High end graphics availability check: Poll inside

[Ripper294]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
It would seem that you cant justify a video card purchase from 3Dmark05 alone. You have to visit review sites and look at gaming benchmarks and look at the games you play/want to play. The difference between a X1800XT and a 7800GTX512 in 3Dmark05 is not very large. Only 600 to 800 points. The real world gaming benchmarks are where the rubber meets the road as far as I'm concerned. Hope this helps with your confusion.

Keys do you have a link that shows 7800gtx beating x1800xt in the same setup by 600 or 700 points I would very much like to read it.

 

[Ripper294]

Thanks ahead of time.

 

[Ripper294]

Originally posted by: Ripper294
Thanks ahead of time.

Keys I have read anandtech for years and its a great Hardware site. But isn't the forum made up of mostly AMD and Nvidia users? So how can you make a comparision . I like amd nvidia intel ati creative OZC corsair . Whatever is reliable suites my fancy.

The forums here are very helpful in most cases. Motherboard and CPU sections are tops
I do find the video section a little disturbing as anytime there's a question asked that interest me . The threads always get side tracked. By one gentleman in particular.
. As for availabilitity of these 2 cards . I can get the X18ooxt right now and the 7800 gtx 512 I ordered is out of stock.
I started another thread and got a very good reply by 1 gentleman who advised me to wait and see the results . So thats exactly what I will do .