which do you prefere?

[GhOsT55]

2 questions here

1.i want to know what card you guys would use

the nvida

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?pfp=BROWSE&N=200105+4294966731+4294964892&Ne=303827&product_code=340769&Pn=GeForce_7600GS_Video_Card


or the ati
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?pfp=BROWSE&N=200105+4294967041+4294967168&Ne=300752&product_code=316268&Pn=Radeon_9250_Video_Card



2. which one would be beter at running sh3?

[Swat]

Definitely 7600GS,has 512MB which helps in texture - size demanding games.Might help in SH3 with all applied texture mods and anyway - Radeon 9250 is old and slow,7600GS has more modern architecture which you'll appreciate not only in SH3.

[Spray]

LOL the 7600 without a doubt I got a 7600GT and was upgrading of a 9600XT there is an extreme visible difference in some games in one I managed to set High all gfx instead of Low all in my 9600XT and the 7600GT still outperformed in FPS 4 fold. Without a doubt the 7600.

[Spray]

Oh and if you can get a 7600GT go for that the 7600GS has 512mb of memory but can't use it all so its useless its more of a show offish kinda thing which doesn't really work. The 7600GT has higher clockspeeds and outperforms it quite visibly. Its also about $20 or so dollars more expensive.

[Venatore]

I haven't got either of these, but its interesting to see what players prefer. :hmm:

[NipplesTheCat]

You do know that PCI and PCI express are different right?

[Brag]

Hi have a Pny 5200, it works ok with GWX. Before GWX I used the onboard card for stock SHIII

[Jimbuna]

The 7600 every time :rock: :arrgh!:

[Kingcobra24]

Just upgraded about 2 weeks ago to ATI's ultimate.

Ati H195cf512-650 Vdo 512mb Pci-e X1950 Crossfire" Graphics Card

[Spray]

Oh and may I suggest you use newegg for any PC parts probably the best site on the net you will definately find a better deal. Also check your mobo to see what cards it takes if its an AGP mobo your best bet around that price would be the 7600GS AGP version hopefully your PCI-E X16 in which case its up to date and takes pretty much all modern cards. And may god be merciful on your soul if its a PCI-E X8

[GhOsT55]

You do know that PCI and PCI express are different right?

i think so i got a socket 775
i also got 2 pci expansion ports and 2 dimm ports

[GhOsT55]

also would any of the 7 series run sh3?

[blue3golf]

I got the 7600, never had a problem with it. Got it relatively cheap too.

[XanderF]

You do know that PCI and PCI express are different right?

i think so i got a socket 775
i also got 2 pci expansion ports and 2 dimm ports

What he is saying is that PCI-Express expansion slots and PCI expansion slots are completely different.

PCI-Express cards will not fit in PCI slots. Totally different things. If you are stuck with 'regular' PCI, the best card ever released for that format was the VisionTek Radeon X1300 PCI (http://www.visiontek.com/products/cards/retail/x1300_256pci.html). If you want the fastest PCI nVidia card, the best option is the 3dFuzion GeForce 6200 PCI (http://www.3dfuzion.com/cards_6200_pci_128.asp). But either way, you pay through the nose for such a 'modern' GPU running through such an ancient interface.

[Dantenoc]

When buying hardware you should consider software first, always!

nVidia has the upper hand over ATI in that regard, since most of today's top games are designed with the nVidia card in mind (remember the advertisement: "The way it's meant to be played")

Now, in regard to SH3, please kind in mind that no matter what card you have, even on a super ninja computer, you'll still get poor performance from time to time... it's just wasn't written robustly enough to avoid those strange hickups when in high performance demand situations, even if you're computer can run it blazingly fast on all other situations (Specialy if you mod it)

[Spray]

also would any of the 7 series run sh3?

Are you joking? The 7950GTX is the best DX9 card out there at the mo and the 7600GT is a High Mid Range card. I sometimes find that researching a topic is good it gives you quite a bit of knowledge. Now when I was building my computer I went through planning for 5 days researching all the parts will they work will they fit are they a good bang for buck. At the card range I was looking at the 7600GT was same pricing as a X1600 even though it totally creamed it in tests. If you ever have any questions on cards just google 7600GT vs X1600 and you'll come up with comparisons none of these tests work if you get an artifact card such as the 9250. EG 9250 vs 7600GT I highly doubt you would get any results I beleive the 9250 was a good card.... 2 or 3 possibly even 4 years ago. 7600GT is highly reccomended and will play all modern games at a fairly high setting and SH3 at all high full AA and still give you some good performance.

[Spray]

When buying hardware you should consider software first, always!

nVidia has the upper hand over ATI in that regard, since most of today's top games are designed with the nVidia card in mind (remember the advertisement: "The way it's meant to be played")

Now, in regard to SH3, please kind in mind that no matter what card you have, even on a super ninja computer, you'll still get poor performance from time to time... it's just wasn't written robustly enough to avoid those strange hickups when in high performance demand situations, even if you're computer can run it blazingly fast on all other situations (Specialy if you mod it)

I never got any problems on my PC running all full with GWX.... HL2 was built with ATI :D sorry I just loved that game far too much. Anyway ATI is merged with AMD now so.... Carry on. Im personally an AMD/ATI guy but my current system is an AMD/Nvidia shoulda got a C2D but like I said I have a strong AMD BIAS. Anyway with my 7600GT its giving me quite a BIAS to the green team. Oh and for the person who started the post I don't know if you read my other one throughly. I had a 9600XT thats 256mb (different from standard 9600) it pretty much beats the 9250. I upgraded that to a 7600GT. Sorry to say but buying a 9250 would be a giant mistake. No seriously a very very large mistake. The numbers dont always mean everything I think a 6800GS can beat a 7300 (both Nvidia) and the 9250 is ATI so you definately cant compare numbers there but you can most of the time eg 7600GT>6800GS>6600GT>X700>9600XT>9250

Trust me the 9250 is way wat down the ladder.

[Gizzmoe]

Whoops, moved to wrong forum. Please move thread to General Topics.

[Gizzmoe]

The biggest disadvantage of the 9250 is that it doesn´t support Pixel Shader 2.0, so SH4 and some other games won´t work at all.

[XanderF]

But - again - it matters if you want a PCI or PCI-E video card.

Completely different things that are in no way related