Help needed choosing the best.

Hi Guys!

After having struggled with this problem for a while, i decided to join these forums to try and get some help. So here i go:

Being one of the people that got left on AGP-Island, i have been thinking about upgrading my machine. I mostly use my computer for everyday stuff, and i play a bit of World of Warcraft (Wich my old GeforceFX 5700 pulls of just fine). But sometimes even WoW can be choppy, and things like Oblivion even on the lowest settings are not even possible.

Having never used anything else then Nvidia cards, i turned to them for a solution at first. The Geforce 7800GS popped up. It comes in various flavours, running at standard speed, and some cards overclocked. It seems like i can get a pretty good bang for my buck there.

Reading around these forums, i find that there is a card called Radeon "x1950". From what i can read, this card is better. Is this true? If so, how does it compare to the 7800 GS? I checked a few online stores here in Denmark, and oddly the X1950 is priced MUCH lower then the Geforce 7900 GS.

Geforce 7800 GS

X1950

The site is in danish, naturally, but you should be able to check if i'm looking at the correct models, and the prices

And before you go overboard about cheap Socket 478 PCI-E Motherboard upgrades, i can tell you that i decided to wait with the full system overhaul a bit longer. I am going for the AGP upgrade.

I'm running an ASUS P4P800-E Motherboard with a P4 3 GHZ HT CPU, and 2x 512 MB RAM.

Thanks in advance

i agree 100%
x1950 is definitely the one you want

My bad. Though the Pro is in both flavors, he's clearly getting an AGP. Bear with me, I'm in a PCIe frame of mind. I just remembered that's a selling point for the PCIe version, so I blurted it out. He he.