Please help me to make decision.

[shady86]

I'm currently on a Pent D 930 at 4.0Ghz with a 7600GS 500/1000 stock. With my 19" 1440x900 resolution, my card is starting to give low frame rates with new games.I don't want to start a flame war but I've limited budget so I have this 3 cards in my consideration :

1) 1950Pro 256MB
2) 7900GS 256MB
3) 8600GT 256MB

My considerations are good performance, nice image quality and quitness(at least during idle mode). I'm thinking of seriously jumping to ATI because of image quality but I'm not really sure. I don't think it's worth getting a 8800 or 2900 because most probably my CPU will bottleneck the new card. Please give your comments. Thanks.

 

[Crucible1001]

I'd say go with the DX10 card if you plan to use vista and run games at medium settings with dx10. An 8800 320 would be fine too. I don't think the CPU would bottleneck it too much. I run an opteron 180 @ 2.6 with my 8800 640.

 

[Pathy]

Depending on price, I'd go with the 1950Pro. The 8600GT doesn't really have that great a leap of performance, so unless you want it for the video decoding I'd go with one of the other two.