lola said: Hello, Im interested in buying a new video card but i don’t want to buy something i can’t get the max out off or is too much for my system.
The main point of this thread is to give "lola" the best choice for his oney and gaming experiance. With that said.
The Ati 1950gt series (with only 12 pipelines and cheaper by $90 on the 7950gt) maybe can run most current games at medium settings.
Now the XFX new 7900/7950 agp series cards (run at 20 for the 7900GT or 24 pipelines for the 7950GT), you can run at High graphic settings for games out now and those in current pipeline. Plus XFX has Double Full Lifetime warranty on there graphic cards.
Both the ATI 1950gt and XFX 7900GT/7950GT need an extra power supply connection. Plus no doubt that both ATI & Nvidia have other agp cards coming out for the 2400/2600 & 8000 series in near future to run on Vista and use dx10, but only using 32 Stream Processors at least (since they are completely different and not to be compared with pixal pipelines).
Now on my history of computers and graphic cars go back to 1995.
Matrox (pci)
voodoo 1 addon card (pci)
ATI (pci)
Canopus Voodoo2 addon card (pci)
Nvidia (1st gen) card (pci)
ATI Radeon 64DDR card (agp)
3DFX 5500 card (agp)
Nvidia 4600ti card and up to
7800gs> (which was used with a Intel 3.4ghz P4 cpu) (agp)
Nvidia 7950 gx2 Quad SLi (PCIe)
So when ATI/AMD does come out with a better card then Nvidia. I might go and buy one. The ATI 2900 xt was a start in the right direction, but came out with to young of drivers, huge power demand and runs very hot.
Have a Good Day now!!!