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but I'm willing to use ATI if the performance benefit is great enough
ameoba said:If you're a heavy Linux user, you're best off going with the nVidia cards - last I checked, ATI cards only get about 75-80% of their Windows performance. Unless you can wait for a special on 6600GTs or 6800s, you've only reallly got 3 nVidia options right now :
GF FX 5700 (watch out for LE cards) - about $140
Maybe someday, but not yet.tranCendenZ said:6600gt
dderidex said:Just FYI, I just bought this card. It's a full-on 5700 (not LE) for $88 shipped.
I'm currently running it at 500 core, 615 mem for 24/7 - which you'll note is faster than the 5700 Ultra's core (although way, way lower on the mem, of course - still, games like Doom3 rely more on the core than memory speed, so I get near 5700 Ultra performance in it).
Which ain't bad for $88. It certainly gives you enough performance to play ANY of 'todays' games, and enough performance to hold out for the next gen 'mid-range' graphics card. (Which I'm thinking will be the 6600GT AGP when it's <$175, or maybe a refresh part of the 6600.)
Met-AL said:LOL...go read Anandtech's article about the DX9 performance of the FX series in Half Life2.
Best card for under 200 right now would be the 6600GT...$189 at the egg.
dderidex said:Try "$245 at the egg". Which means it isn't "under $200".
Most of us don't have PCI-E motherboards yet.
(And besides, HL2 is a terrible example. It was coded specifically to cripple the FX cards in DX9 mode. You know how nVidia put in 'mixed mode' rendering with them? What SHOULD have been the wave of the future - the best of both worlds - FP32 when you needed it, and FP16 or INT12 for speed when you didn't? Well, when you force DX9 mode in HL2, it forces the FX cards to run FP32 all the time! Which is an outrageous example of bias, given that the ATI cards run the DX9 mode in HL2 at FP24 - and, by all accounts, forcing FP16 in HL2 results in no discernable image quality differences at all. Valve just forced FP32 to screw over FX users in DX9. Guess that's what ATI bought with their $6 mil.)