Alright, made up my mind on a card, between these choices

[ashblk]

I'm not going to do much gaming right now and I'm getting something for $75 bucks and under. I've decided against buying a 3850 as for what I need it's extreme overkill. I've narrowed it down to the following...

Geforce 8500GT or x1650

This computer is mostly for video decoding and watching movies, maybe a game like Madden or something else of that caliber but no extreme gaming for the moment.

So which one should I get?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102098

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814122023

Give me your choice for something under $75.00....

 

[aznstriker92]

haha the X1650 will probably kill the 8500GT.

 

[Evilonigiri]

Really now? I think the 8500GT should do better than the 1650pro. Let me find link...

EDIT: http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=735&model2=856&chart=318

Okay maybe not...the 8500GT really sucks. I know Tom's VGA charts are outdated but drivers alone probably won't make up for the huge differences.

 

[nukchebi0]

8500GT<7600GT. Ouch.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...&Subcategory=48&description=&Ntk=&srchInDesc=

Be happy with this.

 

[aznstriker92]

Lol @ evilonigiri. Maybe you confused the 8500GT with the 8600Gt but it just one of those things that nvidia did to trick its customers. A lot of people think that the 8500GT is good almost as good as the 8600GT because its close in number. But look, the X1650 kills it.



To the topic starter.
Buy the X1650. It should play games pretty well too. (except crysis).

 

[ashblk]

which one should I buy?

 

[lakedude]

Maybe this one (or something similar)? 2600pro $66.99 after rebate

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161099

It is so hard to tell because of that ATI driver issue. So many benchies were run with the old drivers and never updated......

 

[lakedude]

Or this one that is a hair over budget:

2600xt @ $79.99 AR

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161099

 

[ashblk]

If Im gonna spend 80 bucks on a x1650 wouldn't it be better to just get the 7600gt? or even the 8600gt for dx10?

 

[Gravemind123]

Well, if you are mostly going to decode video, then an 8600 or HD 2600 would be good choices since they both support hardware video decoding, even the 8500GT does. So from a watching video standpoint the 8500 would kill the X1650, because it would take load off of the CPU with its hardware decoding that the X1650 lacks.

 

[Kamrooz]

don't let DX10 fool you. None of those cards can run dX10 games well enough. They may support DX10. But they don't have enough juice to run them. The previous generation offers better performance in most scenarios.

If you like watching high def video, the low/mid dx10 cards would be a wise choice thanks to hd video decoding.

 

[ashblk]

Basically for the best of both worlds the 8600gt is the one, the 7600 and 1650 can't do encoding or watch movies well. and the 8500 is the best one of the bunch at media playback and encoding.

 

[lakedude]

Yes the nVidia 8600gt or the one of the ATI 2600s, best of both, yep.