Video Card Advice

[Vladmyre]

I was hoping someone could offer some advice on what video card that I should upgrade to. I currently have a ATI Radeon X600 XT 128mb PCI express graphics processor. I was considering the ATI X1900 XTX or the Nvidia Geforce 7900 GTX and was unclear as to which is better. The ATI card has a higher rate of shader operations and fragment pipelines, and the Nvidia card has a higher texture fill rate, and texture units. Which is of more vital importance? I want to be able to play the games I play with "Highest Quality" enabled. Examples of them would be Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Quake 4, Doom 3, FEAR, Half Life 2, Everquest. I will give a list of my computer specifications:

OS - Windows Xp Home
Processor - Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHZ 1mb cache 800mb FSB LGA775
Monitor - BenQ FP731 17'' LCD
Ram - 1024mb DDR PC3200 Low Latency
Hard drive - 80GB 8mb cache serial ATA
Motherboard - Asus P5GD1-VMGL 915G
Video - ATI Radeon X600 XT 128mb pci express
Cdrom - 52/32/52 DVD/CDRW combo drive
Power Supply - Enermax ATX 460 watt

[Mike]

Between the 7900GTX and the X1900XTX, the X1900XTX is faster, especially in Oblivion.

The only reasons to go for a 7900GTX are SLi (which I prefer to CrossFire) and it's a lot quieter and cooler...if you don't care about this stuff though, the X1900XTX is definitely the faster card.

[bLaK]

Go with 7900GTX ..its not faster than X1900XTX but if youre planing on using SLi in the future id reccomend it. You might also want to do a bit of upgrading to your CPU cause wit dat 1 mg cache it wont be dat good......