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here are a number of cards and their prices
please advise if price justifies performance and elaborate as necessary please:
XFX    Geforce 6200 256MB AGP    $ 60  Cdn
Forsa         FX 5500 256MB AGP    $ 60  Cdn
Forsa         7300 GT 256MB PCI-E  $100 Cdn
ATI Radeon X1900GT256MB PCI-E  $300 Cdn 600 core  
                                                            575 mem
BFG           7600GT  256MB PCI-E  $200 Cdn 0/C
BFG           7900GTX512MB PCI-E  $530 Cdn

are these performers?
ATI Radeon X300SE 256 MB PCI-E
ATI Radeon X550SE 256 MB PCI-E    

thanks for the info

michaelmichael  

The X300 and 550 are entry level cards and no use for gaming. I'm sure that the usual suspects will give their opinions on the others you have listed.

7600gt has a good price to performance ratio.

From the cards you listed only X1900GT, 7600GT, 7900GTX are fast cards. The rest are crap.

If you want the best price to performance ratio go for 7900GS. Only $40 CND more than 7600GT.

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php? ... cture=eVGA
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php? ... acture=XFX

Buy a graphics card you can afford and that also has Decent overclocking capability (I reckon at least 8 pixel pipelines so dont go lower than a 6600) and overclock it.... Generally that works for me.... though I have 4 pipes and not 8.... Cheers, Gunny

I have a 128MB 6600GT, and the extra memory does make a difference in FS. When I set the global texture size to massive, the terminal textures became extremely blurry. I set it back to High and the textures were okay again. On a 256MB card I don't think I would have this problem.

Heres what you should be looking at.

eVGA 7900GS
eVGA 7950GT
Sapphire ATi X1950 series.

The thing about buying an older dated card is that you loose things like Pixel Shader v3, HDR Rendering, GDDR3, and other things. Also remember that the more pixel pipelines you can get on an nVidia card the better. They are 1:1 for Pipeline to shader, where as ATi is 1:3. So a 24 pixel pipeline nVidia core has only 24 pixel shaders, where as a 16 pipeline ATi card has 48.

Cheers
Cameron

Look at X850XTs you can get them around $110USD sometimes. More expensive, 7900GS, more expensive? 7900GT. More expensive 7950GT / X1950GT.

Buy a graphics card you can afford and that also has Decent overclocking capability (I reckon at least 8 pixel pipelines so dont go lower than a 6600) and overclock it.... Generally that works for me.... though I have 4 pipes and not 8.... Cheers, Gunny

Blind leading the blind? Geez Gunny! FSX is gonna want 24 pipes, not 4 or 8.

Depends if you want eye candy or not.... demo runs fine on my 7300 though I wouldnt reckon a SANE person to buy one.... but I see the point, I bought this card until Vista comes out....... cheers, Gunny

demo runs fine on my 7300 though I wouldnt reckon a SANE person to buy one.... but I see the point

Sure it does Gunny, unless it's a sane person watching the demo that is

Would the point be that you didn't listen to the advice you asked for and you went and bought a crap card anyway?

Why not do others a favour and tell the truth about that POS instead of misleading some poor soul?

I don't like when people say "it runs on my computer". I could get 2 or 3 fps and say that it "runs".

I have no doubts that it could run on my computer, what I want to know is how well it will run.

thanks fellows

but honestly the last 4 posts did not contribute to the initial question of mine. infighting and trying to outsmart each other is not helpful to the ordinbary joe like me\

michaelmichael

The other question you have to answer is how much do you want to spend, and do you have an AGP slot or PCI-E. Unfortunately in the world of graphics price realy isn't a benchmark of preformance, as a 7800GS and a X850XTPE will cost about the same, but the 7800GS will beat the pands off the X850.

So whats your interface, and how much you wanna spend?

Cheers
Cameron

what I meant is, I wouldnt reccomend anyone to buy a 7300 unless you absolutly have to, and no I dont get 3FPS in games (Well maybe FPS but I havent tried those yet) Anyways, back on topic, I'd go for a 7600 at the minimum for PCI-E and if you have AGP a 6800 used shouldnt go for that much..... Cheers, Gunny