Who makes the best ATI Cards? Looking for an X1900 XTX!

[orion23]

Hi, for a while now I've been using Nvidia cards, BFG to be exact.
I just sold my 7800GTX 512MB to replace it with the new X1900 XTX. The only problem is that I really don't know which brand to buy.
Right now, only BBA and Sapphire cards are available.
Should I order 1 of those, or should I wait for the official lauch and buy a specific vendor?
Who is consider the top ATI based card maker?

TIA!

 

[Cooler]

Sapphire makes all the built by ati cards so you can trust them.

 

[Corporate Thug]

prolly sapphire cuz they have a better warrenty than the BB ATI

 

[xMax]

I dont think sapphire makes all the built by ati cards. ATI hires them to built some or many of their cards, but not all. The reason has to do with lack of resources on ATIs part. But i would definitely say go with Sapphire.

 

[Unkno]

BBA, Sapphire, HIS...

 

[jc9970]

Another vote for Sapphire.

 

[the Chase]

How much $ did you get for the GTX512??(Sorry rude question I know..) E-bay?

 

[Steelski]

Asus has a 3 year warranty. dont know about Sapphires. but they are usually very good.
I want Tyan back as a manufacturer. :[

 

[tuteja1986]

arr :
ASUS good but always tend to be most expensive
shapphire/ATI good brand cheap/All round performance
HIS my overall fav brand out of them all , they always seem to have best performance :!

 

[AzNPinkTuv]

Sapph, the old powercolors were deace... ati itself... and Asus if you wanna sh ell out the extra cus they produce quality stuff

 

[Ackmed]

In stock for $659; http://www.allstarshop.com/shop/product...9&sid=KFR4PAW3NWK89LQL5696WGW6MDKB92C1

Several stores are already selling the new X1900 cards, Im pretty suprised. Should be easy to nab one come Wed, especially with people already having them for a few days now.

 

[Aries64]

Originally posted by: orion23
Hi, for a while now I've been using Nvidia cards, BFG to be exact.
I just sold my 7800GTX 512MB to replace it with the new X1900 XTX. The only problem is that I really don't know which brand to buy.
Right now, only BBA and Sapphire cards are available.
Should I order 1 of those, or should I wait for the official lauch and buy a specific vendor?
Who is consider the top ATI based card maker?

TIA!

I ordered a VisionTek X1900XTX only because of the lifetime warranty. Although I usually upgrade my videocard every 2 years, passing the card down to my other PCs' I like the lifetime warranty. ATI just pisses me off with their 1 year warranty - thats BS!!! When you are spending $400.00 or more you should at least get two years.

The XTX is currently the only X1900-Series card available for sale from VisionTek, or else I would have opted for the X1900XT. While I went for the my HIS X800 XT PE over the non-PE card last time around, I really can't justify spending the extra $100.00 for 3-7% better performance (at best!). Lousy price/performance ratio for sure.

Link to VisionTek X1900XTX bundle with FREE (for first 100 orders only) "got xtasy?" tee-shirt and 128MB USB 2.0 Drive:

http://www.visiontek.com/

 

[gtd2000]

Originally posted by: Cooler
Sapphire makes all the built by ati cards so you can trust them.

I bought two bad Sapphire cards in a row.....not top of my list for sure

 

[KeepItRed]

Originally posted by: Cooler
Sapphire makes all the built by ati cards so you can trust them.

 

[BroadbandGamer]

Yeah, stay away from BBA cards. I didn't know the warranty was only 1 year. Had I known, I would have picked up a different brand like Visiontek. It's a good thing I'll probably be going back to NVIDIA before the warranty runs out.