Mid-range DX10 cards, ATI or Nvidia?

[Mrr.guy]

Hey guys, well ill soon aquire ~200 bucks and looking for a good mid range dx10 card for my end guest comp. Either an amd 4000 or an e6400 deending on what i do here soon.

Aren't the 2600 and the 8600gts competitors? Which one do you think i should shoot for?
Ive already taken into consideration that prices will drop soon and the 8800gts 320 will probably be =/<200.

Considering just waiting for price drops. Thoughts?

[Shell]

At the moment, ATi does not have their mid-range D3D_10 GPUs out, and nVidia's are not worth the money...

The 8800GTS 320Mb is a good option if you're going to be gaming at no more then 1920x1080, and the 8800GTX is still a load of money... and no longer worth the buy since cheaper, and more power cards are coming out pretty soon on both ends.

[BossBorot]

Hey guys, well ill soon aquire ~200 bucks and looking for a good mid range dx10 card for my end guest comp. Either an amd 4000 or an e6400 deending on what i do here soon.

Aren't the 2600 and the 8600gts competitors? Which one do you think i should shoot for?
Ive already taken into consideration that prices will drop soon and the 8800gts 320 will probably be =/<200.

Considering just waiting for price drops. Thoughts?

well you have a lot of options here. As shell correctly said nVidia's midrange is currently not really good for price/performance compaired with dx9 hardware. ATi has yet to release and I see no reason to hold your horses for a mindrange card they plan to release, a card which we have little info on regarding speed, especially with the cost of a 8800gts 320mb from buy.com currently. So basically I would get the 8800gts 320mb linked in the cyber deal section.

Looking at your current rig and your plans to build another computer you could just move the e6400 you already have to this computer and get something new for your main rig. Prices to buyers of cpu's in units of 1000 from intel fell on the 22nd so eventually we should see nice price drops on core2duos on places such as newegg that reflect this drop. I would say upgrade the cpu in your current rig to whatever you think you could afford. Alternatively if you have a fry's near you monitor their combos if you dont want to move your current cpu to this new guest system.

As for price drops on current gpus and the effect of gpus to come no one really knows much of what is going to happen unless they are bound by a nda. nVidia hasnt let info drop on any new products besides the 8800ultra and as for ATi we may know what will be launched but not eactly what it will cost, when it will hit in significant numbers, and how it will perform.

[Mrr.guy]

Thats what i was thinking, moving my current e6400 into some old parts and saving for maybe a q6600 if i can ever afford it.
And doesnt this forum have classifieds? Can see them i guess since im still new.

[BossBorot]

you need a valid isp email, in other words no gmail etc, and at least 101 counted posts to be able to buy and sell in the classifieds

[Mrr.guy]

Yeah im cox.net and i am short of the 101 posts.
Should i be able to see them though?

[CrazyIrish]

Nope. They are completely invisible until 101 posts.

[Mrr.guy]

Alright cool. but back OT
Should ati be releasing some 2800s or something? Really wanting something ati as a change is always nice and the massive supported filtering.
At 1680x1050 in css i really dont notice any difference from 2x/4x to 16x/16x (in vista) but i heard at a higher res you dont need as much filtering/aliasing. Although in games like fear, or again in css the back ridges of the deagle make "wave" movements across them. Definate jaggies no matter what.

[mad_pc_man]

I want to possibly run over 1920x1080,
I'm gonna build in the summer, should I wait until the DX10 ATIs come out or should I buy 2 mid range nVidias 8800s (320) and SLI them? I have always preferred nVidia but am wondering about getting ATIs
Any ideas???

[Burdman27911]

nVidia's SLI Drivers for the 8800 are crap IIRC. Also you should be fine with a 8800gts (640) for 1920x1080 and over. ATI seems to be a better card (than the gts), but then again it only has 512mb of ram. Either way you go, I'd recommend waiting the 3 weeks or so until ATI releases the R600, as the 8800s should drop in price as well around about then.