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Default Help, which would you choose.

Simple quick question. Hypothetically speaking if you had your choice between two PC systems that were exactly the same but had diffrent video cards which would you choose??

The one with a 2900pro 1gb graphics card.

Or the 8800gts 320mb card.

Thanks for your opinions.
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Default Help, which would you choose.

The 8800. It'll game upto a res of 1680x1050 (20-22" screen) with AA and AF.

1gb of ram on a card, of that specification, is overkill, massively. The 2900 is comparable in performance (ram aside) to a 8800GTS. Neither card can game at 1920x1200 with any degree of detail or decent framerates so why a gb of ram on the ATI card?

But you'll be paying extra for the 1gb version of the 2900 over and above the 512mb version.

One again it's simply a marketing ploy by AMD. They'll assume people will see the higher amount of ram and assume it's the better card, so they're also insulting your intelligence as most people purchasing such a card are enthusiast's, and therefore know a thing or two about pc components.

The things to look for in a DX10 card are: Gpu speed, memory speed, memory controller bit-width, stream shader speed, amount of stream shaders.

Sod the ram amount over and above what is necessary to game at the resolutions said card is capable of. And it will be fitted with this amount as a matter of course.
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