Help on vid card selection.

[schwachs]

Hi, I am building a new rig... E6600, 2gb gskill ram, P5B Deluxe Mobo, etc.. I want to get a decent vid card but don't care about DX10 at the moment and don't want to go overboard on a card... that being said, I don't want to cheap out... I am leaning towards a ATI 1900 or an nVidia 7900GT but not sure if there's a defacto better card... also, when looking on NewEgg for the 7900, there are like 50 of them, GTs, GSs, etc. etc... it's a bit daunting.

Any suggestions on a decent card in the $200 range?

 

[phantasm]

The GT's run a little faster than the GS's. If it were me i'd grab a nice 7950GT KO.

Of course not knowing your budget i can't make a solid recomendation.

 

[schwachs]

Any suggestions on a decent card in the $200 range?

that one looks good. that a decent price? any others compare well to it? i'm comfortable going to 250ish range... but don't want to got to 300 and don't care about dx10 any time soon.

 

[68Injunhed]

The 7950GT is a good card. You can get a used one for around the $200 you want to spend.

 

[phantasm]

that one looks good. that a decent price? any others compare well to it? i'm comfortable going to 250ish range... but don't want to got to 300 and don't care about dx10 any time soon.

Sorry, i missed that part.

XFX 7900GT

eVGA 7900GS

 

[kyleslater]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130061 that would be my choice but it's $264 so you might not want it...

 

[schwachs]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130061 that would be my choice but it's $264 so you might not want it...

that's two votes for that card and i'm leaning towards this one now... any one have any reasons I shouldn't get this one - other than it being a little more expensive?

 

[schwachs]

What is Superclocked and is it worth it?

I was about to buy the EVGA card mentioned above and saw this one that's "superclocked"

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130066

is that anything i can just do myself and it is worth the extra coin?

thanks!

 

[meionm]

I think superclocked is overclocked version of regular card, just with preset gpu clocks in bios of the card. If you use software and increase core frequency of regular card to the one that is superclocked then it will give same level of performance.

 

[schwachs]

awesome
thanks!

 

[schwachs]

you know that message was over two months old, right?