Gfx Upgrade

Going to upgrade monitor to ViewSonic's 20.1" VX2025wm & am planning to upgrade my gfx card at same time.

I started looking at PowerColor Radeon X1800 GTO Graphics Card: the Best in Its Class?
but think the availabilyty of these is pretty low, prices have fallen & the X1900 cards are now looking good.

Current thinking is :-
Radeon® X1900 GT 256MB £140.94 OC UK
or
Radeon X1900 XT 512MB£216.14 OC Uk

I'm not a big cutting edge gamer, more strategy & simulations.
Which would be best:-
1) hanging onto the £70 towards a conroe upgrade next year
2) Going for XT instead of GT x1900

thanks;)

The x1900gt is still a very good card, also consider the sapphire one as it comes with 1 or 2 games from a choice of 4. Identical card/price pretty much otherwise.

Unless you already have a high spec system the XT probably isn't worth it, most games as far as I know won't go up to that maximum widescreen resolution anyway. Bear in mind that this performs about on par, usually slightly abobe, with the 7900GT which is a £200 card.

Thanks krazy_olie, am also now considering the x1800 XT posted thread here OC Forums - X1900GT or XT?? & Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 at £149 is very comparable in price to x1900 GT which it beats in these comparisons ATI Radeon X1900 GT vs 7900/X1800
Performances in a nutshell

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Originally Posted by krazy_olie

with the 7900GT which is a £200 card.

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http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/7900_Series.html
166.79 at the mo. mine arrived this morning and its pretty much silent but screaming fast... if that makes any sense.