XFX or EVGA?

[ArthurRitus]

Im debating between these two cards, whichever i pick i will be buying two of them

Ive herd xfx had better quality cards than evga, but not sure how trustworthy that info was.

im either getting two XFX GeForce 7600 GS 512MB
or two EVGA GeForce 7900 GS KO 256MB.

I assumed the 512 mb would be best, but the prices kind of throw me off. I dont know to much about graphic cards anymore, and have been pretty much left in the dust. lol

here are the links for the two. please let me know what u guys think,
XFX:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...ails.asp?EdpNo=2739683&CatId=1558#detailspecs

EVGA:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...asp?EdpNo=2458745&CatId=1560#productresources

 

[mkIIIman089]

BFG

Buy from New Egg.

If you plan to do any gaming in the near future, you're going to want a lot more horsepower (and DX10) then those cards offer.

 

[speed]

aren't xfx cards just overclocked gforce cards?

 

[Kai]

XFX are a brand - they sell regular and pre-overclocked cards.

However, while both those GPU's are quite good, i'd seriously look into the 8600GTS instead - or if you're not concerned with going DX10 just yet, the Radeon x1950 Pro.

If you want raw horsepower - well, get a Radeon HD2900XT - sure they're not as fast as the GeForce 8800GTX's, but they're priced cheaper than the 8800GTS's (£279 for one, vs £299 for the GeForce 8800GTS) and they're faster in benchies - and in DX10 they look rather nice

 

[Clueless]

evga! They offer 90 days step-up program

 

[Jervis Mcstabby]

Either get a BFG or PNY. But if I had to chose between EVGA and XFX, I'd take the EVGA, as they usually get better average framerates.

Since DX9.0c last gen you could also do some DX10 futureproofing for whenever vista becomes usable.
These cards all have 512mb. I ordered them by the quality-price:

1.BFG
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3203229&CatId=1826

2.PNY
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3041056&CatId=1826

3.EVGA
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3244223&CatId=1826

4.XFX
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3048552&Sku=P450-8650

 

[Jervis Mcstabby]

XFX are a brand - they sell regular and pre-overclocked cards.

However, while both those GPU's are quite good, i'd seriously look into the 8600GTS instead - or if you're not concerned with going DX10 just yet, the Radeon x1950 Pro.

If you want raw horsepower - well, get a Radeon HD2900XT - sure they're not as fast as the GeForce 8800GTX's, but they're priced cheaper than the 8800GTS's (£279 for one, vs £299 for the GeForce 8800GTS) and they're faster in benchies - and in DX10 they look rather nice

I don't think he's looking to get the top shelf cards anyway.
Besides, ATI needs to catch the hell up on the performance, they were leading in sales (and gamer referrals) less than 5 years ago.

 

[DonS1mpson]

We're not just looking as brand vs brand here, we're looking at more or less completely different cards here.

I'd Go with the EVGA card because it seems to be a fair bit quicker than the 7600GS (I've seen a few benchies and am not too impressed). I've never seen too much of a difference between different branded cards, I usually pick the card that I want and get the cheapest branded one I can find.

Am I right assuming that you want two cards to run in SLi? If so, you may be better off just getting a higher end single card like the 8600GTS or 1950pro like Kai said

 

[Kai]

The Radeon HD2900 wins over the 8800GTS both in terms of price and performance. It's not really what you'd call 'top shelf'.

Also, notice i suggested the Radeon x1950Pro - a verrrry nice card that obliterates the 7900GS and competes against the GeForce 7900GT in some cases...

 

[drunk_medic]

I just bought a X1950PRO with 512MB. It's up for some sort of Newegg award now. Great card, very reasonable price. Only "negative" is that you have to get a special heatsink for the voltage regulator if you ant to run an arctic cooling fan/heatsink on it. Big deal.

Of those two cards, don't just look at the AMOUNT of memory; look at other things. The one with less memory has more pixel pipelines and newer, faster memory [GDDR3 instead of GDDR2]. The core and memory clocks are also faster, and the memory bus is wider [256bit vs 128bit]. One more thing - a newer chipset.
The cheaper one has two things going for it: it costs less and the big heatsink will cut down on noise.

 

[Kai]

Well, i bought the ASUS x1950Pro - thats got a decent heatpipe cooler on it

Cost me £117 about 3 months ago

 

[drunk_medic]

Well, i bought the ASUS x1950Pro - thats got a decent heatpipe cooler on it

Cost me £117 about 3 months ago

The cooler on it is fine - I just wanted to be able to get it even cooler AND more quiet. The more heat I can dissipate, the more my case and room stay cool. This also helps me when it comes time to push the overclock on this thing.

 

[Clueless]

I have the 8800gtx...top of the line when I first got it and still is. Microsoft sucks btw...

 

[BigTree]

EVGA, 8800gtx here as well

 

[mkIIIman089]

BFG 8800GTX here.

 

[ArthurRitus]

Well i changed my mind, and i think im ready to buy some XFX GeForce 8600 GT XXX 256MB.

 

[Doward]

Go with an 8600GT for now - best price/performance that I've seen, with DX10.

 

[mkIIIman089]

Although right now it looks good, I was listening to one of my weekly tech podcasts and they were saying that in real DX10 games (not just patched to DX10) even now anything but they very high end cards (8800GTX or better) suffer pretty badly.

The biggest issue though still seems to be the drivers, and having to take a roughly 30% performance hit from DX9 to DX10.

Like always, wait until the absolute last second you can when buying hardware that will so easily be outdated like graphics cards.

 

[Clueless]

Although right now it looks good, I was listening to one of my weekly tech podcasts and they were saying that in real DX10 games (not just patched to DX10) even now anything but they very high end cards (8800GTX or better) suffer pretty badly.

The biggest issue though still seems to be the drivers, and having to take a roughly 30% performance hit from DX9 to DX10.

Like always, wait until the absolute last second you can when buying hardware that will so easily be outdated like graphics cards.

That and lack of memory and bandwidth on the card

 

[Poodles]

never EVER buy the top of the line card. Just one step down can be HUNDREDS of dollars cheaper and is usually a hair bit slower...but with TONS less heat.

Most of your top of the line cards are simply overclocked, you can buy the cheaper one and usually overclock it to those levels as well (if needed).

There are ZERO native DX10 games out there, so looking for the best performance in DX10 is pointless.

I bought a nice 6800 with a passive cooler and three game bundle for $300 something like 2 years ago, now I can buy and 8800GTS for less than that and it's FAAAAAAAAAAR faster in every regard to my old card...

Buying SOTA is stupid as in 6 months time you're computer loses more value.

Not to mention people overlook setting up their computer for performance...

P.S.
EVGA is the actual maker of nVidia referance boards, so buying EVGA is a good thing. Not to mention they have the 90 day buy up and many of their products have a lifetime warranty...