The Best Gaming Graphics Cards For The Money: October 2007

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/1 [...] index.html

Detailed graphics card specifications and reviews are great - that is, if you have the time to do the research. But at the end of the day, what a gamer needs is the best graphics card within a certain budget.

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Any chance the intel integrated chipsets are going onto the summary chart at the last page? (somewhere at the bottom)

My new office is in on the way, and I'd kind of like to know how bad the gma 3100 is if I were to suddenly pop a game onto it (hp dc7800 with Q35 chipset)

When I was looking for AGOP cards I didn't find any 2600 XT's for sale yet, only 2600 PROs.

Depending on the price when they're available, I might recommend the AGP 2600 XT.

There are alot of benches out there, just Google them.

The short answer is that it outperforms the GTS 320 - especially at high resolutions. I wouldn't say it outperforms the GTX, although in a specific bench or two it might beat it.

Im confused - 2600 or 2900?

I've only seen on NCIX (canada), the 2900PRO is way below (30$~) the 8800GTS 320MB, which is a steal!

Well, specwise they're identical in alot of ways: same numbers of unified shaders, 512-bit memory interface and 512mb of RAM.

Even though the clock speed is lower, testing shows them to be faster than the 8800 GTS 320MB which is on the same tier... so I think they're well placed where they are.

Anyone think the prices are going to fluctuate on these? I am thinking about buying the one on the egg for $270 shipped. Seems like a good deal and I can crossfire them later.

I agree. Seems sensible from a business stand point. Well, I think I am going to order one today.

An X1950 PRO will beat a gainward bliss 7800, and costs less from what I've seen.

The X1950 XT will beat the snot out of them both.

No... once again, the X1950 XT is the best AGP card available. It's not even much of a contest.

It easily beats the 7950 GT.




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Benches are hard to find for this card, but I did find a 3dMark 05 bench:

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php? [...] tcount=137

3dMark 05 results:
AGP 7950 GT: 8396
AGP X1950 XT: 9617

Now, 3dMark isn't an ideal bench but we can see the cards have a similar spread as they do on the PCIe bus. Look for any PCIe bus review of the 7950 GT vs. the X1950 XT, and you'll see the X1950 walking away with higher resolutions and eye candy...

I stand corrected, I was one of those unaware of it

Seems like a waste of effort to me. The 2900 pro is probably only marginally faster, and the time to install + ebay off your current card really isn't worth the effort. I'd be happy with what you've got until something significantly better is released, and only if you need it to play a game. The 512mb only matters if you're running really high resolutions, like over 1280x1024.

[Looking for a steal]

Any of you guys selling off your GTS's for the 2900 pro? Maybe for say... 150?

[/Looking for a steal]

Right then, down to business

hmm... I think you may have found a typo there, Get your act together Cleeve (j/k I make more typos than that in my average post)

It's a typo. Should be DirectX 9.b and SM 3.0 support

Thanks for pointing it out... now you can relax a bit.

Why is the X1900GT not listed in your "Best Value" for XXX?

It sells for under $100 but on your chart you list it higher than your
"Best Value for $120".

I'm sure I'm Missing something...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102705

Plus the price has fluctuated in the last 2 weeks almost every other day.
started at $99.00
after everyone started buying it $109.00
2 days later when no one bought it back to $99.00
then it went to $94.99
then to $89.99
down to $84.99 (for like 6 hours)
today $89.99

give him a break

Apparently not enough of them...