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Stealth 9550 - Any good vs the Radeon 9200SE?
"Leythos" wrote in message .. . I see that MicroCenter has a sale on the 256MB Stealth 9550 AGP card and I would like to get better game play for FarCry, Counter-Strike, and Doom3. My current P4/1.8 is running a retail Radeon 9200SE VIVO. While I would love to have the VIVO, if the card performs significantly better I might buy it - they want $99 for it. Anyone know the performance differences between the 9200SE VIVO and the Stealth 9550? Dunno about the stealth but the 9200 series were crap. Clock locked to underperform. I had a 256Mb 9200 and I "upgraded' to a 128Mb 8500Pro. Performance was noticeaby better. The 9500 has 4 pipelines, 275Mhz Clock, and 540Mhz Memory speed. Very similar to my 8500 in fact, and that played Far Cry quite well in low res. It struggles a bit on Medium, and won't do High. Maybe save and get a 9600 instead. I would if I were you. |
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Leythos wrote:
I see that MicroCenter has a sale on the 256MB Stealth 9550 AGP card and I would like to get better game play for FarCry, Counter-Strike, and Doom3. My current P4/1.8 is running a retail Radeon 9200SE VIVO. While I would love to have the VIVO, if the card performs significantly better I might buy it - they want $99 for it. Anyone know the performance differences between the 9200SE VIVO and the Stealth 9550? On my old 9600XT I was able to play Doom 3 at 800x600 on high, Far cry at 1024x768 on medium and HL2 at 1024x768 on high. The 9550 has half the core clock speed and 1/3 less memory speed so you would be taking a bit of a hit. Personally I suggest saving up for a 9600 Pro unless the 9550 stealth card is a potentially good overclocker and you're willing to gamble on this. Having said that, prior to the 9600XT I had a 9550SE (SE being about 60% slower than a standard 9550 due to a 64bit vs 128bit memory bus), and I was able to play Call of Duty at 1024x768 on medium fine. I tried the doom demo, but I was trying it at 1024x768 on medium and it was no good. One other thing, I found that upgrading from 512mb of ram to 1gb of RAM gave Far Cry and Doom 3 a major boost, smoothing everything out... |
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I bought a Sapphire 9550 128 Mb for the AGP and later I flashed the bios of it to turn it into a 9600 Pro. That is RV350 to RV360, w/ 128-bit mem bus. I´ve got it running 400MHz Gpu & 230MHz Mem. The 9600 has a wide range of performance values, but you have to probe your card with ATITool and later flash it with a suitable bios from the 9600 series. :-) D-Lito Leythos wrote: I see that MicroCenter has a sale on the 256MB Stealth 9550 AGP card and I would like to get better game play for FarCry, Counter-Strike, and Doom3. My current P4/1.8 is running a retail Radeon 9200SE VIVO. While I would love to have the VIVO, if the card performs significantly better I might buy it - they want $99 for it. Anyone know the performance differences between the 9200SE VIVO and the Stealth 9550? |
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ofn01 wrote:
Leythos wrote: I see that MicroCenter has a sale on the 256MB Stealth 9550 AGP card and I would like to get better game play for FarCry, Counter-Strike, and Doom3. My current P4/1.8 is running a retail Radeon 9200SE VIVO. While I would love to have the VIVO, if the card performs significantly better I might buy it - they want $99 for it. Anyone know the performance differences between the 9200SE VIVO and the Stealth 9550? On my old 9600XT I was able to play Doom 3 at 800x600 on high, Far cry at 1024x768 on medium and HL2 at 1024x768 on high. The 9550 has half the core clock speed and 1/3 less memory speed so you would be taking a bit of a hit. Personally I suggest saving up for a 9600 Pro unless the 9550 stealth card is a potentially good overclocker and you're willing to gamble on this. Having said that, prior to the 9600XT I had a 9550SE (SE being about 60% slower than a standard 9550 due to a 64bit vs 128bit memory bus), and I was able to play Call of Duty at 1024x768 on medium fine. I tried the doom demo, but I was trying it at 1024x768 on medium and it was no good. One other thing, I found that upgrading from 512mb of ram to 1gb of RAM gave Far Cry and Doom 3 a major boost, smoothing everything out... Sorry above I meant to say that a 9550SE is about 30% slower than a standard 9550. |
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"Leythos" wrote in message .. . I see that MicroCenter has a sale on the 256MB Stealth 9550 AGP card and I would like to get better game play for FarCry, Counter-Strike, and Doom3. My current P4/1.8 is running a retail Radeon 9200SE VIVO. While I would love to have the VIVO, if the card performs significantly better I might buy it - they want $99 for it. Anyone know the performance differences between the 9200SE VIVO and the Stealth 9550? -- remove 999 in order to email me If this is the card you're looking at http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0181725 it has 2 programmable vertex shader pipelines whereas your 9200 has 1 I think it has 400mhz DDR memory whereas a 9200 will be 200-250mhz DDR and its 128-bit whereas a SE will be 64-bit. it also does directx 9 shaders whereas a 9200 is directx8 only. its a much better card than a 9200SE |
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