The 7800 can be had for ~$275, the 1900XT is still around $440 and the 7900 is a week from release.  \n\nIs it worth waiting for either the 1900XT or 7900 to go down in price?
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Go with the GeForce 7800.  I never buy the latest greatest product as it's usually too expensive.
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7900 GTX is faster then the x1900 by 1.6 gb/s in processing power. Not a whole lot really. \n\nThe x800 xtPE is only faster then the GeForce 7800 GT, the rest of the 7800s are faster.
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Very Good!! Asus socket 939 Mobo; AMD Dual core 4400+ processor; Zalman CPU Fan; 2GB Kingston ValueRAM; EVGA 256MB or 512MB AGP or PCI Card; Two-74GB Western Digital Raptor (10,000 RPM) SATA Hard Drives; a 600 Watt Power Source with fan controls; one 250GB Western Digital SATAII Hard Drive (with the 16MB Cashe) for backups; one 16x Plextor DVD-RW; one Lite-On DVD/CD Combo Drive; one Floppy Drive with Card Reader; Plenty of case fans to keep your cool. 19" monitor, keyboard, optical mouse, 5:1 amplifyed speakers. Joysticks and other interfaces. That'll probably shoot down that $2500 real fast! Try buying at Newegg.com or at Tiger Direct. That might save you some $$!
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The 6200 is slightly better, but you are not going to get good graphics with either one playing newer games.  Try to get at the very least something in the 6800 range, or preferibly the 7600 range.
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I think the 1505 would be good enough, because I can't classify the 1705 as "cheap".\n\nAlso, you should buy from the Business section of Dell's website because the 1505 is cheaper there, known as the 6400.\n\nIf you really want the 1705, you should still go to the Business section and choose its equivalent, the 9400.\n\nIf you're buying from the Home section of Dell.com, join Freeride.com first so you can earn points when you buy.
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Yes, DirectX 10 will be coming out late this year and will be included with Vista.  Whether or not you want to wait depends on if you NEED to play BF2 now.  If you do then I would get a simple Geforce 6600GT (about $125) and it should be able to handle BF2 just fine.  Then when DirectX 10 comes out you'll be able to get a card that supports it.  I don't know how expensive they would be that depends if they endow the middle-end cards and high-end cards with DX10, if they stick with the high-end cards then I would say upwards of $300.  I would wait but that's just me, I already have a Radeon X800XL so I don't really need a card right now but as soon as DX10 comes out, I'm getting one that supports it because who wouldn't want geometry sharders, who?
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i agree with addicted. fx-64 is the way to go for a gamer. and if you have the cash go for it. most are not that lucky.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116355\n\n19", 270 on rebate, 5 ms, no ghosting in games, 1104 reviews and still has a 5.\n\nJust get it...
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The xt aren't cheap. Thats why i just went with the 9600 pro. Keep an eye out on ebay and best buy and you can get a good deal on the xt. On black friday i picked up a x700 pro for 100 bucks. So just keep an eye out on sales and what not.
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tisbod's right, a 7600gt, the best in terms of price/performance can be found for $150. and it runs so much faster than the 7300.\n\nif you're going to go for something under $100, you might as well get a geforce 6800 xt, which can be found for $80 on newegg.com
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i repeat only what i answered you in your previous question - i simply didn't know what the HP laptop costs. but if these $1199 are no miscalculation then get it.\n\na laptop with a 2GHz AMD 64 Turion, 2GB RAM, 120GB HD and a DL DVD burner with lightscribe for that price is very astonishing.\n\nand what's the catch to it ?
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Hi,\nthe biggest question you have to reslove is "What do I really want to do with my new computer?"\n\nIf you are a heavy gamer and get frustrated because you are a couple of frames per second FPS slower that the max or you have need of a powerful machine to do some 3D graphics procssing (ie: rendering a complex animated scene) or as you mentioned you are heavy into Video processing then you have to do some serious studying ahead to get the best match for price / performance. Study benchmarks that are specific to video processing and then you can make some intelligent decisions.\n\nIf you are a casual gamer and just want some speed and are on a budget then it's easy to throw one together.\n\nFirst oreder of business is PCI Express, it's the new kid on the block and for some reason the video care mfgrs. are only charging about $160 for a PCI Express video card that is about the equivalent of a $500 AGP card.\n\nBeyond that choose either AMD or Intel and go with the 64 bit. AMD has both excellent performance and excelent pricing. Each manufactuer has chips in the $900 to $1000 range (and above if you start looking at XEON and Opteron processor) but for the general usage, you can get a pretty decent AMD 64 bit for around $300 - $400.\n\nAdd a case, a high quality power supply, cooling system (if you get some of the higher powered chips) a decent mother board. Lots to choose from  http://hardwarehell.com/mobo.htm \n\nPersonal experience stay away from PC Chips they're kind of weak in the BIOS can't do much over clocking and they have less settings overall. \n\nGet a board wth a fast FSB front side bus, some decent quality memory (at least a gig) and a SATA hard drive. DVD burner and DVD player. and you are good to go.\n\nThere are sooooo many chips and soooooo many motherboards that it is almost a full time job keeping up.\n\nSome chips within the same manufacturer like AMD are very close in performance and yet are several hundered dollars apart in price.\n\nDual core just means (a new trend in chip technology) that there are two processors on the same die or physical chip. \n\nI have an AMD 3000+ 32 bit with 1 GIG of memory and an ATI x700 graphics card that is respectable in performance.\n\nI can play games and I can render simple stuff and I do a fair share of video creation using a program called MAGIX Movie Edit Pro.
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If you prefer ATI then that would be a good ideea. The fact that it has low rating on amazon it's only because this video processor is 1-2 years old, and will soon dissapear from the market. If you want an opinion I don't say that this modell has nothing to give, on the contrary! I saw what this processor is capable of and it's worth buying it!\nThe alternative for ATI is nVidia, of course. From GeForce 6600 to 7800 (the newest processor compatible with AGP)... Depending on what you want from it. X800 XT compares with 6800 GT, but unfortunately it has lower performaces than it, but nothing that you'll recognize during today's games!
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forget eBay, as you'll likely get the bare-minimum sale price. Have a look through your local trading papers and see what the average price is for similar models, and then judge your selling price accordingly.\n\nKeep in mind you'd want to get in quickly as ppl are already beginning to flood the market as many get ready for Vista
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Check on http://www.pricewatch.com\nI have seen a dual core AMD with 100GB HDD for about $760.00
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well the 805 is dual core and it is better for mutitasking and it should be better in the long run and the 805 has 1mb of l2 cache per core and they both have 533mhz front side buses and 775 socket i would reccomend the 805
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well right off the bat. \n\nXFX sucks in the first place but ill put that aside\n\n5200 128MB and 256MB \n\nsame goes for the 5500\n\nthe 6200 is on the extreme low end of cards. \n\nwhy dont you buy this. \n\nhttp://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1182887&CatId=0\n\nstill the best bang for the buck \n\nit'll be at least 30x's better then the 5200 \n\nand 10X's better then the 6200 \n\nif you plan on playing video games with any of those cards. expect to turn the resolutions down and the effects also. \n\nThe 6600GT's allow higher res's and more "eye candy" \n\nnothing compared to a 7800GS or such. but those are 300$ \n\n\nyou might want to add in a new power supply if you upgrade to a big video card. \n\n400w 18A on the 12v+ rail is the norm.