That's true. They're almost the same price on www.Pricewatch.com

I may as well get the 7900GT.

it's not a single chip card so it should be compared to a CrossFire X1900XTX with a X1900 CrossFire Edition setup and believe me it weill get crushed to it's knees lol.

Ati still has the fastest single chip setup and multi chip setup, NV still has lot's of catching up to do, @ least NV cards do quite good in OpenGL games, the point is that most games are D3D lol so then again ATi takes the lead

comparing dual chip cards to single chip ones is like comparing apples with pears lol.

So I'm skipping this one just stick to my Sapphire X1900 XTX and wait for ATi R600 unless nVidia G80 is gonna be hot as well, though I doubt that they will over succeed ATi though heh.

The best thing that ever would happen is that if 3dfx would resurrect that would be purepwnage to me and yeah would be a dream for all of us as well

The 7900GT is a nice bang for the buck indeed so is the X1800XT 256MB if you prefer HDR & FSAA

anyways everyone has thier choice and taste for Graphical vendor @ least we all are true 3dfx fans keep up the spirit!

but still in practical case a 7950GX2 is a multi GPU setup so to compare a X1900XTX CrossFire Setup wouldn't be that wrong  A they both have 2 GPU's and B the 7950GX2 is not 2GPU's on one PCB it's still seen as 2 cards in one PCI-E slot so I don't agree lol.

I still would give ATi the winning lead because it can do HDR & FSAA at once which the 7950 still lacks  hope that the G80 will be alot better like R600 will hehe

oh well can't complain with my Leadtek 6800 AGP 128MB it's SM3.0 and HDR do look nice and it's great for my other gaming rig, it's mainly used for RedAlert2 and FarCry those games run pretty well on it

That GX2 thing is a nice idea but it's still too big I miss the small sizes like the 9700 Pro and GeForce3 cards were.

don't talk about money it's still a multi GPU setup and a Raddy X1900XTX is not so it's still an unfair comparrison if you're looking at the performance you would then have to disable 1 GPU to get a fair Single GPU score

and for multi GPU the X1900XTX crossFire setup still takes the lead.

but anyways neither way Ati still has the lead if it's single v.s. single or multi vs multi. but it may change with G80 or it may not, it depends on how you see the situation

Sorry I see it different hehe

But to be honest that new stuff it's fun to play around with for sure but 3dfx is still the Master in 2D as 3D imho

off-topic
BTW I started to collect again will take some time before I will list though, kinda missed the 3dfx envy

Speed aside folks - it's NOT the most important issue.

The emphasis is changing in the GFX market anyhow from overall speed to a compromise...

Speed vs image quality.

We can all agree that the best image quality is from 3Dfx cards - but they are obviously old in terms of todays hardware and gaming.

As for todays GFX cards - ATI cards will always have better image quality than nVidia.

nVidia have always and will always sacrifice image quality for extra speed.

So for speed, yes - nVidia is the winner here.

For image quality ATI pwns hands down!

That's my two cents...

ATi still has the fastest single chip sollution period.

in multi GPU ATi have overall the best sollution for speed , and since when does money come in to a Ultra High End Sollution??? The most Die Hards I know don't care about money, they just go and get the fastest sollution out there and Ati is still the best way to go in image quallity and speed.

and about Quad Sli it really isn't sufficiant at all  :
BTW it's totally unstable also:

"The continuous crashes, freezes and problems of the currently shipping Nvidia GeForce quad SLI systems may be associated with early revisions of the hardware, but as the hardware is shipping to customers, any issues with stability are totally unacceptable."

LoL nice try NV.
here the source:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/geforce7900-quad-sli_10.html


but what does it all matter everyone has thier own thing, right so why would we mess that up?

In overall conditions ATi has teh best D3D performance and IQ and NV has teh best OpenGL performance and IQ  so we have 3dfx for Glide

the problem with the PPU is that the games must support it, and that is the main thing that usually does not show it's glory with the PPU cards of nowadays

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Heh, I like my $113 X850