck card at the moment.
Topend performance for near midrange price.

There are very few DX10 games that i know of on the recent horizon. Besides, for the next couple of years the games released with DX10 will be backwards compatible with DX9.
 
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ACESHIGH is correct. The DX10 games coming out, Crysis for example, will be playable on DX9 cards.

In fact, all the Crysis videos you guys have seen so far have been rendered purely on the X1900XT-X, so don't bother buying a DX10 card until Q2 next year when there are actually games out other than Crysis that would use it, or they will be obsolete super quick.
 
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dante6491 said:
what mobo you got.... shove another 7300 in there if you can. overclock them... boom lots of power for like a third of the price

:confused:

7300gs cant do sli
nor would it be fast if you could.

x1800 512mb, i say go for that, the r520/r580 cores love memory and its going to last longer into the future not to mention its faster.
 
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