X1900 or 7900

[Chickenhawk6451]

Hi all, what would you guys suggest for a new video card? Im building a comp in a few months and was wondering what the general thoughts were about which is better, the Nvidia7900 or the ATi X1900?.

[knghtwhosaysni]

Re: X1900 or 7900

as the 7900 isn't out yet, I don't we are able to answer that question yet. Probably best to wait until the major sites (anandtech.com and xbitlabs.com) have reviews out.
Although I am expecting the 7900 to be able to perform better, just because it is coming out later

[Sir. MatDef]

Re: X1900 or 7900

We don't know how good the 7900 will be. If it's as good as people think it will be, get it. But right now the best card on the market is the x1900xt.

[bloodie73]

Re: X1900 or 7900

We don't know how good the 7900 will be. If it's as good as people think it will be, get it. But right now the best card on the market is the x1900xt.

Correction: x1900xtx
But yeah, the x1900 series are the best cards on the market today.

[Sir. MatDef]

Re: X1900 or 7900

Correction: x1900xtx
But yeah, the x1900 series are the best cards on the market today.

No, thats not the best card out. It costs 100 bucks more for +25mhz core/50+mhz mem, which is not worth it and is easily attained by a xt. I stand by my post.

[NoSoup4You]

Re: X1900 or 7900

He is refering to stock speeds MatDef. In which case he is correct. By overclocking you void any waranty on most cards. Unless you have eVGA which allows that and swapping of the stock cooler and is still covered for life :)

[Sir. MatDef]

Re: X1900 or 7900

He is refering to stock speeds MatDef. In which case he is correct. By overclocking you void any waranty on most cards. Unless you have eVGA which allows that and swapping of the stock cooler and is still covered for life :)

For the most part oc'ing doesn't void the warranty unless you do a voltmod or something, and I really don't think that kind of oc would do any damage whatsoever.

[NoSoup4You]

Re: X1900 or 7900

For the most part oc'ing doesn't void the warranty unless you do a voltmod or something, and I really don't think that kind of oc would do any damage whatsoever.

Are you serious? Voltmodding can completely fry a card, and OC'ing voids 99.99% of cards.

[Sir. MatDef]

Re: X1900 or 7900

Are you serious? Voltmodding can completely fry a card, and OC'ing voids 99.99% of cards.

Please reread my post again, I said, "For the most part oc'ing doesn't void the warranty unless you do a voltmod or something". Again, the xtx is not worth the extra price for such a small speed boost.

[[DC]M4guy624]

Re: X1900 or 7900

don't wait for the 7900, get the X1900 its fast enough and it can do AA+HDR and HQAF, you don't want to spend 600 on a GPU and then have UT2K7 comeout and have to choose between AA or HDR.

[Sir. MatDef]

Re: X1900 or 7900

don't wait for the 7900, get the X1900 its fast enough and it can do AA+HDR and HQAF, you don't want to spend 600 on a GPU and then have UT2K7 comeout and have to choose between AA or HDR.

Hell, when UT2K7 comes out I'm getting a dx10 card.

[Annihilator]

Re: X1900 or 7900

Wrong. The best current video card on the market is the 7800GTX 512mb xxx edition. it is faster, better quality and no errors like the 1900xt serries.

A guy tested 7800GTX 256mb and 1900xt 512mb and he saw that 7800GTX is much better in bf2 and other games pluss the graphics are better and aa is better while the 1900xt had many errors and poor video quality.
Also the benchmarks show that the 7800GTX 512mb is the best.

Wait till u see the 7900!!! its gonnna kick ass.

Here are specs of the xfx 7800GTX 512mb XXX edition

Engine Clock 580 MHz
Memory Clock 1.73 GHz
Chipset GeForce 7800 GTX
Memory 512 MB
Bus Type PCI-E
Memory Type DDR3
Memory Bus 256-bit
Output Dual DVI
Highlighted Features HDTV ready , SLI ready
Memory Interface 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth 54.4 GB/sec
Graphics Core 256-bit
Vertices Per Second 1100 Million
Pixels per Clock (peak) 24
RAMDACs 400 MHz
Fill Rate 13.2 Texels/sec.

[[DC]M4guy624]

Re: X1900 or 7900

Wrong. The best current video card on the market is the 7800GTX 512mb xxx edition. it is faster, better quality and no errors like the 1900xt serries.

A guy tested 7800GTX 256mb and 1900xt 512mb and he saw that 7800GTX is much better in bf2 and other games pluss the graphics are better and aa is better while the 1900xt had many errors and poor video quality.
Also the benchmarks show that the 7800GTX 512mb is the best.

Wait till u see the 7900!!! its gonnna kick ass.

Here are specs of the xfx 7800GTX 512mb XXX edition

Engine Clock 580 MHz
Memory Clock 1.73 GHz
Chipset GeForce 7800 GTX
Memory 512 MB
Bus Type PCI-E
Memory Type DDR3
Memory Bus 256-bit
Output Dual DVI
Highlighted Features HDTV ready , SLI ready
Memory Interface 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth 54.4 GB/sec
Graphics Core 256-bit
Vertices Per Second 1100 Million
Pixels per Clock (peak) 24
RAMDACs 400 MHz
Fill Rate 13.2 Texels/sec.

LMAO my friend switched to a X1900 from a 7800 cuz the image quality sucked on his Nvidia card, also his FPS went up about about 35-40% in alot of games... anyways raw numbers dont matter anymore considering the fact at 1600x1200 4xAA 16xAF the X1900 gets 103 fps while the 7800 gets 86... so i'd really like to know where you get your info... im guessing out of your ass? Also errors and poor image quality... its funny how EVERY review says ATI has better IQ due to HQAF and HDR+AA and ATI's 6xAdaptive AA is much more playable then NV's 8xSS

[Annihilator]

Re: X1900 or 7900

which 7800 did he have? GT or GTX?? also he might have not had the right forceware drivers.
The only way that is gonna finnish this flame that u just started is to wait for the 7900 to get released and we will see if nvidia is better than ATI.

[[DC]M4guy624]

Re: X1900 or 7900

which 7800 did he have? GT or GTX?? also he might have not had the right forceware drivers.
The only way that is gonna finnish this flame that u just started is to wait for the 7900 to get released and we will see if nvidia is better than ATI.

GTX, and with the 7900 they still won't have HDR+AA... YAY lets buy a 1000 dollar GPU so we can not turn every setting on