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    Question XFX 7900GTX or Sapphire 1950XT?

    The Nvidia card is £100 at Scan (LN13481) and the Ati is £105 at Ebuyer (119441). Which is fastest/best value? Cheers

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    What games are you playing?

    The x1950xt has better image quality, and is faster for games like Oblivion, Far Cry and any others that have a lot of shader effects. Plus you can do AA and HDR together.

    The 7900GTX has more memory and is faster for games that use stencil shadows and are texture heavy - DOOM3, Quake 4, Gothic 3 etc. work better on this card. You can't do AA and HDR together though.

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    Depends on whether or not the 7900GTX is old stock from the days when they had serious problems with artifacting (bad memory) or a more up to date one.

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    Just buy which ever you fancy Both cards have pros and cons but they are still both quite capable and when you think about the price you have nothing to lose. Just expect more hassle with GTX. And rapid weight loss.lol

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    Question

    Huh? I don't get the rapid weightloss thing (it's late and I'm tired)!

    Play a mix of all those games previously mentioned: Oblivion, Far Cry plus Unreal Tournament 2004, Company of Heroes, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life 2, Age of Empires III, Dark Messiah and er, Eets...

    Read about the old XFX memory problems I presume they would have sorted it out by now (was about a year ago after all)...

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    From that games list I'd recommend the x1950xt. The difference between the two cards in Oblivion alone makes it worth the purchase.

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    That 7900 seems to have gone up in price and out of stock.

    As a Linux user I still wouldn't buy the ATI card though

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    The 7900 will overclock better than the 1950, but, if you aren't planning on fiddling the 1950 is the better card in most cases...unless you're running linux ofc Dances

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    Looks like the ATi card is winning at the minute.

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    Glad I posted the poll, it's quite exciting! Well, sort of...

    Forgot to mention I'm running Vista64 which has caused massive slowdown in a lot of games (eg Source ) compared to XP. Downloaded latest Nvidia drivers recently and they are causing some graphic corruption so, like most who voted, not leaning toward Nvidia at the moment!

    Oh BTW, have Nv 7800GS (Gainward Bliss) and 5950 Ultra AGP in Asrock 4core VSTA (see System) and Asrock Nforce3 respectively ATM.

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    Gone for the Radeon, will see how it fares in the fairly crummy 4coreVSTA mobo (PCI-E 4x)!

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    Wow, nice timing on this poll! I've been wondering the exactly the same thing

    Out of curiosity, if so many people prefer the x1950 then why are so many mobos SLI and so few Crossfire?

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    What has crossfire/SLI got to do with it?

    The people who get 1950s are usually concerned with getting great performance but within a budget. SLI/Crossfire is a terrible solution.

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    The Sapphire X1950XT has a reputation of being a turbojet from many people I've spoken with.
    Very hot and very loud.
    First batches apparently had rather dodgy VRMs.

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    I have one of the earliest cards, VRM is absolutely fine. It's not at all loud - I can't hear the fan at all unless I'm running specific video card stress tests. It does run fairly hot (70-80C) under heavy load but at least all that gets dumped outside the case without raising internal temps.

    Are you getting confused with the x1950pro? - the VRM on those used to be quite dodgy.
    Last edited by kalniel; 03-08-2007 at 09:11 AM.

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