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Forget Expensive Video Cards

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oversimplifications-are-funny dept.

Anonymous Reader writes "Apparently, the $200 in video cards does not produce the difference. While $500 video cards steal the spotlight on review sites and offer the best performance possible for a single gpu, most enthusiasts find the $300 range to be a good balance between price and performance. Today TechArray took a look at the ATI x1900xtx and Nvidia 7900gtx along with the ATI x1800xt and Nvidia 7900gt."

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  1. Re:Not directly related to TFA by nstlgc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Personally, I'd rather not give up technological advantage because of some crappy hippie OS. Oops, did I say that on Slashdot?

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    I'm Rocco. I'm the +5 Funny man.
  2. Re:Well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What the fuck, are you dense? He's saying that modern, high resolution, pixel pushing, graphics crunching games would swamp the bandwidth available via AGP--all of which is confirmed by benchmarks. You could stick one of the latest generation GPUs on an AGP bus, but it wouldn't be much faster at playing games than an nVidia 6600GT.

    16x PCIe doubles that of 8x AGP bandwidth, and symmetrically, to boot. It is BETTER.