Need advice on GFX card under £200

[Nosufer]

Just building a new PC and i have seen various views and comments on many many boards, what do you think is the best bang for buck in terms of graphics cards.

Ones i have been looking at are the 6800GT, 6800GS and the 6800Ultra.

Any advice welcome

 

[Ryuno]

AGP or PCI-E?

 

[Nosufer]

PCI-E sorry

 

[Naffets]

7800GTX or X1800XT imo.

Both cracking cards Personally, i have an X1800XL. Paid 230 for it at time of purchase, you can get an X1800XT for £170 from http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_X1800_Series_705.html#agx_2d121_2dsp

what you will get:

Full pixel shader 3 support
HDR _with_ AA (Nvidia cards dont do this, apparently?)
A crossfire compatible card
256mb of gddr3 running at a decent rate

Im an ati fanboi so ofc ill pull the ati line, no doubt others here will recommend nvidia.

 

[confused]

You should be looking in the 7900gt to 1800xl region to be perfectly honest you'll notice very little difference, between them unless the game you're playing specifically likes a particular brand.. e.g. oblvion - ATI

 

[Darzil]

At the moment, I'd personally either spend more, and go for a 7900 GTX, or less, and enjoy the silence that comes with a Gigabyte Fanless 6600GT. The silent one is fine for Camelot, and makes for very quiet gaming.

Darzil

 

[Joor]

Gainward Geforce 7900 GT £194.95
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_7900_Series_358.html

Awesome performance!

 

[Naffets]

joor you nvidia fanboi! <33

 

[Coolan]

Have a look around at a few websites, the most recommend as far as cost to performance goes, alot of sites/people recommend the Geforce 7800gt, theres not much they cant run and are generaly cheaper than the gtx version and cheaper than the 18/1900's

 

[Ingafgrinn Macabre]

Have a look around at a few websites, the most recommend as far as cost to performance goes, alot of sites/people recommend the Geforce 7800gt, theres not much they cant run and are generaly cheaper than the gtx version and cheaper than the 18/1900's

Agree with coolan on this...

Also, if you do some CAD work, nVidia is the way to go aswell.
Somehow, don't know why but I presume the OpenGL support from nVidia, makes CAD programs like Unigraphics and Inventor run soo much smoother on nV graphics cards

 

[Nosufer]

Thanks for the advice, i decided to go with the 7900GT.