sammyh

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But which one? around the £200 mark if poss although I could be presuaded to spend a bit more if its worth it

What do guys suggest?

Thanks

Sam

JayPSC

9800pro is the only decent one out at the mo for £150+, unless you wanna wait a few weeks for the new Radeons, they should be more like £250 though but worth the extra.

what would scooby do

I've got a 9800 pro - brilliant !!!

lightning101

You can get a 9800XT 256mb for that amount now - try the SAPHIRE range - comes with video in and out and Svideo, twin monitor convertor etc - is just an overclocked pro really but with higher quality ram.


http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=56692

or


http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=55189

with half life 2 and some other retail sh1te.

MR Fusion

I read in this month's 'Custom PC' magazine that it's possible to flash the BIOS of the 9800 Pro to that of a 9800 XT. Has anyone had any success doing this? Might save £60 on a 'real' XT card!

JayPSC

You wont notice any diff between the pro & XT anyway unless you doing gfx benchmarks. You can just overclock the pro to XT speeeds anyway rather than risk flashing it.

Daz34

I would wait a month for the new Radeons & NVidias to arrive

john_s

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I'm with Daz34... hold on till the new cards arrive - the prices for the old ones will come down, so you'll be able to either get a decent card for cheap money, or an absolutely blinding card for a fair pile of cash.

The benchmarks for the new nvidia cards look pretty hot.

John.

ChrisB

Another vote for waiting for the Radeon X800 series and the other GeForce 6800 models.

X800 Pro should be around end of May IIRC.

J1nxy

I would think that both the new ATI and Nvidia cards are going to be somewhere around the 300-400 mark on release and are likely to push the price of the 9800XT and 5950 down a bit.

For the 130-150 price the 9800pro is a bloody good buy and for everything but the very latest stuff running at very high res it should be plenty...Far Cry runs rather well on my 9800 pro ay 1280x1024x32 bit with everything max'd out.

sammyh

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Thanks, it looks like i'm going for a 9800pro but there seems to be two versions @ 128 and 256k, is the 256 much better?

lightning101

The 256mb is for handling large texture maps - useful if you are a 3D designer, but makes no diffrence playing games (have checked).

jase555

i managed to get a radeon 9800np, powercolor variety from ocuk

out of the box with samsung memory and it overclocks to PRO speeds no problems without flashing bios, might well do XT but as far as i am concerned PRO is fine