Solve : Large cuts in video cards after Vista??

1.	Solve : Large cuts in video cards after Vista??
Answer» According to Download.com, the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB is currently the single best video card AVAILABLE on the market. However, the review also says that after Vista and the release of many new Next-Gen games and technology during that time, even this card will become almost obsolete. So does anyone think that existing decent video cards like the ATI X1900 would undergo massive price drops too? If so, then I'll be able to save myself a pretty penny and still get a card to play some pretty decent games. Im not worried about that. Im sure they will include support for the vid cards out now and the graphics for those are still really good.If Vista ships on time...and that's a big IF yes you will see a drop in pricing. But i don't think it will be as drastic as you might think. Everyone is not gonna go out and buy a new machine just so they can run Vista. I know people still running OS's older than XP. patio. 8-)XP is the new 98.Quote According to Download.com, the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB is currently the single best video card available on the market. However, the review also says that after Vista and the release of many new Next-Gen games and technology during that time, even this card will become almost obsolete. So does anyone think that existing decent video cards like the ATI X1900 would undergo massive price drops too? If so, then I'll be able to save myself a pretty penny and still get a card to play some pretty decent games. That depends what u mean "single" card. The Nvidia 7950 GX2 is the fastest card on a single PCI-E slot. But it actually consists of 2 cards. The X1950XTX is pretty much the same in performance as the X1900XTX, in wich the increase in memory bandwidth does little for the overall performance. So that means that either the 7900 GTX or the X1900XTX are the 2 best "single" cards in the world (there really is no Best, they are both the best in DIFFERENT games), while the X1950XTX is very slightly faster then both of them so its possible to say that its the best "single" card on earth, but thats mostly at higher resolutions. And thats just because it was released 2 days ago. Also, the release of VISTA will trigger the price decrease? That makes no sence, if anything it should increase it. The only thing that can draw a price cut in pretty anything, is if something newer comes to replace it, in this case the DX10 cards. Waiting till march to buy the X1900 is a very stupid idea. The price cut would be only very small, and who knows how much better the X2800 would be over it? Its a completely different structure, and for only abt 100$ more u can get it. You can also sell ur X1900 if u want, when the time comes. Buying a 7900 GTX/X1900XT right now is a pretty good idea, since it seems like it will be a while till the new cards come out (more then we originally thought). Ok, now ur being crazy. The X1900 obsolete? Maybe in 6 years, and even then do u call a card that can run a GAME like Oblivion and Crysis obsolete? Graphics in the near future arent going to expand the way they have in the past, there will mostly be much smaller DIFFERENCES in graphics QUALITY in games then there was up until now. Once the DX10 cards from ATI are released (X2K), wich will be likely in over 6 months, then of course at that point there will be a price decrease for the X1K series, but it wont be that great, mostly because the X1900 cards are very "future-proof" with their 48 fragment pipelines, even though they have little texture fill so that definition is usually useless.

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According to Download.com, the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB is currently the single best video card AVAILABLE on the market. However, the review also says that after Vista and the release of many new Next-Gen games and technology during that time, even this card will become almost obsolete.

So does anyone think that existing decent video cards like the ATI X1900 would undergo massive price drops too? If so, then I'll be able to save myself a pretty penny and still get a card to play some pretty decent games. Im not worried about that. Im sure they will include support for the vid cards out now and the graphics for those are still really good.If Vista ships on time...and that's a big IF yes you will see a drop in pricing. But i don't think it will be as drastic as you might think.
Everyone is not gonna go out and buy a new machine just so they can run Vista.
I know people still running OS's older than XP.

patio. 8-)XP is the new 98.Quote

According to Download.com, the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB is currently the single best video card available on the market. However, the review also says that after Vista and the release of many new Next-Gen games and technology during that time, even this card will become almost obsolete.

So does anyone think that existing decent video cards like the ATI X1900 would undergo massive price drops too? If so, then I'll be able to save myself a pretty penny and still get a card to play some pretty decent games.

That depends what u mean "single" card. The Nvidia 7950 GX2 is the fastest card on a single PCI-E slot. But it actually consists of 2 cards. The X1950XTX is pretty much the same in performance as the X1900XTX, in wich the increase in memory bandwidth does little for the overall performance. So that means that either the 7900 GTX or the X1900XTX are the 2 best "single" cards in the world (there really is no Best, they are both the best in DIFFERENT games), while the X1950XTX is very slightly faster then both of them so its possible to say that its the best "single" card on earth, but thats mostly at higher resolutions. And thats just because it was released 2 days ago.

Also, the release of VISTA will trigger the price decrease? That makes no sence, if anything it should increase it. The only thing that can draw a price cut in pretty anything, is if something newer comes to replace it, in this case the DX10 cards.

Waiting till march to buy the X1900 is a very stupid idea. The price cut would be only very small, and who knows how much better the X2800 would be over it? Its a completely different structure, and for only abt 100$ more u can get it. You can also sell ur X1900 if u want, when the time comes.
Buying a 7900 GTX/X1900XT right now is a pretty good idea, since it seems like it will be a while till the new cards come out (more then we originally thought).
Ok, now ur being crazy. The X1900 obsolete? Maybe in 6 years, and even then do u call a card that can run a GAME like Oblivion and Crysis obsolete? Graphics in the near future arent going to expand the way they have in the past, there will mostly be much smaller DIFFERENCES in graphics QUALITY in games then there was up until now.
Once the DX10 cards from ATI are released (X2K), wich will be likely in over 6 months, then of course at that point there will be a price decrease for the X1K series, but it wont be that great, mostly because the X1900 cards are very "future-proof" with their 48 fragment pipelines, even though they have little texture fill so that definition is usually useless.

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