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Tiger-Heli:


--- Quote from: krick on October 08, 2005, 07:07:30 pm ---Personally, I'll never buy a video card with a fan again.  I've owned four so far and the fans are always really crappy and fail after a year or two even with regular cleaning.  Plus they're almost never replaceable.

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Agreed . . . I have an ATI 9200 and an FX5200, both fanless after about 4 cards had fans die on me. . .

Also, ATI's drivers tend to be more troublesome to configure, but in general I still like their cards.

SOAPboy:


--- Quote from: RayB on October 07, 2005, 02:00:28 pm ---I have a 9800 Pro 128mb. I run Far Cry with all settings on HIGH. Half Life 2 I get excellent results with, but it chugs sometimes. But I had only 512mb of ram when I was playing it. 1 gig is better. Plus now I think I'd recommend going with 256mb of VIDEO card ram if you can afford it.




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Owned a 9800pro

HL2, yes, Farcry, Kinda..

Had a gig of ram, didnt make a difference in farcry, while it still ran ok for the most part, the slowdown was horrid in some areas and just not worth it..

9800pro, dont bother anymore..


--- Quote from: Abomination on October 08, 2005, 10:03:07 am ---
--- Quote from: SirPoonga on October 06, 2005, 04:38:43 pm ---FYI, my ATI 9550 can play fear demo at highest setting, there are some glitches at maximum setting.

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At what resolution?  I read a review with a guy who had an AMD FX and 2 7800gtx's in SLI that couldnt run fear at max settings.

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Fear also isnt out yet.. the DEMO is, and its NOT at all, in any way shape or form, optimized for the 7800GTXs.

And btw, the fear demo runs flawless with everything cranked to max in 1280x1024 on my 7800gtx


--- Quote from: StormGiant on October 06, 2005, 09:33:32 pm ---IMHO the best site for hardware reviews is www.tomshardware.com.  There are other good sites out there but this is the Consumer Reports of computer tech.

When I'm building a budget PC I search through the older round-ups to find out the best comparable products like motherboards and videocards and get the biggest bang-for-the-buck.

You can use pricewatch but double-check the seller rating at www.resellerratings.com.  If newegg has it, I get it from them - their price+shipping usually can't be beat.  If you've ever had to try and return something like a bad memory stick via online purchase, you know how important customer service is, and saving a buck or two isn't worth it.

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its a shame he has such a bad rep tho, First company to toss him a few $$ gets a better review..


--- Quote from: fiscap on October 06, 2005, 08:26:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: SOAPboy on October 06, 2005, 06:20:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: fiscap on October 06, 2005, 05:09:27 pm ---ATI is on the verge of releasing it's x1k line. The x1300 should start in the $100 range and should give you bang for your buck.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=3566

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Read many of the benchmarks?

Nvidia < ATI
Once again..

Sucks, huge ati fan, but i went nvidia because lets face it, they own right now :)

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Actually, I have been checking out the benchmarks - as limited as they are right now.

"The basic architecture, clocks and memory size of the Radeon X1800 XT make it undoubtedly the fastest overall graphics accelerator on the planet, ATI regaining the crown they've not worn since GeForce 7800 GTX and G70 blew us all away back at the end of June."

Have another look - http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=3603


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Wait til everything is retail, and all the new games come out this month.. Im making no judgement on any of the "new" stuff yet.. ATI has alot of catchup to do.. 6XXX series slaughtered and the 7XXX is just flat out gaining more of a lead..







As far as ram talk, 2 gigs, if you cant afford it, and already have 1 gig, start saving.. Games are getting more and more ram dependent, and honestly, i dont know HOW i played WoW, BF2, and a few others without 2 gigs of ram..



D5A1AC:


--- Quote from: krick on October 08, 2005, 07:07:30 pm ---the fans are always really crappy and fail after a year or two even with regular cleaning.

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What card did this happen on? It seems odd because I've never had a video card fan die on me. It actually is possible to replace pretty well any video card fan - Some people even replace their stock coolers with large heatsinks and fans designed for processors for extra cooling.

SOAPboy:


--- Quote from: D5A1AC on October 08, 2005, 11:14:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: krick on October 08, 2005, 07:07:30 pm ---the fans are always really crappy and fail after a year or two even with regular cleaning.

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What card did this happen on? It seems odd because I've never had a video card fan die on me. It actually is possible to replace pretty well any video card fan - Some people even replace their stock coolers with large heatsinks and fans designed for processors for extra cooling.

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Well, when you put a card in, then "forget about it" and never clean them, itll die..

;)

D5A1AC:

I haven't touched mine since I bought it in early 2004 and it's showing no signs of failure yet, but this is almost o/t.

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