Nvidia 7800 Gtx V Ati X1800xt

[Ingram]

hey, i know somoene selling 2 nvidia 7800 gtx's and 2 x1800xt (crossfire edition) anyway, i was after new graphics card but i didnt know which one was better to get , he wants 140 for the nvidia ones and 150 for the ati ones, the nvidia ones are brand new and the ati ones are about a year old, can someone shed some light please, by the way i have a asus a8n sli deluxe motherboard, Thanks

[Krisboats]

hey, i know somoene selling 2 nvidia 7800 gtx's and 2 x1800xt (crossfire edition) anyway, i was after new graphics card but i didnt know which one was better to get , he wants 140 for the nvidia ones and 150 for the ati ones, the nvidia ones are brand new and the ati ones are about a year old, can someone shed some light please, by the way i have a asus a8n sli deluxe motherboard, Thanks

Don't you need a crossfire motherboard to run the two ATI cards

Out of single cards the x1800xt is slightly better, but not by a lot... 4-5 fps at the most. The 7800gtx does crawl ahead slightly though if you bump the resolution up to 2048x1536

Edited August 27, 2007 by Krisboats

[Ingram]

yer ill get a crossfire motherboard in the future,

Will the single one be loads better than my current asus extreme ax800xl?

Edited August 27, 2007 by Ingram

[tank_rider]

Either of theose boards in a single config will be quite a lot better than your current card. Another thing to remember is that those are both monster cards in terms of power requirements, the ati's especially, so you'll need something approaching a 700W PSU if you want to run SLi or crossfire, exactly how much will depend on how many other things like hard drives etc you have in there.

What CPU and mem have you got btw? as they are likely to limit the cards your talking about in dual card modes, unless its something pretty damn powerful on the cpu front and at least 2gig of mem.

[poopipe]

I'd take the Nvidia over the ATI any day on account of ATI being wankers who can't write drivers. even if the ATI is better on paper the drivers will still shaft you in real life.

Edited August 27, 2007 by poopipe

[Ingram]

i have a amd 3500 cpu but i will look at chainging it for a bigger intel with different motherboard, and i have another gb of memory on order so ill have 2gb pc3200.

[Greetings]

I'm not sure about this, but i remember reading that SLI is more efficient than crossfire? In other words, if you had cards of identical performance, they would work better in SLI than the ATI equivalent.

[tank_rider]

a 3500 may struggle a bit with those cards. I currently have a 7800gt running in my X2 3800 (2GHz) with 2GB ram system, which is nice and balanced. You'll find that only the most recent games are written for dual core CPUs, however having a dual core helps as the windows tasks are handled by one core leaving the other fully dedicated to the game. That said, if you only run minimal stuff in the background when gaming that single core should hold up ok so long as you don't try to run SLi or crossfire.

[poopipe]

a 3500 may struggle a bit with those cards. I currently have a 7800gt running in my X2 3800 (2GHz) with 2GB ram system, which is nice and balanced. You'll find that only the most recent games are written for dual core CPUs, however having a dual core helps as the windows tasks are handled by one core leaving the other fully dedicated to the game. That said, if you only run minimal stuff in the background when gaming that single core should hold up ok so long as you don't try to run SLi or crossfire.

I'm not quite sure where you're getting the idea that a slower CPU wont work with crossfire. the graphics performance will be dramatically improved by running two cards - regardless of CPU

what it doesn't mean is that you'll be able to run a game that wouldn't normally work very well on that CPU