The Short List: the Best Gaming Videocards for the money - Page 9

Well guys--I just bought one. Question for Cleeve (or whomever wishes to answer): Should I just use it in my parent's PC, or do you think there's a chance it will best the suckey Inno3d card in my sig? Can't find a benchmark comparing the plain 6600 to the x700 pro at the moment...

I'd try it in your rig first; it's faster than your 6600, and it should overclock well with that GDDR3 memory.

I actually just ordered a brand new 7600GT today. I'm jumping from an ATI 9550, so the improvement should be amazing. It's good to see comments like this about a card you bought!

No worries, my last upgrade included changing MBs to the ASRock 939Dual SATA. It has both an AGP and PCI-Express, and it doesn't lost speed on either one. However, I'll probably just see about disabling the AGP slot completely once the new card is confirmed as running well. I've been researching a new card for a while now (month or two) and everywhere says that the 7600GT gives a lot for the money.

The only thing I would change in this list right now is utterly remove the 400-500$ segment in PCI-Express. There is no point recommending the 7900GTX and X1900XTX when a X1900XT at 100$ less will do just as well, if not better (than the 7900GTX). Of course, these cards are the best in their price range; but that price range is not recommendable, as the 200+$ price range is not recommendable in AGP.

Actually, according to HKEPC the 7600GT is going to move into the $130 Retail category. I think it will pretty much pwn anything in that price range when it does.

u have no x1900gt or 7950gx2.. itd be nice to see em up

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They seem to be the same card, the BFG is clocked higher then the others, that's all.

gearoi said:

Have you even have sex yet?

Got my PNY 7600GT. Very happy thus far. My 3DMark05 score went from 1700 to around 5800. Not too shabby! My best comparison was with DDO. I used to run at Medium settings getting 25-30 FPS in most areas. Now, I break 100 FPS in the same areas. Just thought I'd share my happiness. Only complaints relate to cooling, but that is expected. The fan is a bit loud when it gets going in-game, but tolerable and replaceable. And, the card runs hotter than I'm used to.

In theory, it should; however, n00bs are too n00bish to search; they just start a new thread.

Raath, Is that an AGP 7600GT? I havent seen them available in the U.S.

That would be because they don't--at least not officially.

That would be because they don't--at least not officially.
Well they do exist. At least Leadtek is advertising them, which is official enough for me. Check this link, second from the bottom.
http://www.leadtek.com/graphic.html

man that guy made a nice work out of the lengthy reviews of soo many cards available. Funny thing is that I was about to post asking which card I should buy; because I still have AGP and am looking to upgrade my card for the ATI AIW 9600 Pro that i currently have and am unable to run the games .

So which one of the 7600GS cards are worth purchasing. I know the circuit city only sells the eVGA e_GeForce. I have a 100$ card from CC; so figured paying 60$ more and getting that card might be worth it. But, what do you guys think might be better? is that my only choice for AGP; because GigaByte and BFG and ASUS seems to be making the cards for PCI-E and not AGP .

Lots of stuff has changed recently, some wide-sweeping changes to the list on the way.

Actually, the list is still pretty good. The X1800 XT is better than the X1900 GT, and is about the same price. The X1800 GTO has to be removed though... to expensive now compared to the X1800 XT.

I might have to modify it when the new Ati cards become available... X1950XTX, X1300 XT, X1650 PRO...

New list is posted, anyway

*** AUGUST 28 CHANGES ***

- X1800 GTO removed (price increased too high)
- Minor price tweaks
- X800 GTO added to sub-$150 AGP picks
- 7900 GTX removed (too expensive compared to X1900 XTX)

pretty sure that it was mentioned many times here that the list was only for NIB retail stuff. Open box, used and refurb just makes it too hard to stay on top of. (as if the changes in the new stuff was not already hard enough. lol)

You're right sojorner, but on the other hand if people want to post current deals in this thread, more power to 'em. If anyone has the time to share a deal, that's not a bad thing... as long as they don't expect me to change the list.

cool man, that was what I was getting at. It's all good.

I've done a quick analysis based on the new charts. It can be found here.

Note that this analysis excludes a number of cards that were too weak to appear in the charts. It also excludes SLI/Crossfire combos - because honestly, I don't see the value in them (2x the price never equals 2x the performance). Finally, it looks at 10 tests (2 toughest settings of each test).

Price is based on Newegg, Pricewatch prices.
Numbers come from TH benchmark charts.
I converted 3DMark scores into FPS by dividing by 30 & rounding; doing this gives a deeper average FPS.

Results for the lazy:
800 GTO is tops when sorted on $ per Frame ($4.84)
However the Radeon X1800 XT R520 does double duty by having a low $ per Frame ($5.02) and a high average frame score across all tests (36.9).

Return of the $95 X850XT. Yet another great deal.

At $100 w/shipping this wins the Dollars per Frame race ($4.20) with an average score of 23.8 across all tests.

Going over the prices again...

I don't see the 7300GT on the charts. Where are the benchmarks?

dude, he said 50% as speculation, and basicaly guaranteed means that it is like almost guaranteed, in other words the manufacturer did not actually guarantee it to be flashable, what he meant was that the success rates of such modifications is so high that it is practically guaranteed.