- Aug 24, 2000
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Let's cut straight to the chase:
1. I'm trying to decide between a $170.00 for a HD2900Pro 512 or 200-220 for a HD3850 512.
2. Where's the sweet spot for midrange gaming at around $200.00?
My story for those who are bored:
Late last year when I built my new machine its primary purpose was recording studio work and media encoding as a digital audio workstation thus I spent my money on more cores, memory, and a nice RAID array with gobs of storage and skimped HARD on the video card because I flat ran out of $$$ for the build.
Here are the current specs:
ABIT IP35 Pro
Intel Q6600 OC'd @ 3.2Ghz
4x1GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 4-4-4-12
2x Segate Barracuda 7200.10 - 250GB SATA3.0 (RAID 0)
1x WD Caviar 7200 - 500GB IDE/133
Corsair VX550 PSU
Antec 900 Case
and
an ATI x1300Pro...(actually given to me for FREE!) "Oh the HUMANITY!!!"
:shocked:
Obviously it's a terrible shame to have all this horsepower going to waste when I'm not working on a 40+ track studio project so I thought I'd upgrade my weak-ass video card to do some moderate gaming on the side. I'm not after top-of-the-line, but I want something that will hold its own in games like Bioshock, HL2, and COD4 for right around the $200.00 price point. That said I was all set to go for the ATI HD3850 512MB which is $202.00 and up anywhere that has one in stock until I ran across the Sapphire HD2900Pro at The Egg for 168.25 w/ Free S/H.
Suggestions?
1. I'm trying to decide between a $170.00 for a HD2900Pro 512 or 200-220 for a HD3850 512.
2. Where's the sweet spot for midrange gaming at around $200.00?
My story for those who are bored:
Late last year when I built my new machine its primary purpose was recording studio work and media encoding as a digital audio workstation thus I spent my money on more cores, memory, and a nice RAID array with gobs of storage and skimped HARD on the video card because I flat ran out of $$$ for the build.
Here are the current specs:
ABIT IP35 Pro
Intel Q6600 OC'd @ 3.2Ghz
4x1GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 4-4-4-12
2x Segate Barracuda 7200.10 - 250GB SATA3.0 (RAID 0)
1x WD Caviar 7200 - 500GB IDE/133
Corsair VX550 PSU
Antec 900 Case
and
an ATI x1300Pro...(actually given to me for FREE!) "Oh the HUMANITY!!!"
Obviously it's a terrible shame to have all this horsepower going to waste when I'm not working on a 40+ track studio project so I thought I'd upgrade my weak-ass video card to do some moderate gaming on the side. I'm not after top-of-the-line, but I want something that will hold its own in games like Bioshock, HL2, and COD4 for right around the $200.00 price point. That said I was all set to go for the ATI HD3850 512MB which is $202.00 and up anywhere that has one in stock until I ran across the Sapphire HD2900Pro at The Egg for 168.25 w/ Free S/H.
Suggestions?