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I think XFX or eVGA are nice.

XFX has a double lifetime warranty, so if you sell it. You can offer the buyer a warranty.

eVGA has the step up program. So when you want to upgrade, you only need to pay the difference.
 
I think eVGA's Step Up plan is only available for use 90 days after you purchase the first card.
 
StrangleHold said:
Who was talking about ATI
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Impr3ssiv3 was looking at eVGA models depending on the core clock speed on another thread earlier. That's where the reference to the ATI show a higher speed then the 450-580mhz 7900 GT models being looked at there. Lately after everyone rushed into the 7900 series cards I've been hearing complaints surfacing on them.
 
XFX and Sapphire alike seem to always get some good word about them. It will also depend on what you need out of a card when selecting a make and model.
 
i had BFG, XFX and eVGA cards so far, and absolutely nothing to complain about them.
there arent really bad brands or so between the card, but with each generation there is 1 brand beeing slightly faster than an other one. but thats mainly because they clock it higher, and put up a differnt cooler, and all that kind of stuff.

my point, it doesnt really matter that much ;)
 
On the current board here at this time a new PCI-E type Radeon model card was obviously needed. The old board that ran into some other problems ran both NVidia and ATI cards alike except in some cases where the ATI Catalyst got in the way. After the first hard drive was not being detected properly the wipe and reinstall saw the Cat 6.5 run without problems on the older games run. So far the Steam engine hasn't been reinstalled yet for Half Life 2 and Metal of Honor while seeing how things go with the new board and cpu. On the olld board with either chip game settings were always set for high image quality. I can easily drop an NVidia or another ATI card on the new board and see the same results. Most games take into consideration older hardwares. If the game designers didn't they wouldn't be able to sell many.
 
Why should you? On an older board that recently went three cards were tried out for performance and compatibility reasons. The first two were NVidia with the last an ATI card. All three(ATI card was 256mb - others 128mb) ran the same programs equally for the most part. The problem seen with the ATI model at some point was the Catalyst Control Center. But that was on the older versions of the Catalyst where a control panel alternative was available. So far the 6.6 version has seen no problems. When the Steam:Source engine goes on for Half Life 2 and Metal of Honor that will test that. Now to see if the 16x on the PCI-E card on the new board makes a difference from the AGP 8x/4x on the old board. The image quality is always set to the highest setting.
 
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