My new build you choose my Video Card.

My budget is about $325.00. I plan to play BF2 and CSS. My thoughts lead me to the XFX (Fanless) 7950 GT so I can SLI later and I just bought the 25 cm fan for the side of my case. Cleave says X1900XT; will this work in my Mobo? I wish the 7900 GTX would come down in price. I can't wait for DX10.

Thank you in advance.
The Jazzman

Thanks, but there is no way one 7600 can compare to the 7950 GT. Should I really go to ATI? I have an SLI Mobo. It will be some time until I buy another. How would two 7600 GT's compare to one X1900XT?

X1900 GT, best card for $200. Unless you have a monster monitor it will run ut2007 just fine. Plus it will give you extra cash for a physics card.



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The 7950GT is a pretty good card. Its about as fast as the 256MB version of the x1900xt. It is however slower then the 512MB version. There should be no problems getting an ATI card to work on an NF motherboard. A PCIe slot is a PCIe slot.

This would be the fastest card.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814121554
Its about $350, and the 7950GT can only get close. If all you care about is pure speed, this is the card to get.

If $325 is the limit, this is the next "fastest."
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102051
For a mere $257, you get a lot of gaming goodness. (the price does drop to $242 once that rebate comes in.)

Now we get to Nvidia.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814170104
This is the cheapest 7950GT 512mb card I found. $297 before rebate, $282 after. Considering that this card trades blows with the x1900xt 256MB card, I find it hard to spend the extra $50 on this card.

Lastly, you talked about SLI. First, two 7600GTs in SLI isn't going to get close to an x1900xt or a 7950GT. Second, the cost of running two 7950GTs in SLI would be almost $600. If your looking to spend that much, you should consider the 7950GX2. (not to mention its completely out of your price range. SLI/CF isn't all its cracked up to be, don't worry to much if you never use it.

i would say go with the x1900 as it will work great
after dx10 is out for a couple of months then think about
sli.

I never said that a 7600 can compare to a 7950GT. I just said if someone was on a budget, that the 7600 for $120 is the way to go.

Don't waste the extra 100 on a X1900XT 512MB. The price/performance over the 256MB version isn't worth it.

7900GTO? its a underclocked (memory) GTX, but the chips are the same. Only issue is I doubt you'd be able to get another one to SLI with in 6 months, actually more like 3 months. But unless you are at silly res then there is little point in SLI really.

Since your budget is $325, Zipzoomfly has the X1900XT 512MB for $329.99. Based on this price, I am changing my position from my earlier statement.

Edit: Newegg actually has the X1900XT 512MB for $326.12 now.

If you have the money then go with the X1900XT 512MB, otherwise, the X1900XT still can't be beat on price/performance. Here's a little analysis I did using benchmarks from Anandtech.

Edit: Clean-up and corrections to my ealier price/perf chart.

Can you include the 7900GTO?, not sure of the US pricing but it is a GTX effectively. (ram is underclocked, but is fine to OC)

Good points, Thanks for the list. The GTO looks to be a real sweet spot now. I wish there was more info on the GTO, but this looks like the answer to my wishing the GTX price to come down. I am liking that card and and it will leave some extra cash for another Hard drive. Phyics card is now out of the question. The X1900XT still has me undecided. This Thursday I'll be buying it.

Thanks,