Which High-End GPU Would You Buy this Fall?

Just taking a little poll to gauge your guys' opinions on graphics cards. I am looking for a high end solution to compliment my conroe rig. Gaming at high rezzes and high details is important for me. Don't want to upgrade for at least six months, hopefully more. Like when Crysis comes out, maybe. (End of March, early April '07).

As anyone here who knows me, Oblivion is my game of choice atm. Leaning towards the x1900xt because of the value, but considering splurging on the 1950 to squeeze out a few extra frames with AA and HDR enabled. I tossed the current nVidia champs in there for fairness' sake.

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I can't answer your question as it totally depends on pricing. I'd take any of them as an upgrade from my current card except the 7900GTX. Most likely it would take an incredible price to make me buy anything before seeing G80 vs. R600. But Say a $200 X1900XT, or $300 X1950XTX or sub $350 GX2, I'd jump on that.

If you are talking hypothetical, just pick one. I'd be hoping to find a bargain on the X1950XTX to get high fps and IQ, as well as the heatsink/fan. Since I use AA+HDR in Oblivion and sometimes farcry, not having that support is a personal turnoff for the GF7's, including the beastly GX2.

That's where I was going when saying the X1950XTX. But if I could wrestle the gun aways and point it at him, I'd make him buy me two X1950XTX's.

Yeah you should buy the better card to make up for her beating you in games.

I wouldn't buy any that you listed, I'd wait for the directX 10 compatable cards. I read the Nvidia one will be out i like 3 weeks anyway.

You know what, OC'ersUK has X1950XTX's on their site for preorder, but prices are £279.95. That's £100 over the X1900XT and £90 over the HIS iceQ X1900XT. 8O

500 of them arriving Sept 11th.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acat [...] eries.html

Looks like I'll have to pay a premium if I want to lord my new card over her head. Just gonna have to wait and see what the pricing/availability is like across the pond (in Canada, eh).

I would honestly get the x1900xt, but I already have a noise machine (aka a yappy dog) and a space heater. The heat pipes on the 1950 look too cool (pun intended) to turn down.

None of the above; G80 will be out later this fall and guaranteed to outperform all of the said cards. Now the R600 will be a very competitive if not better core, although the wait should be a little longer.

New? Nope....

Honestly the GPU market moves in less sever increments than the CPU LC.
Look recently....went from 130 to 110, to 90 now to 80nm.....

I'm not saying Nv can't get away with it, but it would be a foolish move imo.

I felt I had to vote 7900 gtx as I just bought one but I am sure that any of these cards would be great, if you can afford it go with the 7950, that will definitely keep you goin till next year

I would go with any of the cards selected there. I already have 2 7900GTXs in my system, and will hold me over until DX10 and vista. The dire need for people to upgrade right now is understandable, but just out of curiousity, why go all out and purchase a 5-550 dollar card anyway, when DX10 is coming close to the end of the year, and their price is gonna be even higher? Personally, i have low source of income at this point(damn arabs milking our cash for their gas) And I saved my pennies to build the system i have now.

None, got my X1900GT for a reason. This will easily last me until I need a next-gen card/Vista.

X1950XTX pwns all. Considering it's a further improvement to a classic "single core" card, it disses the 7950gx2.

Of course the X1950XT(X) will be the best performer, but it should mean significant price drops on the X1900XT which is already a very good value, meaning it'll just be a steal. So I'm voting X1900XT. As a matter of fact, I'll stick with my X800XL AGP, thank you.

And let's not talk about the nVidia "counterparts". They got butchered and skewered in Oblivion and that's just the beginning.

If I had to buy one now the x1950xtx for sure. I am however waiting on a better MB choice for my C2Duo build so either prices will hopefully be even lower for the GPU or the new DX10 cards will start trickling out. Sometimes a brief wait can be win/win

You forgot the answer "none" I'm waiting for DX10, at least gen2..

what you on about?!?! The 9700pro was a fantastic card! It was only around 5% slower than the 9800pro. A 9700pro is still a very usable card today!

exactly. Nv vs. ATI arguments aside, the 9700pro IMO is the greatest single card ever made to this point. Better than the energizer bunny, each driver rev gained more performance, and as game devs started unlocking more of dx9's potential that card just rose up to meet the challenge. My wife still games on my old one that is oc'd a bit and it runs even bf2 very well. Not sure what "drift" he was getting at, but if any of the new cards were going to be the "9700pro of dx10" then sign me up! My 9700pro was my main gaiming rig for over 3 years, and ran every new game I threw at it.

strange poll too... "high-end gpu"? where is the 1900xtx? I like my xt, but the xtx is better, and goes toe-to-toe w/ the 79gtx. Ya the 1950 beats them all, but why omit that one? oh well...

I voted for the X1900XT as for me it's the best bang for the buck (~280 after mail-in-rebate).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814127206

Now, if money is no object then the GX2 is the way to go.

Assuming you're wanting to run Oblivion on a 20" at 1600x1050 from your other thread, the X1950XTX pumps out an AWESOME 1.1 fps more at 1600x1200 on the following benchmark:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/sho [...] i=2821&p=8

There's a reason to spend ~200 USD more!!

And considering the GX2 is 65 bucks more on pricewatch and does 5.2 fps better on Oblivion (1600x1200) than the X1950XT, for super high-end, the GX2 is the winner hands down.

If I didn't already have a X1900 XTX, I'd go for the X1950 XT(X). I think waiting for DX10 is a bit dumb. Vista has been delayed over and over again, so does anyone really know when Microsoft will release it?

As far as waiting for a G80 or R600, if they were coming out next month, sure I would wait, but when they are 4 months or more away, and thus even closer to the Vista/DX10 debute, I wouldn't wait. The waiting game just becomes an excuse to do nothing.

Alright honky, your on... But I'm going to switch up my choice on the first part. You can post your picture: and I'll come up with something decent real soon. But you got a deal. I"ll claim the G80 or its its 2nd flagship will be 80nm along side of the 80nm R600.

We got witness' too. Alright; now, we just need a time machine to fast forward to the holiday season.

You know what; cancel that.

If the G80 is going to be realesed in September and not the holiday season like it should be, I think wusy is probably in the right with this one.

Plus it makes more sense, I just needed to think... the design for the GPU was tapped out before 80nm sampling was readily available from either TMC or TSMC....so this in itself leads to an obvious answer; the G80 (in Sept) should be 90nm. However if there's a G80X2 or G850....then I'm quite confident that it would be 80nm.


And no Wusy, this isnt a victory and you not allowed to post that pic; save it for another bet, because I didnt lose....I simply conceeded to the possible truth.

Sapphire X1900XT
MSI X1900XT Crossfire Master card....

Newegg, shipped total $777.98


I'll take XF for Oblivion thx.

More proof to just love Ohio people

From what I've been hearing, the G80 should be available sometime in September; if that is the case, would you honestly let a little heat stop you from getting a card that's basically guaranteed to perform much better than anything else on the market?