7900gs or x1950pro?

I

infect0

[H]ard|Gawd
Joined
Oct 15, 2006
Messages
1,677
I am just kind of curious but when you get down to it which card is better for the $150 price? Most sites will say the 1950 because of the ability of having a bit more eye candy but if you are running at 1280x1024 which card really performs better? The 1950 looks great but after hearing stories of issues with the VPU crashing (which happens on my 9600xt and hate it) makes me think that any benefits from the 1950 might not be that great because of the driver issues. Any opinions?
 
They are almost exactly the same.

buy the 7900GS if you are gonna overclock , it can beat the x1950 easly.

but at 1024*768 i think the x1950 perfoms better.

i personally have a 7900GS as you can seee in my sig from EVGA.

and it is awsome , it is all i wxpected and then more.

one word of advise though , make sure what ever you get supports hdcp.
 
7900gs

I bet Simpson7554 will find this thread sooner or later and will tell you to get the same thing.
 
What about the benefits on the 1950 to run adaa and af at the same time?
 
Mr. Stryker said:
7900gs

I bet Simpson5774 will find this thread sooner or later and will tell you to get the same thing.
Click to expand...

damn straight.

A power outage and or power surge killed my x1950pro the other day. My mobo would post, but no video would display. Physically that video card is much more fragile than my 6800GT which im currently back to. Whats sad is, earlier today I had another power outage in the exact same situation, I rebooted my computer, no post, i pressed the reset button, everything worked fine. My 6800GT has survived 4 hot swaps (no pci bracket screw), ESD direclty onto the exposed pcb, being dropped on carpet multiple times, being run on a psu with only 18 amps with the same overclocks in sig. Voltmodding and oc'd to 430/1130, and it still runs perfectly.

The 7900GS runs cooler, uses less power, overclocks better, is prob cheaper. /

I am not anti ATI, its just the x1950pro, its the most unstable piece of hardware ive ever used.
 
7900GS. It'll overclock higher, run faster (after OC), and you can get them for 120 dollars.
 
7900gs overclocks like a mofo to outperform x1950 pro with ease.. plus you can find them used for relatively cheap with lifetime warranties. Check sig for what I run mine at w/ vf900 cooler and volt mod.

Peace,
Josh
 
After doing some looking around I went with the 7950gt 256mb. Its a BFG card with a $40 rebate so made it almost as cheap as a GS so just went with it. Thanks for all the advice guys.
 
Good choice. You won't be disappointed. I picked up my BFG 7900 GS around Christmas because the rebates were so appealing. I put it in a box running Sempron 3400+ w/ 1.2GB installed memory - it run BF2 like a champ between 1024x768 to 1280x1024 depending on the settings. I could run at 1280x1024 w/ 2GB memory install as the 7900 GS is more the up to the task... the 7950 GT will only do better.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top