Should I Buy A Ati Radeon 9800xt?

hey im new to these graphcis cards and im gona buy a ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB 256Bit AGP video card but i dont know if it will play todays demanding games like battle field 2 good and S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Shernobyl so some help please

 

what is your price range?

100-150$
x800GTO
128MB

150-200$
Geforce 6800(unlock pipes)
128MB

200-300$
7800GT or 1800XL(only if you plan to OC)
256MB

300+
dude, it will be obsolete(or cheaper) in a year or two and the 7800GT and the x1800XL hit everything at max right now.
256 or 512mb

please note, more vram does not mean more power, after 128MB the effect isn't that pronounced.

 

Weeeeeell im in New Zealand (NZD) and the prices arre waaaaaay higher than that and im in the $400 range and the 9800XT is $369 and yeah i can get a X800pro for $420

 

I listed that in US$, sorry don't know much of anything else.

just go for the X800GTO and hope you get lucky and can unlock pipelines. it has the potential to outdo a nvidia6800 for significantly less cost.

 

haha well i was actually wanting to know if tha 9800XT would play games like battle field 2 at like medium to high settings?? lol sorry for the inconvinience or how u spell it. :unsure:

 

check this out, it may help you make the choice:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/07/05/vga..._vii/page2.html

 

thats the same gfx card as me, and no dont get it, upgrade to more better one

 

9800XT will do fine for todays games. They dont make 128mb GTO's.
Also in the southern hemisphere we havent got any unlockable gtos. I will see what I can dig up cause in australia that 9800xt will cost $150-180. So I dont know why thats so high.

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Get a Leadtek 6600GT from here - http://www.atech.co.nz/

actually maybe look here 6600gt for $210 - http://www.etccomputers.co.nz/shop/main/cl...p?cid=11&rote=2

 

Get a 600GT At least. For a few bucks for you will get newer technology,.

 

i think you should get the Gforce 6800 258mb, im getting in my new pc

 

Well first at all the imported thing is, do you have an AGP or a PCI-e slot on your motherboard?

 

GeForce 6800 would be good as the price has gone down since the realease of the 7800 but up to you.

 

a few more bucks and u could get a better one cuz thats a little behind but it will handle the most up2ditime games

 

if you do go with a 6600gt, it will run bf2 on med settings at 1024x768 very smoothly, however, after playing with the settings a lot, ive found that you get much better gfx by cranking the resolution as high as you can, then even at low settings, it looks great. After that, just turn individual things up 1 by 1 while still keeping good performance.

 

Well if you must go with ATI then go ahead. But I recommend NVidia. While the X800 does outperform the Nivida 6800...the ATI 9800 doesn't. Many games are also known to glitch with ATI and I myself, having ATI, know this to be true. I hate my ATI and just want to throw it out the window. I love the graphics and everything but I just hate the cooling and the game glitches. (I have an X800). I plan on selling it and getting an Nvidia 7800.