whyd u pay that much??
In the US ebay, there is no suction higher than 135 USdollars for the xt
or is there almost no differance between the 2 curencies??
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first of all, let me say that you should try and not get the Aopen or PNY versions, as other ones have had a little faster things that these, specially the BFG , XFX, and MSI ones ( friend has the MSI one, it rocks )
secondly, get a cooler for it, you can get it quieter and faster with a NV3 silencer
ok?, heres a nice review that shows the power of the FX5900xt card
here
please note, that all this good performance is coming from a 120$ card , not a 450$ behemoth
this is aimed for the average user, so no, performance wont be anywhere near the x800 or 6800ultra, but thats cause its so much cheaper, over 200$$
also, all benchmarks are done on highest settings unless mentioned
there are some settings that you can turn off to speed up games
for example, I never play with decals ( bullet marks on surfaces )
It eats up a shitload of GPU and CPU and lowers framrate a lot, and they look crapy
plus, you usually dont even notice them there or not there
basicly, at 1024x768 ( typical gaming resolution for typcal gamers with midrange cards ) all games out are playable on high but some things might need turned off
but youll get that on any not top-of-the-line card
heres a demo showing a lot of cards playing Doom3 on random settings
Add about 3-5 frames to each score to compensate for driver updates and game updates, but take off acordingly based on your rig vs their rig
here
Lok at ths page specificly to see why anything lower than the 5900 series is just not worth it ( has the Fx5500 in this page )
I have so much more proof that the 5900xt is the best, cheap card on the market
cheap = 150 or less ( usually they go 130-140 on ebay.com )
and it has Pixel shader 2 so its still up to par with all of todays game, and tomorows games for a while while you save for a 6800gt
PS. the 5900 xt is about 180 off of newegg.com, If you buy there, get the MSI one, its sweet
~Octavious