which card to buy today

[s29feb]

Thet are still reasonably the same, there used to be a bigger difference than that and still is on other websites.

I'm still swithering as the ATi fan noise seems to be a bit annoying in most reviews, think its going to be the XFX extreme 7800GT for myself or possibly the BFG?

[kalniel]

Ah ok, yes, the difference can be even more than that. But seeing as the x1800xl doesn't perform better than the 7800gt I wouldn't recommend paying any amount more for it unless there was some other feature you were going to use (like you found a better game bundle or something).

I think the 7800gt is noisy as well, but possibly slightly less annoying in pitch from the reviews.