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Ben
02-10-2006, 01:11 PM
I'm looking at buying a new card for my second (Wife's) PC.

I've only used Nvidia cards in the past, but thought I might dabble with an ATi card.

I wouldn't mind some input/feedback on either of the following cards.

Sapphire X1600 Pro (http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?sap-x16p5&P=4)
or
Novatech Geforce 7600GS (http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?nov-76gsa&P=1) (I really cant go over the 100 quid mark thats why I picked this one).

The Machine its going into is an Athlon 3200XP (Socket A) with 1GB of RAM.

Cheers

Taxation
02-10-2006, 01:18 PM
Whats it going to be used for, if it isnt anything too graphically stressful, eg.word processing then go for the chaper.
But the 7600 shows very good results in games etc
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/graphics/charts.html
look here and choose your cards that you want to compare

Ben
02-10-2006, 01:21 PM
Its mostly going to used playing EQ2. I'm using 5700LE at the moment and its really awful. I used to have a 6600GT in there 'til the memory went on it. That was ok, so I think either would do the job. Just wondered if the ATI would be any better.

EDIT: Looking at the charts you linked. The 7600GS wins on all the different tests. :P

Should have trusted my instincts :twisted: