Bad choice - walking into compusa

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So to start out look at my sig and see my current setup.

So I'm one of those stories... 360/ps3/Wii/50in DLP and I play World of Warcraft. Tonight I purchased NBA 2K7 for the PS3 since my brother is in town and I walked to Compusa to see what they had left.

Bad Choice.

7800GS for 232(over neweggs price still)
and the
x1950xt for 212. Which is 50 bucks cheaper than the AGP 8x one on Newegg

Im saving up week by week to build a new system. Im looking to build later on this year with the debut of "budget" quad cores, and looking into the 8800gtx/R600 realm of things. But the problem is I'm still going to be playing WoW.

The 9800 doesn't play it at max settings but it does the job, but tonight it made me question, if I get one of these cards from CompUSA/Newegg, would it be a wise decision(giving me the performance to last another 6 months out) or would you recommend just to wait, forget about the cards and build my dream system of '07?

Thanks guys,
Michael

PS please no flame wars over the ATi vs. Nvidia which is better. Im going to assume they're pretty close
 
if all you play is wow its not worth it to buy it imo. its really your choice though. if you cant stand not playing at high settings even though you can purchase a 7600gs that will get you much better results. If i would have to choose between those 2 then i would pick the x1950xt it is much faster then the 7800gs.
 
I had a 6800 ultra that ran WoW full settings. The cards you're looking at would definitely do this as well. If that's ALL you play (and you don't think you'll be bitten by the DX10/Crysis/Bioshock bugs) then the cards you're looking at are even overkill for WoW.
 
I'd still say "wait". Wait for the lower-priced 8600's or the R600 variants. That way you'll have that DX10 cushion just in case you decide to give up WoW and try something new.
 
blackacidevil said:
I'd still say "wait". Wait for the lower-priced 8600's or the R600 variants. That way you'll have that DX10 cushion just in case you decide to give up WoW and try something new.
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QFT I am building a dedicated world of warcraft machine.
I am waiting for a LITTLE bit because I would like to get an 8600 series card and a C2d e6320. That paired with a gig of ram will run me under $400. Not too shabby eh.
 
I like the cheap little wow box option.
Where and what are you getting a C2D e 6320 + mobo + ram + 8600 variant for <400 or do you have mobo already?

I could deal with that because anything is performance over a 2.4C + 9800pro

Why everytime I turn my PS3 on it needs to update.
And why does updating a PS3 take at least an hour?
 
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