"Vassil Stoyanov" <vasko@bastun.net> wrote in message
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> "Marshall" <Marshall@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> > "Vassil Stoyanov" <vasko@bastun.net> wrote in message
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> > > Stragiht to the point - how much $$ should i get ready for a new
> > > graphics card and what should be my choice?
> >
> > We won't know until next spring sometime, by the sounds of the
> > current rumors leaking out of id. By then, we'll have at least one
> > new and improved round of video chips/cards coming out of the
> > top vendors, and until we know what the pricing and performance
> > is on those new products, we couldn't say. Currently, if you're going
> > to buy a card today, in anticipation of Doom3 coming out sometime
> > next year, I'd definitely go with either the high-end Radeon or the
> > GeForce FX 5900, and get a card with 256MB of video RAM on it.
> > I've heard that Half-Life 2 and Doom3 will actually be making use
> > of all that RAM, once they come out. You'll be looking at anywhere
> > from $350-$450+, depending on how good a shopper you are and
> > what part of the world you live in.
> > -Marshall
>
>
> Thats quite alot, considering the fact that I live in
> Bulgaria...Nevermind...So right now I'm kinda guessing that it'll be
> best to wait for the games to actually come out and THEN buy a new
> card. Sounds fair enough, 'specially when there really are gonna be
> some new chipsets coming out till then...
Yeah, the darn things are expensive. Start wishing for a good old fashioned
price-war between ATI and nVidia... <grin>. The cards that are top-end now,
will be quite a bit cheaper by next spring- so that should help some, if you
wait. Also, Doom3 will be quite playable on video cards that are less than
top-end... you just won't get all of the fancy stuff at the higher
resolutions.
The old price-performance trade-off.
-Marshall
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