What graphics card should i get.?

I have battlefield 2142 and I'd like to know what graphics card i should get. Which one is better, the 7900 gs, or the 8600 gt. I found one 8600 gt for $140, and a 7900 gs for $170. I'd like the 8600 gt, but i also want the better one. Which one should i buy.

What graphics card should i get.?

I think 8600GTS or 7950GT is better...

What graphics card should i get.?

8600 gt that one sounds the better and cheaper

What graphics card should i get.?

I have the 7900 GS. It runs that game on full no problems. There are a lot of other factors though like CPU and RAM. Also, those cards are out of date and you should only be really looking at the 8800 series. Anyways, I would go with the 8600 GT. A little slower than the 7900GS but you get DirectX 10 with it.

What graphics card should i get.?

I'd go for the 8600, has GDDR3 memory and Direct X 10 compatibility.

What graphics card should i get.?

none of the above!

http://www.tigerdirect.com/

XFX GeForce 8800 GTS Extreme

and/or

Diamond Radeon HD 2400 Pro 256MB PCIe

What graphics card should i get.?

always check out specs first

GeForce 7900 GS

Graphics Bus Technology PCI Express

Memory 256MB

Memory Interface 256-bit

Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 42.2

Fill Rate (Billion pixels/sec) 9

Vertices/Second 822.5 Million

Pixels per clock (peak) 20

RAMDACs (MHz) 400

GeForce 8600 GT

Stream Processors 32

Core Clock (MHz) 540

Shader Clock (MHz) 1180

Memory Clock (MHz) 700

Memory Amount 256MB GDDR3

Memory Interface 128-bit

Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 22.4

Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 8.6

in conclusion,

7900 is better cos it is using 256-bit memory interface. compare memory bandwidth and you can see doubled perf on 7900.

also, fill rate of 7900 is slightly better.

one comment on Direct X 10. lots of people seem to think its the way to go, but i run XP so i dont care about Direct X 10. i am not moving to Vista. when i use Vista, i expect to cough up a bomb to ensure full Vista compatibility (probably in 2009)