Ati Radeon 3870 vs the rest

[Sirlaughalot87]

"shameless bump"

 

[mikeford]

9600gt looks like a winner to me, price is lowest, power consumption is lower, and performance is same ballpark as the 3870 or 8800. Now I'm waiting on the best deal on a good brand.

 

[Rusin]

Originally posted by: mikeford
9600gt looks like a winner to me, price is lowest, power consumption is lower, and performance is same ballpark as the 3870 or 8800. Now I'm waiting on the best deal on a good brand.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814261002
very good brand, very version of 9600 GT, very good price ($120)

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: apoppin
Yes, give you Mom and Dad your x1950p and upgrade yourself
- you have been bitten by the "bug" there is no cure except to upgrade your Video Card .. everything else is "torture"

oh and the 3870 does blow the GT out of the water
- on Paper .. it has a tougher time actually pushing pixels

back in november I predicted that the 3870 would slowly catch up to 8800gt with better driver support over the long haul. lo and behold, the 3870 is catching up to 8800gt b/c of better driver support now that 9xxx series is here and nvidia is ignoring 8xxx.

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: Sirlaughalot87
the thing is that if i keep my 1950pro, my parents will be GPU-less and i highly doubt that they will agree on me buying a better card then thier age old Geforce 2 MX 64 mb so either i take my damaged 6800 Ultra; put in my AGP board one more time until the "next" gen comes which for Nvidias sake seems to be at the end of the year

They(my parents) are going to inherhit this old rig:

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3500+
GPU:....X1950pro or 6800 Ultra(a shame that the Ultra is nearly dead, artifacts all over the place if you use 3d)
Memory: Corsair 2x512mb PC3200 DDR1
Harddrive: Hitachi Deskstar 160GB
PSU: Silverstone Zeus 560W ( 38A on +12v)
Floppy and DVD reader they already have.

rv770 is supposed to be out in may. figure something out for 30 days and you'll be good.

 

[Martimus]

Originally posted by: apoppin
bedtime, i guess .. and i believe you want r700 .. i believe "v" would be the value line. i want it to beat GT200 .. but then i am also wanting World Peace [now!]

I thought that RVxxx stood for video, while RDxxx stood for the chipset. I don't think the V has anything to do with value; just to specify what type of part it is to avoid confusion.

 

[lightstar]

we just upgraded X1950XT with an HD 3870 (sapphire's toxic vapor cooled edition) ~$160 AR. . . .didn't think it could get better than X1950 but it is better. we can now see all the way across the battleground in WoW. . . .i decided to upgrade cause the prices for the X1900's on ebay are really good; i can run Folding@Home on the 3870 & the new card is super cheap for what you get (less than what i paid for the X1900 & X1950).