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Atlantis Radeon 9100 or Creative FX5200?
I have £90 to spend on a graphics card and I am really only willing
to purchase it from a highstreet store since I if it's faulty I can just take it straight back. I'm aware that I'm gonna fork out about £20 more for that privilege so unless you really think that the prices I quote are completely nutty then please don't tell me about the £20 price differential. Basically, my Voodoo5 has now become totally useless to me. I used to use my PC for 3d Studio Max, Midtown Madness, Activision Star Trek sims and occasionally Flight Sims, GTA etc etc and whereas the older software worked fine the new software worked but lacked all the advertised T&L effects. Now it's got to the stage where my graphics (and my 900mhz AMD @957 - don't tell me about it, when Christmas comes I'll be getting a new beast) have become too decrepit to handle the latest releases. Firstly, FS2004 is unusable...although loadable and jerky. But, the final straw on the camel's back was Enter the Matrix, which I cannot load at all. (Card must have HW T&L, also device should be compatible with dx9) I've had a look on the websites for my highstreet stores and I've got a shortlist of two cards to choose from (although if you really think I'd be better off spending my money on another card please feel free to suggest it). Atlantis ATI Radeon 9100 (128mb DDR) - £90 Creative GeForce FX5200 (64mb DDR) - £63. I looked for non-Creative as in my experience they are slower, but no such luck. Bearing in mind what I want to use the graphics card for, what do you suggest? Thanks in advance, Jake |
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Hello,
I'm not sure if this helps but I'm running a circa 1997 BX system with a 900 MHz Celeron processor. Using 3D Mark 2001 SE, I benchmarked using my old and new video card. My old card was a Radeon 7000LE while my new card was a Radeon Sapphire 9100 128 MB. After overclocking the Radeon 9100 to 290 core 250 memory, the 3D Mark 2001 SE scored doubled to 5800. The biggest difference are games which employ T&L. The hardware T&L on the 9100 made a huge difference in games like Dungeon Siege. The problem is that the 9100 core is an R200 GPU which is only compliant with DX 8.1 and does not support all the features in DX 9, something you may want to consider given Half-Life 2 and Doom 3 imminent release. ShinCat. wrote in message ... I have £90 to spend on a graphics card and I am really only willing to purchase it from a highstreet store since I if it's faulty I can just take it straight back. I'm aware that I'm gonna fork out about £20 more for that privilege so unless you really think that the prices I quote are completely nutty then please don't tell me about the £20 price differential. Basically, my Voodoo5 has now become totally useless to me. I used to use my PC for 3d Studio Max, Midtown Madness, Activision Star Trek sims and occasionally Flight Sims, GTA etc etc and whereas the older software worked fine the new software worked but lacked all the advertised T&L effects. Now it's got to the stage where my graphics (and my 900mhz AMD @957 - don't tell me about it, when Christmas comes I'll be getting a new beast) have become too decrepit to handle the latest releases. Firstly, FS2004 is unusable...although loadable and jerky. But, the final straw on the camel's back was Enter the Matrix, which I cannot load at all. (Card must have HW T&L, also device should be compatible with dx9) I've had a look on the websites for my highstreet stores and I've got a shortlist of two cards to choose from (although if you really think I'd be better off spending my money on another card please feel free to suggest it). Atlantis ATI Radeon 9100 (128mb DDR) - £90 Creative GeForce FX5200 (64mb DDR) - £63. I looked for non-Creative as in my experience they are slower, but no such luck. Bearing in mind what I want to use the graphics card for, what do you suggest? Thanks in advance, Jake |
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