Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: Newfie
Those benchmarks don't make me want to buy the 7800gtx. Oh man, Id just love to blow my budget so I can get rid of a perfectly fine X800XL for a 7800gtx that costs like $400 more. Id be happy to play F.E.A.R (if I want to play it at all) on med settings.stating my opinion, and my feeling towards the 7800gtx and F.E.A.R
Your inability to afford a $600 video card is no reason to come into the thread and talk smack about it? Many people can/do afford $600 graphics cards. If the benchmarks carry through to the retail version, the people who don't will be playing at greatly reduced IQ.
Your X800XL may be "perfectly fine" for
you, but you shouldn't generalize to others. Some people like to play Riddick at decent fps, play SC:CT with the options on, in SM3, see HDR in Far Cry, and run BF2 at settings higher than you can handle.
Im not trying to gerenalize anything, im trying to say that according to ME, the 7800gtx dont justify the $900 price tag (canadian). Also, I can afford it, I just have to save up for a few months, buy a cheaper processer, etc. Basically change my entire rig to get one video card, to ME its just not worth it
I'm don't a stickler for this stuff, its not the graphics that allow a game to be fun, its the gameplay. Guys, graphics aren't everything, if bucko wants to blow $1200 for the "Best" graphics, then let him be.
Your argument is erroneous. You only differ from me on the amount you're willing to spend. Someone could say just as easily to you "$250 for a X800XL is NUTS! I play all my games just fine on a $150 6600GT! If you want to blow an extra $100 on a graphics card, go ahead!"
Thing is that the X800XL falls with in my budget. And why get a 6600GT? A ATI 9XXX or Nvidia FX card is great!
Me, ill be happy with a X800XL, wether it be slow or fast, i don't give a rats AS*. None of you guys should be arguing over this. If you can play the game, be happy.
That's nice, some of us want more out of our hobby. The only reason to buy any high end parts is higher settings and more speed. You settle for X800XL speed, I settle for 7800GTX SLI speed. No difference between us.
But in my opinion, the benchmarks from F.E.A.R dont justify the price of the 7800gtx. But thats My opinion
I'm personally looking forward to FEAR very much, it is the kind of game I like to play and looks awesome to me. For others who look forward to it as much as I do, the link to these benches could have been helpful. What if you didn't know about FS, had a X850XT PE, and were waiting for FEAR like it was your after prom hotel room? You get to the game, set it to 12X9 4X8X, watch it stutter and jerk, curse whatever gods you worship.
note the bolded & underlined words, was I pointing it to you? no. Im just saying because the topic of the 7800gtx was brought up, I stated my opinion. Also, im NOT talking about a X850XT PE, where did you get this? Dude, I lived with a Geforce 2 MX (what Im currently usng now) for about 2-3 years. A X800XL is gonna make my eyes hurt (in a good way), thats good enough for me =D)
Now, what if you saw my post, saw those benches, went to EBAY and saw the last fifteen X850XT PEs sold for $412-$550, sold yours for $450, buy a 7800 for $600,and all of the sudden you have 33% better FEAR performance....much better BF2 performance...you own Riddick instead of it owning you....you play SC:CT in SM3 with HDR on, instead of crappy SM1.1.....you can check out Far Cry HDR at 12X10 0X8X....You can play Doom3/engine games much better.....you don't have to worry about other games being SM3 or SM1 only.......
Gee. I see what you mean. Why would anyone want a 7800? :roll:
Considering a 7800GT is almost $1000 canadian, and a X800XL is about $400 canadian, a $500-600 price increase is not very cool. Plus im talking about a X800XL, where did the X850XT PE come in here?
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