new card to replace x850xt pe. Any Ideas?

Hey guys. Ive been playing oblvion and its given me that upgrading bug. I currently own an x850 xt pe but its starting to show its age. Im after a card that can play games at 1280 * 1024 with HDR (if supported) with AA + AF. Although I know that NVIDIA cant do AA + HDR. The card must cost less that £200.

I play alot of FPS games.

Ive been looking around and there are a few contenders-

7900 gt
7900 gs
x1900 gt
x1800 xt 256
others????

or maybe something off ebay but i'd rather get a card from somewhere like scan.

Hoping for a card to improve on my x850 and offer some good sm 3 performance.

Any Ideas?

thanks in advance.

X1900XT if you can find it for £200, should do soon when the x1950xtx and 7950gt pitch up. I upgraded from an X800xt and it was definately worth it.

If not the X1800XT 256 is pretty bargainous.

overclockers have the x1900XT 256mb version for iirc 170 inc vat! bargain tbh

Yup - definately go ATI for oblivion. The 1900GT still puts in a great performance as well :)

I've got an X1800 XT, it run Oblivion pretty well but I'd get a higher spec one if I could afford it.

Cheers guys. I'll have a look.

How are OCUK doing these days? I havent used them for a long time because I had massive problems sorting out RMA's. They do have the best prices though!

Still not got the best rep! (but i wont say any more!) 512mb 7950GT is on pre-order with scan for £199 :) not sure how it'll run though?

Should be able to get a X1900XT 512mb for £200.

Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 256MB from OCuk £170.36 Including VAT at 17.5%.

or

Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB from OCuk £217.36 Including VAT at 17.5%

easily your best two choices if you can find the extra £18 then get the 512mb, saying that you could get the 256mb version and get a Zalman VF-900 to cool it. I would go for the second option.

i got x1800xt 512 but it's held back by my 1 gig of ram need more really but hell of a card

Well I made a decision and went for the x1900xt 256 from OCUK. The price was right and I actually found a few results for it.

http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx

I was looking at the xfx 7900gs xt but when i saw the difference the decision was easy.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

g

p.s. is the oblivion chuck patch integrated in to cats 6.8 or do i have to download a seperate driver?

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Originally Posted by Azza

Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 256MB from OCuk £170.36 Including VAT at 17.5%.

or

Connect3D ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB from OCuk £217.36 Including VAT at 17.5%

easily your best two choices if you can find the extra £18 then get the 512mb, saying that you could get the 256mb version and get a Zalman VF-900 to cool it. I would go for the second option.

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£18???? :O_o1:

its £38 more, im sure you can get one for £200 somewhere though........ have a look for special offers on scan and stuff

Actually, its £48... but whos counting?

Anyway, I just got one of these cards from OCUK this weekend. I was not aware until reading this post that they had a bad reputation.... which is a pain, considering I may have a problem with my card - but thats for another thread....