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AMD Athlon 64 and gaming

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If you're looking for the best of the best and can afford to spend 200 dollars on a video card I'd look at the 7800gs by nVidia. This card is probably a little bit overkill unless you're really into your gaming. You'll also need a beefy power supply for this card. Atleast 400w but preferably 500 to be safe.

For about 130 dollars (110 after rebate) you can get a very worthy 6800xt that will pretty much keep you going until you do a complete overhaul of your system. It features GDDR3 ram along with 256 bit memory interface. It also happens to be the card that I just bought for my agp system that I don't want to get rid of just yet. :)

I don't keep up very much with ati cards because I guess you could call me an nvidia fan boy. I just think they put out better cards while also maintaining very solid drivers. But I have heard some very good things about the ati x800/850 series cards. Especially the platinum editions of those cards. From what I can tell they're a little harder to find now. But if you do happen to get your hands on one they seem to perform very well.

Let us know if you need anymore help. Good luck.
Oh and _ichigan still sucks. :osu4::groove:
 
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Popper252;693864; said:
If you're looking for the best of the best and can afford to spend 200 dollars on a video card I'd look at the 7800gs by nVidia.
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The GS is a great card however I wouldn't recomend it for the same reason that bucknut11 mentioned regarding the 8series...the price/performance ratio just isn't great enough to justify it right now...and that is coming from someone who has a 7800GS on my media server.

The next step down 7600GS is a much better deal for the performance it delivers, and if you can find one cheap enough I'd still go with the X850 Pro. It's a stupid fast card given it's age and is a massive leap in performance over the 9600 Buck94 currently has. FWIW I would recomend the X850 over ATI's newer cards that are similarly priced, the X1600 etc...it really was a tour de force card in it's day.
 
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I guess worse performance would change depending on what you're doing with it. Yes I have been using all AMD's lately, and have had zero issues, excellent performance, and great pricing. Dont have anything against Intel, just sayin what I prefer, tis all :biggrin:
 
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