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Vassil Stoyanov - 01 Sep 2003 13:43 GMT

Stragiht to the point - how much $$ should i get ready for a new
graphics card and what should be my choice?

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Marshall - 01 Sep 2003 18:58 GMT

> Stragiht to the point - how much $$ should i get ready for a new
> graphics card and what should be my choice?

We won't know until next spring sometime, by the sounds of the
current rumors leaking out of id. By then, we'll have at least one
new and improved round of video chips/cards coming out of the
top vendors, and until we know what the pricing and performance
is on those new products, we couldn't say. Currently, if you're going
to buy a card today, in anticipation of Doom3 coming out sometime
next year, I'd definitely go with either the high-end Radeon or the
GeForce FX 5900, and get a card with 256MB of video RAM on it.
I've heard that Half-Life 2 and Doom3 will actually be making use
of all that RAM, once they come out. You'll be looking at anywhere
from $350-$450+, depending on how good a shopper you are and
what part of the world you live in.
-Marshall

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Vassil Stoyanov - 01 Sep 2003 21:27 GMT

> > Stragiht to the point - how much $$ should i get ready for a new
> > graphics card and what should be my choice?
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> what part of the world you live in.
> -Marshall

Thats quite alot, considering the fact that I live in
Bulgaria...Nevermind...So right now I'm kinda guessing that it'll be
best to wait for the games to actually come out and THEN buy a new
card. Sounds fair enough, 'specially when there really are gonna be
some new chipsets coming out till then...

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Marshall - 01 Sep 2003 22:59 GMT

> > > Stragiht to the point - how much $$ should i get ready for a new
> > > graphics card and what should be my choice?
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> card. Sounds fair enough, 'specially when there really are gonna be
> some new chipsets coming out till then...

Yeah, the darn things are expensive. Start wishing for a good old fashioned
price-war between ATI and nVidia... <grin>. The cards that are top-end now,
will be quite a bit cheaper by next spring- so that should help some, if you
wait. Also, Doom3 will be quite playable on video cards that are less than
top-end... you just won't get all of the fancy stuff at the higher
resolutions.
The old price-performance trade-off.
-Marshall

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Christopher - 13 Nov 2003 15:51 GMT

>Stragiht to the point - how much $$ should i get ready for a new
>graphics card and what should be my choice?

GeForce FX Nivda 5900 256 meg $657 when it first came out.

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