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What the crap should Particle do?

Buy an ATI X1900XT and keep your PSU.  120W, DX9, PS3, VS3
4 (19%)
No, wait for an ATI R600 based GPU!  64-shader watt guzzler, baby!  250W, DX10
7 (33.3%)
WTF?  Your ATI X800XT PE is already fast!  Keep it for a while.  62W, DX9, PS2, VS2
10 (47.6%)

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Voting closed: October 22, 2006 03:25 pm CDT

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« on: October 8, 2006 03:25 pm CDT »
Hey folks.  It's getting to be that time where I start complaining about my 3D hardware again.  I've got two real choices.

I'm currently using a Radeon X800XT Platinum Edition (R420).  I was wanting to get a DX10 card (G80/R600), but with them each sucking down about 250W by themselves I'd need a bigger PSU just to run the damn things safely.  That would run about 150-200 more dollars.

So.  It's a question of price versus power versus performance.

The R580 based cards (X1900XT) are really fast.  They're even faster than the GeForce 7900GT cards by about 10-15%.  Undoubtedly, R600 will be significantly faster, but will draw twice as much power as the X1900 and four times as much power as my X800.  More power means more money in electricity and more money since I'd need a new PSU.  However, it would give me DirectX 10 capability unlike current generation hardware.  Not sure how important that is going to become in the next year.

I know most of you don't know much about computers, but here's your opportunity to vote regardless!  Pick one.  I'll probably go with however the poll ends up by October 22, 2006.
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« Reply #1 on: October 8, 2006 03:28 pm CDT »
Call me Jewish (or Scottish, whichever), I vote keep your money. Save it for a rainy day..or something like that.
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« Reply #2 on: October 8, 2006 04:59 pm CDT »
Just as a note to future posters, the last option is a wrong answer.  This X800 is too damn slow to play anything anymore.
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« Reply #3 on: October 8, 2006 07:16 pm CDT »
Wait for the DX10 cards.  And don't buy it during the early adoption phase, where you spend $500 on the card.  Sit on your hands for 6 or more months, and you'll have more gas money.
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« Reply #4 on: October 8, 2006 08:17 pm CDT »
To some of us, this poll reads like someone asking, "Should I upgrade to a Lamborghini Murcielago or a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti? Or should I just keep my crappy Mercedes-Benz CL600? Man, what a malarkey-heap."

I voted the last option, of course.
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« Reply #5 on: October 8, 2006 08:52 pm CDT »
Voted for combo #3
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« Reply #6 on: October 9, 2006 02:12 am CDT »
Seems like more people are cheap money savers instead of splurgers :P
Hey Particle, since you're planning on upgrading...how long do you think a GeForce 7800 GT will be able to hold its own before needing to be upgraded?
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« Reply #7 on: October 9, 2006 09:13 am CDT »
Perhaps a few months to half a year.  It's already outdated by other midrange cards such as the 7900GT or X1900XT.
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« Reply #8 on: October 9, 2006 11:54 am CDT »
here's how I understood the three options:

1) blah blah blah
2) blah blah blah blah
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« Reply #9 on: October 9, 2006 10:40 pm CDT »
Wait for the DX10 cards.
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« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2006 12:19 am CDT »
I don't want to spend $150 on a new PSU just so I can use one.
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« Reply #11 on: October 10, 2006 03:19 am CDT »
Oh so NOW you become thrifty :P What exactly are you planning to do with these cards that your current card can't do already?
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« Reply #12 on: October 10, 2006 07:24 am CDT »
option 4) send money I don't need to Slorge Gridlock
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« Reply #13 on: October 10, 2006 07:57 am CDT »
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Ferrari 612 Scaglietti?



Speaking of which! Seen one last night,...wow...

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« Reply #14 on: October 10, 2006 12:52 pm CDT »
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Oh so NOW you become thrifty :P What exactly are you planning to do with these cards that your current card can't do already?


Play games at a decent frame rate.  I get sick of 20fps in BF2 and CS pretty quickly.  Overclocking my CPU by 900MHz helped, but it's still not too great for the options I both need and want.  For instance, I need to run all games at 1600x1200, which can get taxing in the source engine and doom 3 if you like all the eye candy too.  Turning down the visuals isn't an option, so the only option left is to get something faster.
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