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I'm probably going to pick up an MSI GeForceFX 5900XT 128MB tomorrow. If anyone has any reason why I shouldn't, or why a Sapphire 9800Pro 128MB would be a better buy, speak now, or forever hold your peace. 
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Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry Cox -
get the 6800GT
I won't get the 5900XT, i'd rather go for the 9800pro if u don't need good linux/bsd support. 5900XT is slow in shaders, i don't think it will run half life well...
ati is rumoured to be rewriting their OGL drivers, so maybe performance maybe better with OGL on ATI cards soon... (doom 3!) -
You didn't say what your gonna use the 5900XT for. If its Linux, then go for it. If your gonna game and use windows mainly, then I don't see why you wouldn't get the ATI 9800 Pro. Its flat out faster than the 5900XT for gaming. Except for maybe Doom3.Go Bunny GO!
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It's for windows only. I do plan to get doom3, but that certainly won't be the only game I'll be playing.
6800GT isn't an option. I refuse to spend $600 (canadian) on a video card. So the 9800Pro is really faster than the 5900XT at most things?Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry CoxComment
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absolutely, the 9800Pro is faster and nicer and has much better rendering quality.80% of people think I should be in a Mental Institute
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Alrighty then... 9800Pro it is.Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry CoxComment
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or a 6800 standard version for less than $300 and its much faster than a 9800pro and the image quality is now equal, imo.P4b@2.7, AOpen ax4spe max II, 4X Parhelia 128 with Zalman zm80c and fan -or- ATI Radeon X800GTO, 1024mb.Comment
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What are you going to do with your old card eh? Maybe give it to Zokes, you know...
Titanium is the new bling!
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$300? Not in canadian dollars it ain't.Originally posted by gangster
or a 6800 standard version for less than $300 and its much faster than a 9800pro and the image quality is now equal, imo.Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry CoxComment
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You really want a Radeon 8500LE with a broken fan?Originally posted by ZokesPro
What are you going to do with your old card eh? Maybe give it to Zokes, you know...
Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry CoxComment
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I'm loving my 6800 GT. It's pretty sweet. Though I still need to do a re-install or something of Windows. Since I'm pretty sure I should be getting more than just 14k in 3dmark01.... though in 3dmark03 I'm getting around 10k...
Odd thing is, I had it overclocked to 6800 Ultra speeds, but it didn't get any higher in 3dmark03... maybe because Overnet was running in the background...
LeechWah! Wah!
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Sure, why not?Originally posted by agallag
You really want a Radeon 8500LE with a broken fan?
Titanium is the new bling!
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What do you have now, Zokes?
By the way, I haven't bought the new card yet. They were sold out. I'll probably order one this week if they don't get more in stock.Lady, people aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive, bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine. -- Dr. Perry CoxComment
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6800 non-Ultra/GT should be quite a lot cheaper than the 6800GT/Ultra varients, because it has only 12 pipes "enabled"
Performance its like 9800XT iirc.
On a side note, nvidia rendering quality is not worse than ati rendering anymore. I think you can force the real trilinear filtering in the new forceware drivers (i seen it on mine).
I haven't run any 3d games these days tho, so i cannot give you guys the absolute answer on 3d rendering quality (too much work!!!!)
I am waiting for a GeForce 6600 personally... those i think won't cost an arm and can play both HL2 and D3 reasonably well imo.Comment
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New ForceWare drivers=evil
with either of the 61.7x drivers tvout doesnt work with my card. also, it messes up all of my nview stuff. that said, the 56.72 drivers (or whatever the latest were before 6x.xx) work great, iq is awesome.
been playin doom3 a bit today, running great!
as for you video card decision, 9800pro is a wise choice.Q9450 + TRUE, G.Skill 2x2GB DDR2, GTX 560, ASUS X48, 1TB WD Black, Windows 7 64-bit, LG M2762D-PM 27" + 17" LG 1752TX, Corsair HX620, Antec P182, Logitech G5 (Blue)
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