best bang for the buck (GPU)

**gg_wong** · June 12, 2006, 01:56 AM

rite now i have a fx5200 and i think its about timme i upgraded it.... i gots mobo with agp8x and pci-e 16x... and im not quite sure which brand togo with.... ATI or Nvidia (i find boht good). My budget is around 350ish CDN. ur comments and thoughts are very well appreciated

**Timmius** · June 12, 2006, 02:23 AM

Assuming that CDN is canadian dollar, you'll have around €250. If that's correct I'd say go for the Geforce 7900GT. It costs a bit more (ranging from €270 to €320, depending where you buy it) than that, but it is really worth the extra money.
Since you have an AGP and PCI-e motherboard I'm fairly certain that the rest of your hardware is adequate to support the videocard. But it's not a bad idea to postthe rest of your specs just to be sure. Such as processor, ram, motherboard, en especially your Powersupply.

**OTZ** · June 12, 2006, 06:37 AM

7900GT

Under 300, and you get a free Ages of Empires to boot.

Check that site once in a while as it has some pretty good prices during their sales.

Or here's the X1900GT

A little more pricey, but it should be close to your budget.

**Incinerate_IV** · June 12, 2006, 11:37 AM

7900GT is much faster than X1900GT.

**fatsheep** · June 12, 2006, 12:50 PM

I'd go with the 7900 GT as OTZ said. It's power to price ratio is unmatched at the moment.

**gg_wong** · June 12, 2006, 03:17 PM

my specs are amd 64 3400+, 2 gig corsiar DDR, 300gb HDD,450W box.... but i noticed but 12v ratio to amps is 17A whereas site says minimum of 12to 20Amps amps ratio.... does this mean i have to get a new power box?

**Incinerate_IV** · June 12, 2006, 03:36 PM

Is your PSU dual rail or single rail? If its single then 17A is probably not enough.

This one should do nicely:
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...rtron%20Source

**OTZ** · June 12, 2006, 03:43 PM

Yep - that one should be plenty. Buy the 7900GT and that PSU and you'll be bang on for your budget.

**gg_wong** · June 12, 2006, 09:35 PM

whut u mean single rail or dual rail?

**Incinerate_IV** · June 12, 2006, 10:56 PM

When you check the amps of your 12V rails, is there one 12V or two 12V?

**gg_wong** · June 12, 2006, 11:14 PM

theres a positive and a negative (2)

**Incinerate_IV** · June 12, 2006, 11:18 PM

I meant 2 positive 12v rails, sorry about that.

I guess you got a single rail psu. That means you should get the PSU I poster earlier, since your currect PSU probably can't handle a 7900GT.