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Nvidea or ATI
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:36 pm
by Stonie
Dont know what to choose,
a system with ATI RADEON X1600 SE PCI-Express
nVidia® GeForce™ GE 7300 SE PCI-Express
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:07 pm
by Ash2Dust
Basically neither are built for gaming and will be a big bottleneck in your system. But in choosing between 2 evils, I'd go with the 1600 SE.
Plus there seems to be game compatibilty issues with the 7300 se.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:13 pm
by Goggles
look into building the entire system yourself rather than buying a prebuilt system with those cards in it
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:15 pm
by madcow
Goggles wrote:look into building the entire system yourself rather than buying a prebuilt system with those cards in it
Yep, it's a lot easier than you might think.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:44 pm
by matsif
yea build your own...I did it and I am 16
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:28 pm
by styphon
Now that AMD own ATI, and with AMD being the best in the cpu's for gaming, you gotta go with the ATI. But make it an 1800XT.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:36 pm
by madcow
styphon wrote:Now that AMD own ATI, and with AMD being the best in the cpu's for gaming, you gotta go with the ATI. But make it an 1800XT.
Not true. Intel CPUs price:performance is better than AMD at the moment. I prefer AMD to Intel but I would still buy an Intel chip.
I also prefer Nvidia to ATI but that's because the ATI Linux drivers are terrible.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:40 pm
by styphon
Its not a case of price on performance, the architectural structure of AMD's means they are better for gaming. They also run cooler.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:50 pm
by madcow
styphon wrote:Its not a case of price on performance, the architectural structure of AMD's means they are better for gaming. They also run cooler.
Well, looking at quite a few benchmarks it seems to me that the current Intel CPUs win at
everything.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:58 pm
by styphon
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:08 pm
by ramboon
ATI
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:14 pm
by madcow
That's Pentium 4's dude (see date of August 2005). The Athlon 64's kicked their butts but the Intel Core 2 Duo processors now kick the Athlon 64's butt.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:49 pm
by Winter_Lion
matsif wrote:yea build your own...I did it and I am 16
Same here and I had an even bigger handicap. I am 48..........with all the shortcomings that come with age, blindness, slow and not has handsome as I once was........lol.
Jeez matsif.........you are at the prime of your ability to learn, hand eye coordination and lack of steady live-in ladyfolk to distract you. You are at the summit and only maturity that brings patience and the ability to get your responsible side to negotiate reasonably well with your gamer side, will make you any more qualified for such things, if you are lucky that is.
Revel in your youth...........You only get one pass.........appreciate your potential.........it is almost limitless at 16.
But still..........good for you for building that pc and not getting mom to buy one while you veg on the coach watching CRIBS on MTV. You are way ahead of your peers in that respect as well.
I am suitably impressed now that I think about what my kids did in their spare time at sixteen........omg.
Winter
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:19 am
by Yob
Get two of these : eVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card
And one of these : Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Kentsfield 2.66GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80562QX6700
Stoney ROCKS!
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:24 am
by styphon
Yob wrote:Get two of these : eVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card
Stoney ROCKS!
1 would do. Just 1 of them will rip through any game around.