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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #20 on: October 04, 2007, 08:04:16 AM »
If they even get it, you'll have to snap up one "militant militant" since they are available in "very limited quantities" Since its the same card as the 2900xt, I wonder what's the story on overclockability to get it to meet the performance of its older bretheren.

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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #21 on: October 04, 2007, 08:50:04 AM »
Funny enough I read a review for the 2900Pro LAST NIGHT... apart from the lower clocks it probably uses memory with a lower threshold, meaning they binned the cards cause of poor stability at XT clocks... so there's that chance the cards WON'T OC well... that aside its on NEWEGG, grab em quick, I am SOOO thinking to get this card when I go NYC in a few.

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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #22 on: November 07, 2007, 06:24:58 AM »
Check out the November edition.
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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #23 on: December 05, 2007, 07:55:43 AM »
The December Edition is up.
Of particular interest this time around is the price/availability of the 8800 GT and ATI 38xx cards.
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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #24 on: December 05, 2007, 09:00:47 AM »
What I find interesting is in spite of DAAMITs constant #$%^ ups of late with Phenom, at least ATI seems to be doing well for themselves with i'd say 70% of the cards on Tom's list being ATI based.

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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #25 on: December 05, 2007, 09:13:54 AM »
Interesting read.

The Radeon 3850 is already available on amazon for about US$185, bar it's a 256MB version
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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #26 on: December 05, 2007, 10:19:04 AM »
3870s are hitting a sweet spot price wise, and the 3850 even better.
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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #27 on: December 05, 2007, 10:59:25 AM »
Yeah, price point wise, the 3850's are a winner until we see what the 256MB version of the 8800GT (G92) can do when its released, and also the 3870 is price-performance on par with the 8800GT at 220USD (trick is finding it at that price, even newegg is gouging us @ 250USD it was as high as 280USD... but I think they realize THAT is MESS)

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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #28 on: December 05, 2007, 02:38:55 PM »
the 256 8800gt  won't hit under $200 with the gouging that will happen, so the 3850 is safe, the 3870 is another story but also running 1/2 the memory even with the power means slower high rez fps, and I want to play @ 1680x1050 so a 512m card is a must, so since I found one for $199 a 3870 is mine :D
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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #29 on: December 05, 2007, 02:51:56 PM »
You found a 3870 @ under 200USD???? O_O WHERE WHERE???? SPEAK OR DIE!!!!

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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #30 on: December 05, 2007, 04:57:24 PM »
you forget I have a few pals over there, it was a best buy sale :D
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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #31 on: December 11, 2007, 07:37:58 AM »
Updated to include newer DX10 cards.
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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #32 on: December 11, 2007, 09:41:33 AM »
WTF?! that 8800GT pwn my 640MB GTS hands down in overall FPS! :crybaby2:

i'll have to get one next year for sure! :protest:
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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #33 on: December 11, 2007, 10:16:56 AM »
WTF?! that 8800GT pwn my 640MB GTS hands down in overall FPS! :crybaby2:

i'll have to get one next year for sure! :protest:

Overclock it, you'll see a huge difference. Trust me.

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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #34 on: January 04, 2008, 07:02:23 AM »
January Edition is up.
Highlights include the addition of the ATI 38xx series and the Nvidia G92-based cards.
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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #35 on: January 04, 2008, 07:42:27 AM »
These 8800GT cards are a PAIN to acquire...

If you can get one for US$270, you are indeed lucky... and the article lists them at US$290
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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #36 on: January 04, 2008, 09:29:42 AM »
Anyone notice how many of the picks are DAMNIT cards? coincidence I think not!

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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #37 on: January 04, 2008, 09:53:45 AM »
Yeah an ati part is pretty much the winner in every category with the nvidia part being the next best thing, but the 8800gt is such a runaway success that they could never sideswipe it without running the risk of looking blatently biased.

Then again, ati DOES have a better lineup of midrange to lowend cards hence their sweep of all the categories. Also, winners are determined upon not only performance, but also price vs performance.

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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #38 on: January 04, 2008, 09:56:09 AM »
That Avatar WIN man!!! that aside, I really hope the R700 address the AA performance hit issues the current HD series cards seems to suffer from! I not upgrading too soon, but I figure a mid range HD4xxx would go nice... or a 9800 (funny how Nvidia has reached the SAME number convention as ATI did a while ago... what will be even more ironic is if a Gefore 9800 is the toppa top card basically mimicing its previous namesake the Radeon 9800!)

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Re: Best Gaming Cards for the Money (Tom's Hardware)
« Reply #39 on: January 04, 2008, 10:22:40 AM »
Well I could have sworn I posted this already, but there's already talk about Nvidia 9600gt which incidentally is meant to be a midrange card much like the ati 9600 of yesteryear. So yeah...the numbering similarities done start..

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