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#1 painguy1
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My friend wants a new comp & he doesnt knwo what card to get. I ended up with these two & made a rig or under 800. Im just wondering which card should i go with for a better gaming experience. Mainly TF2(the unoptomized wonder), and other source games + crysis(not very important)

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#2 Captain__Tripps
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This belongs in the hardware section but 9800gt is better.
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#3 painguy1
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dang it i always make this mistake sry

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#4 chandu83
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Just get a GeForce 260GTX. Excellent card.

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#5 BenTheJamin
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get the new ati card, the Radeon 5850, best bang for your buck. ATI is blowing Nvidia out of the water right now.

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#6 painguy1
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it was for my friend. he didnt want to pay above 800 so i got him a 9800GT. Newegg prices are getting weird.

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#7 BornGamer
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A good rule of thumb when consdering video cards is "Never buy ATI".

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#8 Phoenix534
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A good rule of thumb when consdering video cards is "Never buy ATI".

BornGamer

That's a load of bull crap. There's nothing wrong with getting a nice ATI.

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ATI used to be very good, but after nvidia released the 8800GTX they fell behind. Ever since then i dont buy ATI cards. Not that there bad or anything. They are almost just as good. to me a 1-7fps increase isnt a big deal. nether with a drop as long as I am above 40fps

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ATI used to be very good, but after nvidia released the 8800GTX they fell behind. Ever since then i dont buy ATI cards. Not that there bad or anything. They are almost just as good. to me a 1-7fps increase isnt a big deal. nether with a drop as long as I am above 40fps

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Really? Last I looked nvidia is struggling to keep up with ATI.
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[QUOTE="painguy1"]

ATI used to be very good, but after nvidia released the 8800GTX they fell behind. Ever since then i dont buy ATI cards. Not that there bad or anything. They are almost just as good. to me a 1-7fps increase isnt a big deal. nether with a drop as long as I am above 40fps

SinfulPotato

Really? Last I looked nvidia is struggling to keep up with ATI.

Well idk thats what i saw when the 8800GTX was released. Their sales boosted & mostly because everyone wanted to play Crysis. Soon i started seeing Nvidia having alot more press conferences & then we started seeing "Nvidia the way it was ment to be played" on almost every game. Nvidia started going beyond gaming (getting a little egotistic at this point) & started developing tech for health (CUDA) etc. im not saying ATI sucks. love ATI, but as of now my preference is Nvidia until ATI passes them again.

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#12 SinfulPotato
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[QUOTE="SinfulPotato"][QUOTE="painguy1"]

ATI used to be very good, but after nvidia released the 8800GTX they fell behind. Ever since then i dont buy ATI cards. Not that there bad or anything. They are almost just as good. to me a 1-7fps increase isnt a big deal. nether with a drop as long as I am above 40fps

painguy1

Really? Last I looked nvidia is struggling to keep up with ATI.

Well idk thats what i saw when the 8800GTX was released. Their sales boosted & mostly because everyone wanted to play Crysis. Soon i started seeing Nvidia having alot more press conferences & then we started seeing "Nvidia the way it was ment to be played" on almost every game. Nvidia started going beyond gaming (getting a little egotistic at this point) & started developing tech for health (CUDA) etc. im not saying ATI sucks. love ATI, but as of now my preference is Nvidia until ATI passes them again.

8800GTX is ancient now. Three whole generations ago. Right now ATI just released the 5000s and nvidia has nothing to compete with it, they where taken by surprise and are playing catch up.
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#13 painguy1
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[QUOTE="painguy1"]

[QUOTE="SinfulPotato"] Really? Last I looked nvidia is struggling to keep up with ATI.SinfulPotato

Well idk thats what i saw when the 8800GTX was released. Their sales boosted & mostly because everyone wanted to play Crysis. Soon i started seeing Nvidia having alot more press conferences & then we started seeing "Nvidia the way it was ment to be played" on almost every game. Nvidia started going beyond gaming (getting a little egotistic at this point) & started developing tech for health (CUDA) etc. im not saying ATI sucks. love ATI, but as of now my preference is Nvidia until ATI passes them again.

8800GTX is ancient now. Three whole generations ago. Right now ATI just released the 5000s and nvidia has nothing to compete with it, they where taken by surprise and are playing catch up.

im not just talking about their GPU in general. Their whole company has gotten larger ever since the 8800GTX's release. Of course nvidia is currently behind win the GPU race (300 coming out next year and all), but besides that they have had some serious leaps in their buisness.

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[QUOTE="painguy1"]

[QUOTE="SinfulPotato"] Really? Last I looked nvidia is struggling to keep up with ATI.SinfulPotato

Well idk thats what i saw when the 8800GTX was released. Their sales boosted & mostly because everyone wanted to play Crysis. Soon i started seeing Nvidia having alot more press conferences & then we started seeing "Nvidia the way it was ment to be played" on almost every game. Nvidia started going beyond gaming (getting a little egotistic at this point) & started developing tech for health (CUDA) etc. im not saying ATI sucks. love ATI, but as of now my preference is Nvidia until ATI passes them again.

8800GTX is ancient now. Three whole generations ago. Right now ATI just released the 5000s and nvidia has nothing to compete with it, they where taken by surprise and are playing catch up.

Last time you checked we were in the 80's, seriously stop talking before you show how little you know about your dear ATI.

The top of the line from the 5000 series struggles to keep up with an old Nvidia generation, the GTX295, sure ATI is cheaper, but not more powerful, so next time, do some research before saying OMG NVidia struggles man it must be because ATI already released the new generation of graphics cards. It's even worse when you compare them in SLI, at that time even the GTX260 enters the equation in this Nvidia vs. ATI war.

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[QUOTE="SinfulPotato"][QUOTE="painguy1"]

Well idk thats what i saw when the 8800GTX was released. Their sales boosted & mostly because everyone wanted to play Crysis. Soon i started seeing Nvidia having alot more press conferences & then we started seeing "Nvidia the way it was ment to be played" on almost every game. Nvidia started going beyond gaming (getting a little egotistic at this point) & started developing tech for health (CUDA) etc. im not saying ATI sucks. love ATI, but as of now my preference is Nvidia until ATI passes them again.

DanielDust

8800GTX is ancient now. Three whole generations ago. Right now ATI just released the 5000s and nvidia has nothing to compete with it, they where taken by surprise and are playing catch up.

Last time you checked we were in the 80's, seriously stop talking before you show how little you know about your dear ATI.

The top of the line from the 5000 series struggles to keep up with an old Nvidia generation, the GTX295, sure ATI is cheaper, but not more powerful, so next time, do some research before saying OMG NVidia struggles man it must be because ATI already released the new generation of graphics cards. It's even worse when you compare them in SLI, at that time even the GTX260 enters the equation in this Nvidia vs. ATI war.

Considering price, efficiency, and the fact that the GTX295 is basically SLI on a board and won't scale well at all in some games, I would say that ATI is certainly kicking butt at the moment. Their architecture for their GPU's is simply better right now. Although I do want NVIDIA to get back into the game. I don't want ATI to create a monopoly and jack up the prices for all their cards like NVIDIA did when ATI was in a slump.

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#16 gbrading
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As others have said, this thread belongs in PC Hardware Discussion. Please continue the topic there. Many thanks.