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NeXuS8 · Nov 02, 2005, 08:23 PM // 20:23

Yea i hope ATI can come back something to compete with the SLI havent checked the new cards from ATI

cannonfodder · Nov 02, 2005, 08:34 PM // 20:34

Well i'm not so sure how good Crossfire is going to be from ATI, however unlike sli where the cards hace to be identical, in crossfire it doesn't, so you can have say 1 top of the range card, and one lesser, now that to me is a great idea, although it doesn't convince me yet, so I think nvidia my be the daddies on that score, but if ATI get crossfire to work as they say it will, 2 x1800xt's would be a whole lot faster than 2 7800gtx's in sli, though the normal joe public wont be able to afford £1000 or so for 2 graphics cards.. But as we all know this war will never end

Well the new x1800xt's arrive in the uk nov28th, one site has some x1800xl's in stock, but at £470 a shot, is a bit excessive, especially when I forked out £400 for my 7800

NeXuS8 · Nov 02, 2005, 08:53 PM // 20:53

will x1800 be better than 7800 havent checked those new cards

cannonfodder · Nov 02, 2005, 09:10 PM // 21:10

The top of the range one x1800xt will a bit faster than the 7800gtx, the specs for the ati card are roughly core at about 650 mhz and the memory about 1.5ghz, plus a new way the memory controller works(though I dont understand this fully yet), so on raw grunt ati is a bit more powerful, considering the new ati card only has 16 pixel pipelines compared to 20 on the 7800gtx(although it in reality its still only 16)

TopGun · Nov 02, 2005, 09:22 PM // 21:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by eloshuayeshu

I am trying to decide wether to buy a 6600GT 128MB (faster) or a 6600 256MB (more memory).

My question is really specific to guild wars and no other game. Which card would offer me the best looking graphics when playing GW.

Right now I am running GW on a Geforce2 MX (hard to believe, but true). Both cards will run better than the MX but I am leaning to the 128. Please correct my logic: if my CPU can push the MX to run (well enough), coupled with the fast GPU on the 6600GT 128, GW should fly and have the same graphic quality of a 6600 256.

Which card will make GW look the "coolest"?

I went through this, and after an examination of the benchmarks, the GT model is a far better card- you can do a google and look for the stats. The 6600GT 128MB is probably the best bang you can get for your buck as far as video cards.

But GW isn't that graphically intensive, anyway.

Buy the 6600GT 128MB, don't even hesitate.

The Son Of Morgoth · Nov 03, 2005, 05:32 AM // 05:32

LOL im using an intel like 900gl 128 graphics card or something with 1gig ram and gw runs max details for me without prob...how is this?

dont feel no pain · Nov 03, 2005, 07:14 AM // 07:14

because in my opinion ram = speed i used to have a 64 mb radeon 7000(very old) and 256 ram and it was ----! but then i updated my graphic card to a 256Mb radeoan 9550 and itwas stilll realy realy slow to in the end i bought anotehr 256 mb ram chip to pyt in the 2nd slot that would make my total ram 512mb and it works a treat now.

Achilles_Lord · Nov 03, 2005, 07:15 AM // 07:15

i dont know.. but i wish i had something a little more powerful.. i have everything on lowest and it lags like hell.. time to invest in a new computer

NeXuS8 · Nov 03, 2005, 04:27 PM // 16:27

Go with AMD 64 at least 3000+ and at least a gig of ram new games are coming out need high specs like HL 2 Lost Coast that shit rec like AMD 3500+ 1 gig RAM and NVDIA 6800 AT X850 min specs to run it

Josh · Nov 03, 2005, 05:12 PM // 17:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by NeXuS8

Go with AMD 64 at least 3000+ and at least a gig of ram new games are coming out need high specs like HL 2 Lost Coast that shit rec like AMD 3500+ 1 gig RAM and NVDIA 6800 AT X850 min specs to run it

Heh, good good, because I funnily enough, I'm buying an AMD Athlon 64 (Venice) 3.5GHz processor and upgrading from 768 to 1024MB RAM.