I am currently considering getting this card, I am planning a serious pc upgrade in June/July depending how the job goes but I will certainly buy a ATI card... I may wait a little while for other versions of the card to become available and the drivers to be improved. The Radeon 2900XT has 512mb of ram right? now i am not a techno geek like some people here but how much does the graphics ram actually matter to the performance?

will a nVidia 8800gtx 768mb out perform a radeon 2900xt 512mb ?

I know not all the performace is down to the ram, but instead the architecture but there must be some benefit in having more ram.. right?

mad

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I know not all the performace is down to the ram, but instead the architecture but there must be some benefit in having more ram.. right?

It's mostly about having more room for bigger textures. I would (and did) personally go for as much ram as you can get on the card.

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will a nVidia 8800gtx 768mb out perform a radeon 2900xt 512mb ?

Yes, atm the 29000 is a lame duck - in the US their giving free games and gaming mice away with the thing and it STILL won't sell!

Kev- I just found this and thought of you...

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now I've bought a 8800GTS 640Mb I'm having a hard time figuring out what I'm going to use it for

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