Think this 7900 is safe?

[necroshine67]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130028

It's not overclocked, plus the ram is covered.
I'm just a bit on the shadey side since hardly anyone has reviewed it.
if these things fail with in 3 days whats to say will happen in 3 months?
i know evga gives a life time warrenty but i don't trust a company that puts out a bad gpu then has the nerve to put out not one but two other cards after, before fixing the problem with the 7900gt.
i've been debating, reading this forum, and looking at benchmarks for months now trying to choose a video card. it's between the 7900gt or the x1800xt.
i've never owned an ati card so i'm not sure on that. i'm using an old geforce 3 in agp 1x right now lol. don't worry my motherboard has an agp and pci-ex slot.
I just want the best bang for the buck, with something i can trust to use for a while.



It's all fun and games untill someone loses an eye " serious Sam "

 

[Giraffe]

the 7900gt is better performance and value than the x1800xt
it also uses less power and runs cooler 8)

u should be able to trust the card if not go with an asus or gigabyte maybe
and theres nothin wrong with ati cards

 

[necroshine67]

lol the asus card is about 50 bucks more and has king kong on it haha..
msi has the cheapest price on newegg, but lots of rma's on that card.

 

[enforcerfx]

did u just say your motherboard has a AGP AND a PCI-e slot? Thats by far impossible if your going to get a PCI-e gfx card. If your currently using a AGP based motherboard, your gonna have to rip it out, and put in a PCI-e compatible motherboard in order for your 7900GTKO to fit in there.

 

[pengwin]

did u just say your motherboard has a AGP AND a PCI-e slot? Thats by far impossible if your going to get a PCI-e gfx card. If your currently using a AGP based motherboard, your gonna have to rip it out, and put in a PCI-e compatible motherboard in order for your 7900GTKO to fit in there.

goodness, 3 noobs helping someone, continue, this should be funny.



sigh, fine ill help.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081

mobo w/ AGP + PCI-e x16.

Nvidia cards have a lifetimewarranty. if something goes wrong with ur card eVGA will fix or replace it for free.

 

[dvdpiddy]

did u just say your motherboard has a AGP AND a PCI-e slot? Thats by far impossible if your going to get a PCI-e gfx card. If your currently using a AGP based motherboard, your gonna have to rip it out, and put in a PCI-e compatible motherboard in order for your 7900GTKO to fit in there.

goodness, 3 noobs helping someone, continue, this should be funny.



sigh, fine ill help.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081

mobo w/ AGP + PCI-e x16.

Nvidia cards have a lifetimewarranty. if something goes wrong with ur card eVGA will fix or replace it for free. Lol peng. Hey what happened to your sig?

 

[pengwin]

its still there, i changed it a bit.

 

[clue69less]

Nvidia cards have a lifetimewarranty. if something goes wrong with ur card eVGA will fix or replace it for free.

That is true. If you're as unlucky as me, they will keep sending you defective cards for months on end. I gave up on the 7900GT in my video editing box after 4.5 months, switched to an 1800XT and have been happy ever since. Similarly, I couldn't get any of the 7900GTXs that they kept shipping me to run in my game box so after three bad cards, I switched to a 1900XT and have been happy ever since.

 

[pengwin]

heh, its luck either way. i've heard of stories with ATi and with Nvidia, i guess its luck of the draw. Most ppl get non-defective cards.

 

[xcryonicx]

It does seem, though that this particular Geforce line has a flaring problem. I'm considering returning my 7900GT CO before I even open it back to Newegg, and getting an X1800XT..

 

[Wgfalcon]

there are a couple of mb with both pcie and agp the asrock board off the top of my head.

i just bought a evga 7900gt co superclocked for my new rig and i'm running an evga 7800gs co superclocked in my current machine works great life time warranty a 90 day upgrade policy hard to beat.

 

[necroshine67]

i was on a budget, so i decided i'd wait on buying a video card. i got the biostar tforce4u motherboard and popped my old geforce in it.
newegg went down 30 bucks on the the 64 chips 2 days after i got mine, so that's how my luck goes. so the 3500 is the same price as i bought my 3200.
i did a lot of research here for all my parts. plus read alot of reviews on newegg. i bought everything around the 7900gt, psu that supports it, nforce4 chipset, amd64 3200+ and ocz plat new revision ram in duel channel.
i read that evga and other companies were supposed to make updated 7900gt's to fix the problems, but that's been months ago. i don't think they're worried about fixing a defective product since the gtx and 7950 have come out. why fix a $250 card when people are spending twice as much on the others. i heard the x1800xt is a power hog, and my psu has 36 amps on the 12 rail but mine has it on two 12 rails not one, the ati fanboys said i need 34 on one main 12 rail. so i just don't know what to do. buy a deffective nvidia card or buy an ati that i might not be able to power.

 

[pauldh]

the 7900gt is better performance and value than the x1800xt

I don't agree with that statement at all. The two cards are neck and neck, if anything the X1800XT would be the winner when high res and eye candy are used. Plus the X1800XT is cheaper in it's 256Mb form, and can do FSAA and OpenEXR HDR at once. SHoot, the X1800XT has been down around $220 at times.

And just in case you think the 256MB version would lose to 7900GT since most reviews show 512MB ones, read this review. The X1800XT out muscles the 7900GT in the end showing alot more power in high res fsaa tests.

 

[necroshine67]

Hey thanks for that review, it was most helpful
I just wish the had bf2 in that review and CS:Source.
looking at newegg reviews, the x1800xt would be a better and MUCH SAFER buy than the 7900GT, but still the power issues scare me. my psu has 19 on the 1st 12 rail and 17 on the 2nd 12 rail. the ati forums said 30 on a single 12 rail only. So i'm leaning toward the x1800xt, only if i don't have to buy a new psu.

 

[pauldh]

With 19A and 17A 12V rails you will be fine. My X1800XT is in a loaded down system with an antec true control 550W, which has 2-19A 12v rails. But I'd benched the X1800XT in a system with an Antec Smart Power 2.0 power supply that has 10A and 15A 12V rails...way under yours. Zero stability issues although just one HDD and one Optical in that machine.

 

[necroshine67]

right now i'm pushing 12.29 on the 12v.
running an amd64 3200+, one cr-rom, one sata hd, and 1 gig of mem, 2-2-2-5.
the x1800xt looks like a great bang for the buck 8)
thank for all your help

 

[ZOldDude]

All the lower stock speed cards I have tested seem to OC (via software) to the same area as the higer speed/priced 7900GT. Even at the lowest stock speeds those cards put out more than the human eye can see....so paying more becuse a non real life "benchmark" says it "wins" will not let you SEE any thing you can notice.

You also get the lifetime warrenty....and @ $30 less than the list price for a GT ($299). Remember it was just a few months ago that every shop in the world was scalping people and chargeing $30-60 OVER list price.

Get the card and you will be happy.

 

[pauldh]

I just wish the had bf2 in that review and CS:Source.

Both cards will eat up BF2 and CS:Source. You'll be able to crank the eye candy in those games. Oblivion and COD2 will be harder challengers (for any card).

[H] found bf2 playable at 1600x1200 4X Adaptive AA and High Quality AF:
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTAzMywxMSwsaGVudGh1c2lhc3Q=

quote:
"The RX1800XT was playable at 4X Adaptive AA at 1600x1200 and also brought in great performance. The game looked fantastic."