What video card

[p_o_s_pc]

What video card would be better a Nvidia 8600 GTS 256mb ATI X1950xt 256mb
Here are the links
The 8600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127284
The X1950xt
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102067
My X1950 pro went out:cry: and i don't have money for a 8800 I am using windows XP and i am NOT going with vista any time soon.
I should have got a diffrent video card when i built my gaming computer.:nutkick: :slap: :banghead:
Thanks for the help:rockout:

[erocker]

Wait 1 month then see what is offered.

[p_o_s_pc]

I can't wait i don't have any thing than a onboard video card getting about 5fps or 28fps with low settings that is in NFSU2

[ktr]

go for a cheap x1950gt (OC to a pro and further) ...its cost around 110 bucks after MIR...then save the rest until prices drop and more cards come out.

[p_o_s_pc]

I loved my X1950pro.I RMA but i am getting a refund because newegg no longer sells the one i had.

[p_o_s_pc]

Please out of the 2 cards tell me what one will be better.

[Ketxxx]

I vote X1950GT or if you can find it for little difference 1950Pro, then slap a VF900 on it. Doing that will make it worth a reasonable amount even when the ATi DX10 parts come out,

[ktr]

Please out of the 2 cards tell me what one will be better.

as you said, you aint going towards vista and dx10, so get the 1950xt...

[p_o_s_pc]

Thanks.Are there any other video card that are $200 or less?PCI-E

[erocker]

The Sapphire X1950XT is going for $179.00 right now! If the new stuff wasn't coming out in 2 weeks I'd pick that right up.:D

[p_o_s_pc]

Will prices be going down any lower?

[x800professor]

Will prices be going down any lower?

After the R600s hit the market? Probably. I wouldn't touch a sapphire X1950XT with a 10 foot pole and someone else's arms holding the pole. I had two of them...both died. Every ATI lover on the forum blamed every other part of my computer for their untimely deaths...but the same system has been kind to my 8800GTS.

[erocker]

Your mobo is the DEVIL!!! It only plays nice with it's own kind anyways...

[x800professor]

Your mobo is the DEVIL!!! It only plays nice with it's own kind anyways...

Didn't hurt the ATI card I had sitting in it while I waited for the X1950XT to come back off of RMA. It is the devil, but the X1950XTs killed themselves.

[ktr]

Will prices be going down any lower?

if you are looking for something cheap, go for the x1950gt...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102034

and a simple oc to the pro...

[p_o_s_pc]

if you are looking for something cheap, go for the x1950gt...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102034

and a simple oc to the pro...

I am not looking for cheap i am looking for good also some thing that will last.:roll:

[ktr]

to last is to go for next generation...which you dont have money for ;)

[p_o_s_pc]

Forget it i will go cheap http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102050
That should be able to play my games fine and i will be able to WC my CPU sooner if i do that.Than when i get the money go to a better card.

[Grings]

noooooo!, get an x1950 (even the gt)

[p_o_s_pc]

Why?

[p_o_s_pc]

How about this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150231

[Grings]

the gt's only $5 more after rebate, and a whole lot quicker

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102034

[erocker]

Absolutely get the x1950GT.

[p_o_s_pc]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102022
Would that do good?

[p_o_s_pc]

My wireless mouse is dead time to charge it.Also i have been up along time i am going to bed.Please post i will check back when i awake.Please post ANY PCI-E it can be nvidia or ATI as long as it is $90-$200

[Zubasa]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102022
Would that do good?
This X1900GT is pretty much on par with the X1950Pro if you don't go CF.

[yogurt_21]

the 1950gt is cheaper after rebate than the 1900gt.

[ktr]

the 1950gt is cheaper after rebate than the 1900gt.

though the 1900gt is a tad faster than the 1950gt, but it cannot do crossfire.

[p_o_s_pc]

though the 1900gt is a tad faster than the 1950gt, but it cannot do crossfire.

I can't use crossfire any way.I am using a Nforce 4 chipset.:banghead: some times i fell like some one should have :nutkick: me when i told them i was getting that.

[ktr]

if you have the uli south bridge, then you can do crossfire...

[m3lisk]

Well, I don't know if you bought your new card already but this one looks pretty nice.

x1950xt for $179.99 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102067)

Plus its crossfire ready so if you ever decide to pick up a crossfire mobo you can crossfire and get r600 performance(maybe).

[ktr]

Well, I don't know if you bought your new card already but this one looks pretty nice.

x1950xt for $179.99 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102067)

Plus its crossfire ready so if you ever decide to pick up a crossfire mobo you can crossfire and get r600 performance(maybe).

lol, you switch from a x1950pro 512mb to a 1950xt 256mb...;)

[m3lisk]

lol, you switch from a x1950pro 512mb to a 1950xt 256mb...;)

Meh, I checked some benches and the XTX 256mb beats PRO 512mb, and the XT can be easily overclocked to XTX speed, so why not, you know?

[p_o_s_pc]

I haven't got any thing yet I think i am just going to keep using the 6100 that is onboard till ATI puts there new GPU out.I am going to just WC my CPU and wait till than.By than the prices should be down if not i will have more money.I hope to get a 8800GS after the prices go down some and i have more money.Thanks for the help.:).
If you have any thing you would like to say just say it.

[m3lisk]

I haven't got any thing yet I think i am just going to keep using the 6100 that is onboard till ATI puts there new GPU out.I am going to just WC my CPU and wait till than.By than the prices should be down if not i will have more money.I hope to get a 8800GS after the prices go down some and i have more money.Thanks for the help.:).
If you have any thing you would like to say just say it.

I agree with your desicion.:toast:

[p_o_s_pc]

Thanks

[D007]

Thanks.Are there any other video card that are $200 or less?PCI-E

man for about 40 more bucks over 200 u could get an 8800 gts 320 mb..lol.. unless your somehwere prices are crazy at.. and it oc's like a beast..

[p_o_s_pc]

man for about 40 more bucks over 200 u could get an 8800 gts 320 mb..lol.. unless your somehwere prices are crazy at.. and it oc's like a beast..

I am just going to WC for now than when the ATI video card is out i am going to get a 8800.What 8800 is the lower end one?

[ktr]

I am just going to WC for now than when the ATI video card is out i am going to get a 8800.What 8800 is the lower end one?

the gts 320mb...

[p_o_s_pc]

thanks i couldn't rember

[m3lisk]

Why wait for ATI to come out to buy an nVidia card? Why not buy the new ATI card if you're waiting for it to come out?

[p_o_s_pc]

Why wait for ATI to come out to buy an nVidia card? Why not buy the new ATI card if you're waiting for it to come out?

The prices should be lower on the Nvidia than the ATI.

[m3lisk]

But ATI is better...

[p_o_s_pc]

But ATI is better...

Maybe but if i don't have the money for on i will get the Nvidia.We will see what the prices are on both when the ATI one is out.:laugh: