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Which Card?

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  • 18-12-2006 10:28pm
    #1
    Mencius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33 ✭


    Getting a new computer soon and wondering which card to get.

    The ATI Radeon X1900 XT 256 MB or the Nvidia 7950 GT 512 MB.

    I will be using the card for games including Counter - Strike Source and COD 2.

    Thank you.


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    #2
    8T8
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    Hmm well I would normally go with the X1900XT between the two but the CoD2 was a badly coded engine with little in the way of optimization work done on it, as they focused their efforts on the Xbox 360 version.

    As a consequence of that CoD 2 is one of the few games that genuinely benefits from 512MB of RAM (the same in the X360) so the 7950GT 512MB it is if you play a lot of CoD 2.

    As for source that runs well on almost everything doesn't really matter what you get.


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    #3
    Jim_No.6
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    Mencius wrote:
    Nvidia 7950 GT 512 MB.

    As an owner of the above, all I can say is that I'm really happy with it - I can't put settings utterly ludicrous as my monitor is rubbish, but so far it's laughed at any games I've thrown its way. (Including Armed Assault, and Quake 4 on Ultra)

    Things look pretty. :D


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