What is the best Video Card on market today???

[icecube]

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Bro, save your money. It is better to upgrade the rig not just the video card. AGP is a lot slower than pcie. It will be smart to have a pcie card nowadays than keeping an agp. I believe a lot of new titles will come out that requires a powerful video card. just an opiniion, coz i believe even though you have that 512mb x850PE or whatsoever agp cards, will not beat radeon 1800xt or geforce 7900gt. how much more with geforce 7950 or radeon 1950. Just an opinion, if you really want to. 6600gt will do, besides i don't think you will keep your agp systems a year or two from now. more than 6600gt is not practical. :mrgreen:

[icecube]

Radeon X1950 XTX

[img width=500 height=375]http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/geforce_7950_gx2_preview/images/01.jpg[/img]
[img width=500 height=395]http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q2/geforce-7950-gx2/7950-gx2.jpg[/img]
Geforce 7950 GX2



SLI geforce 7950 GX2

[img width=500 height=256]http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017864_1.gif[/img]
Specification:

Test configuration:
Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe
Intel D975XBX (Bad Axe)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
2 x 1 GB of Corsair XMS2 8500C5
Western Digital Raptor 74 GB
Enermax 535W
Windows XP SP2
Catalyst 6.8
ForceWare 91.45


Anisotropic filtering 8x was automatically activated by the game.
[img width=500 height=375]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/16/IMG0016246.jpg[/img]

Normal (without antialiasing)
[img width=500 height=404]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017798.gif[/img]

Antialiasing 4x
[img width=500 height=404]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017799.gif[/img]



F.E.A.R (16X anisotropic filtering activated via game)
[img width=500 height=375]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/16/IMG0016214.jpg[/img]

Normal
[img width=500 height=404]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017800.gif[/img]

Antialiasing 4x
[img width=500 height=404]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017801.gif[/img]



Far Cry (Anisotropic filtering 8X was activated in the game)
[img width=500 height=375]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/16/IMG0016222.jpg[/img]

- Normal
[img width=500 height=404]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017806.gif[/img]

- Antialiasing 4x
[img width=500 height=404]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017807.gif[/img]

- HDR
[img width=500 height=404]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017808.gif[/img]

- HDR + Antialiasing 4x
[img width=500 height=404]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017809.gif[/img]


The Radeon and GeForce use a similar basic FP16 rendering,
but it isn’t perfectly identical since the image is less “burned” for ATI.

HDR rendering for ATI GPU (left) and Nvidia (right).



Oblivion (Anisotropic filtering 16x is activated via the driver)
[img width=500 height=375]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017187.jpg[/img]

- Normal
[img width=500 height=404]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017821.gif[/img]

- Antialiasing 4x
[img width=500 height=404]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017822.gif[/img]

- HDR
[img width=500 height=404]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017823.gif[/img]

- HDR + Antialiasing 4x
[img width=500 height=404]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017824.gif[/img]



PERFORMANCE INDEX
[img width=500 height=404]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017866.gif[/img]
[img width=500 height=405]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017867.gif[/img]
[img width=500 height=406]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017868.gif[/img]
[img width=500 height=406]http://www.behardware.com/medias/photos_news/00/17/IMG0017869.gif[/img]

[alainphillip]

ATI 9800 pro or 9800XT

[BURN_BaD]

Bro, save your money. It is better to upgrade the rig not just the video card. AGP is a lot slower than pcie. It will be smart to have a pcie card nowadays than keeping an agp. I believe a lot of new titles will come out that requires a powerful video card. just an opiniion, coz i believe even though you have that 512mb x850PE or whatsoever agp cards, will not beat radeon 1800xt or geforce 7900gt. how much more with geforce 7950 or radeon 1950. Just an opinion, if you really want to. 6600gt will do, besides i don't think you will keep your agp systems a year or two from now. more than 6600gt is not practical. :mrgreen:

i dont plan on getting a pci-e system just yet, gusto nako when i do purchase a new one it'll be a beast. sa ako-a sang current system, i'd want this one to go out on a high note. ram and proc is pretty decent man, ive maxed out my ram and my cpu's well over 2.5GHz. i just need a card that can last me a year from now, sell it prolly and then build myself that monster of a rig sometime next year.

im really torn between an XFX geforce 6800 Xtreme and an ATI Radeon x850, both in AGP flavors. feedback?