July's Best Graphics Card for the Cash!(Malaysian Version)

Well, what a month June was!
First, there were the release of the GTX series by nVidia, produced another line of the fastest cards in the world, yet with a incredibly hefty price tag.
Then, comes the 4800 series by AMD/ATI, which totally rocked, and with a price that's so cheap, that caused a serious price drop on almost all cards of the previous generations.
Again, if you're a smart buyer, be sure to use this guide.


Best card for the price:
RM100-300
AMD/ATI HD 3650
Nothing to say, just, if you can save more money you shouldn't at all buy at this range.

RM300-500
nVidia Geforce 9600GSO
Just a renamed 8800GS, yet performs good at low resolutions, trails behind it's bigger brother, the 8800GT by just a little, again, at low resolutions(1680x1200 and below)
There are some of them which is sold below RM400, which is a superb deal.
If you want to save money or you play at low resolutions, this is definitely for you.

RM500-RM700
AMD/ATI HD4850
The new AMD/ATI card released just a few weeks ago, and it performed even better than the previously famed 9800GTX(RM1000^) at most games, most selling at RM700 and below, makes it the best pick this month, not only for this range, but it also gets the best price performance ratio of all cards here.
There is NO doubt the card is the best buy for this range.
Even the 8800GT sells at 650 in Malaysia now, but the 4850 just bashes all other nVidia cards at this price range(in Malaysia).

RM700-RM1000
AMD/ATI HD4870
Big brother of the 4850, this card performs like 80 percent of the fastest card GTX280, yet just 40 percent of it's price.
What more can I say? Superb deal.

Higer than RM1000? I would never recommend, it's just a waste of money, since the 4850 and the 4870's there.

Intel wants other GPU dead!

There were guns, and bombs, and better guns and bombs.
Then it came. The nuclear bomb.
Is Intel going to release the nuclear bomb, to just kill off all other GPUs?

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Int [...] 2565.shtml



"According to Fosner, multi-core processors could handle life-like animations, such as weather or effects better than dedicated GPUs. For instance, multi-core processors can handle the graphics tasks in a better manner than a high-end graphics board could ever do."

Imagine CPU technology can run games well. Yes, Intel's going to add something new to the GPU war, thanks to their CPU experiences.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Int [...] 1081.shtml

16 Graphics cores!
nVidia and ATI are sweating buckets!
Join Tom'sForum discussions here.

SLI gets no love from Intel!

Of the horrors of GPU and CPU, Intel's future processor, Nahelem, doesn't provide support for SLI!
Holy pancakes!
This is tragedy!
Not really, it's just a dangerous way of teaching nVidia a lesson.
nVidia, was once company of the year, once declined Intel to support SLI in Intel's X38/X48 boards, so that the nVidia's inferior boards would be the hot cakes.
Man, nVidia was showing their "PRIDE", and showed how many balls they had.
Boy oh boy, Intel has balls too.
And Intel's cutting nVidia's balls!
Who wins in this case? AMD/ATI!
Intel's Nahelem supports ATI's crossfireX, and nVidia will be looking at AMD to pour out their SLI boards.
Haha, nVidia's left alone...


OR NOT.
Just get a single powerful GPU. Problem solved.

So who's the winner? WE! THE CONSUMERS!
Join the discussion in Tom's forums here.

After being in Tom’s Forums for awhile…

I’ve been in Tom’s forums for like 2 months now. I really like it. The hospitality these dudes offer, how we talk about cards…
I love Tom’s forums. Especially the Graphics section.

I tried Lowyat forums, just to feel, more Malaysian.
I really hated there, where a you can’t repost a topic that has died a month ago…(Asus trinity 3850! I’ll remember this!)
The hardware section is so infested by nerds who so needed manner lessons…
In fact, I was seriously troubled by them, what the f*ck useless info the gave, and shitty language, and moderators who loves Hentai…
Shit, within 3 days I went back Tom’s forums and really loved it again till now.

From newbie, to journeyman, to a member now.
This was my first thread I started. In fact I started a similar thread at Lowyat forums, only to find unfriendly people hitting at me that this is a repost and later the moderator locked the thread and tells me to continue the argument in the old thread, which have died a few weeks earlier…
WTF…

Anyway, in Tom’s forums, there are some dudes that’ll be hard to forget.
-Marvelous211- with a red hair dude as his avatar, he loves the 8800GS. I remember him making reviews and benchmarks of the 8800GS. I’ll remember the red hair.
-DarthPiggie- We strongly agree that hamburgers are tasty and we love Rome Total War and Star Wars. He’s a good American patriot and could be the future president too. And I f*cking am envious of your space-tech liposuction machine! Yeah, keep eating hamburgers!
-L1qu1d- His desktop picture is so, him. And his 9800GX2. Whenever I see the word liquid, be it on the net or in the books, I’ll just get a desktop image in my head. Yeah, that’s L1qu1d from Tom’s forums…
-Mactronix- I like you signing off with your name, Mactronix… Cool dude…
-EXT64- Kinda reminds myself of my processor (AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+). And that tree…
-dagger- the guy who loves en.expreview.com and love benchmarks more than anyone else. Good dude too.
-crusoe74- The catfish picture!
-pauldh- I so remember the truck photo from Cars…
-randomizer- the smiling cat…
-TheGreatGrapeApe- coolest moderator!
-Maziar- Good Iranian patriot. Countries need patriots like him.

-annisman- He got a 9800GX2, and let his picture do the talking...

avatar of annisman...

Well, thank you all for being such good forum dudes.
I love Tom’s forums!

4800s!

Leak: ATI Radeon 4800 Gets 480 Stream Processors!

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ati-radeon-4800,5223.html
Check it out dudes!
2 more months and everything's gonna change.
Don't forget the prices too!

What can you expect...

OKay, Im not free right now, but here's what you can expect.
I'm gonna make a post about the battle between the 3870 vs 9600gt.
Not the same as what other websites have made.
The post will examine whose more futureproof.
Have a nice day guys...

PC Fair!

PC Fair!
Things are going to be cheap!

However, not all PC fairs are good.
Like Ipoh, you got nothing there.
KL's the best place for PC fair...

Anyway, Happy Shopping!