Which Video card is better

[Crisb92]

I have been thinking of upgrading my PC for a while now, so that it can actually run Oblivion well, to do this I am considering purchasing a new video card. From the following, could you give me an idea of what is important in a video card, and the better cards to buy. Oh, and also if they will work with Oblivion as I am unsure whether they are included in the "NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series, or higher video card." By the way, I have been told only to go with Nvidia cards on my setup by a rather knowledgeable friend of mine, so, while I would appreciate advice on ATI Radeons, I would prefer Nvidia. Also, I am a resident of Australia, so could you define which currency you are basing the prices of other suggestions on, or preferably a rough estimate into AUD, which are worth about 83.5 USD.

 

7300GT - 256MB - AGP - Leadtek Graphics Card - AU$143

GPU GeForce 7300 GT

Graphics Bus AGP 8X

Memory size 256MB DDR2

GPU/Memory clock 400/350MHz

Memory data rate 700MHz

Memory Interface 128-bit

Memory bandwidth( GB/sec.) 11.2

Fill Rate(billion texels/sec) 4.8

Vertices/sec (million) 500

Pixels per clock (peak) 8

RAMDACs (MHz) 400

Connectors HDTV-out / Dual link DVI-I/D-Sub

Multi-Display Yes

Adapter/Cable Bundled HDTV Cable x 1

DVI-to-VGA Adaptor x 1

4-pin Power Cable x 1

Software Bundled WinFast Graphics Driver CD (w/ WinFox II) x 1

Power DVD 6.0 x 1

 

7600GT - 256MB - AGP - Leadtek Graphics Card - AU$253

GPU GeForce 7600 GT

Graphics Bus AGP 8X

Memory size 256MB DDR3

GPU/Memory clock 560/700MHz

Memory data rate 1400MHz

Memory Interface 128-bit

Memory bandwidth( GB/sec.) 22.4

Fill Rate(billion texels/sec) 6.7

Vertices/sec (million) 700

Pixels per clock (peak) 12

RAMDACs (MHz) 400

Connectors HDTV-out / Dual link DVI-I/D-Sub

Multi-Display Yes

Adapter/Cable Bundled HDTV Cable x 1

DVI-to-VGA Adaptor x 1

4-pin Power Cable x 1

Software Bundled WinFast Graphics Driver CD (w/ WinFox II) x 1

Power DVD 6.0 x 1

Trackmania Nations - Special Edition x 1

SpellForce2 (or Serious Sam II) x 1

 

7600GT - 512MB - AGP - MSI Graphics Card - AU$244

Device Type Graphics adapter

Enclosure Type Plug-in card

Interface Type AGP 8x

Graphics Processor / Vendor NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT

RAMDAC Clock Speed 400 MHz

Video Memory Installed 512 MB

Technology DDR II SDRAM 128-bit

API Supported DirectX 9.0, OpenGL 2.0

Max Monitors Supported 2

TV Interface HDTV out

Analogue Video Format S-Video, composite video, component video

Digital Video Standard Digital Visual Interface (DVI)

Interfaces 1 x DVI-I - 29 pin combined DVI

1 x VGA - 15 pin HD D-Sub (HD-15)

1 x HDTV output

Compatible Slots 1 x AGP

Software Included Drivers & Utilities, Adobe Acrobat Reader, MediaRing Talk, ShowShifter, LockBox, ThinSoft BeTwin, WMIinfo, E-Color, MSI Live Update Series, MSI Secure DOC, GoodMEM, Norton Internet Security 2005, MSI Live, MSI VIVID, MSI StarOSD

Windows Vista Built for Windows Vista

 

Links to these card's sites can be found here, for those willing to go more depth into the issue.

Austin Computer's Price Guide

 

Thanks in advance for any replies,

Cris

[FerretMugger]

Well im assuming you can afford both ;) so looking at the details you've posted i would say that the 7600 is the better card, though i see no reason why either wouldn't play Oblivion well. I cant say if either are included in the 'NVIDIA GeForce 6800 series or higher' category, namely because it doesn't look like either are geforce cards.