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that is a x1950pro in the link, but get it anyways. The 2600xt is not a very powerful card.

as far as i know, after using the 7.8 drivers of AMD, 2600xt is better than 8600gt and a little less than a 8600gts.and its price is nearly the same as of 8600gt. so 2600xt must be the best buy for the category of cards in $115. what do u guys say.

SAP X1950 PRO 512MB PCI-E RETAIL is this a good card updateing from
ati x800gto2 ....getting card 2 run bioshock

Yep, that'd be a decent Bioshock upgrade.

how much would i get for a sapphire ati x800gto2 256mb limited editon

Do an advanced search on ebay to see what the last ones sold for.

Hm i see that for agb the ATI1950pro is the best. I used the tomshardware compare to compare it with my old 6600GT and it got 3 times as fast graphics. BUT i have only a P4 - 3ghz will my P4 be enough for the new graphicscard or will it be a bottleneck and does my system will not get any faster?

In other worths will it be usefull to buy a new card for fatser gaming?

Compared with a 6600GT you will see a fairly big increase in performance. But, yes your cpu will bottleneck it a bit....but im sure it will work great.

The bigger issue here will be your psu. Make sure it has the watts and amps required to run the card. You will something around the 400-450 watt range with about 28 amps on the +12V rail(s).

Hi Guys,

I'm a Counter Strike Source Player.. and my video card start playing up
what is the best video card do you guys recommend for playing this high
graphic games.

How much can you spend?

and whats the rest of your system like?

AGP or PCI-e?

Ok please help i have a visiontek x1600xt ati with 512 ram but looking at some of the charts i tryed to get a better one that wasnt too expensive because ill be buying a new computer around tax time any way so looking at the charts i jut ordered a geforce 7950 gt but it only has 256 ram so it that really going to be much better or should i just return it my system has a pentium D 2.8 and 2gigs of ram and also 375 waat power that was another issue so any ideas wat to do i would appreciate it thx???

I suggest certain individuals call their primary care providers to set up an appointment to remove the huge stick from their ass.

You can't say this, you can't say that. c'mon people, next you'll be grading each others posts for proper grammar and punctuation.

By the way, it might look something like this:

"Nice post over all but I don't care for the wording of these two statements.

You can't realy(spelling-really) know at any givin (spelling- given) instant what percentage of people come here for a givin(spelling-given) reason. Please consider using the word "Many"( unnecessary capitalization) in place of 50%.

There is no guarantee that a bios update is going to make a(n) x800 as good as a(n) x850. If there was a guarantee(,) you could RMA the card if the extra pipes didn't (" )come on(" ) (suggest replacing with initiate). There may be a very good chance that a(n) x800 upgraded to basically be(to be, subject verb agreement) a(n) x850 but there is no guarantee (sentence fragment). Sorry to be nit picky(,) but if you are going for a sticky the post might as well be as perfect as possible( as, as, as: repetitive-consider revising). Please consider using (the phrase)"has a very good chance" in place of "basically guaranteed".

Heheh. I appreciate the support Buzz, but I think you're commenting on a two-year old post.

This thread has been around for a while.

Here are the two killer deals I found on newegg.com

1.) Most likely the best price/perf at $115 presently:

SAPPHIRE 100199L Radeon X1950GT 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102034

Price: $115

2.) If you are willing to risk it with the rather unknown JetWay, then here's a better card for you at $120:

JetWay X19PR-ED-256M Radeon X1950PRO 256MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 CrossFire Supported Video Card - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814153034

Price: $120