what is better 9500pro or 9600pro?

9500 Pro

"Overlord 666" wrote in message
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I am going to buy one of those

Hercules 3d prophet 9500 pro 128MB DDR
Hercules 3d prophet 9600 pro 128MB DDR

Please Help, what Is better

"Overlord 666" wrote in message
...
I am going to buy one of those

Hercules 3d prophet 9500 pro 128MB DDR
Hercules 3d prophet 9600 pro 128MB DDR

Depends what you're after. For raw power at stock speeds, the 9500Pro wins
in most head to heads. But at a cost. It's design was cutting edge when
released with the 9700, but requires a beefy PSU and extra, often noisy
cooling. They're also getting hard to find these days as they have been
superseded by the cheaper 9600. Might be worth shelling out the extra bucks
for a 9700, or a standard 9500, many of which could be modded to a 9700.

The 9600 is based on the first GPU ATI built from the 0.13 micron process.
As a result, it is cheaper to build (and usually cheaper to buy), doesn't
require additional power and runs cooler and quieter. Further, it has a lot
of headroom for easy overclocking. Many cards are achieving increases of
over 25% over stock core and RAM speeds, and it's a piece of **** with a
program like RadClocker which just adds another tab to your display
properties. At these speeds, on top of it's already improved core speed (and
despite the halving of rendering pipelines from 8 to 4), it beats the
9500pro in the majority of head to heads.

For myself, an inaudible fan was a must, as was getting bang for buck. I got
a 128Mb 9600Pro VIVO for cheaper than a 9500 non-pro non-VIVO and couldn't
be happier. Especially now I've overclocked it to a level where it
outperforms a similarly overclocked 9500Pro in the majority of benchmarks.

http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardwa...ocked/page15.a
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http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDY0LDQ=

A couple of links that helped me decide on the same question...

"Metaphoid" wrote in message
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"Overlord 666" wrote in message
...
I am going to buy one of those

Hercules 3d prophet 9500 pro 128MB DDR
Hercules 3d prophet 9600 pro 128MB DDR

Depends what you're after. For raw power at stock speeds, the 9500Pro wins
in most head to heads. But at a cost. It's design was cutting edge when
released with the 9700, but requires a beefy PSU and extra, often noisy
cooling. They're also getting hard to find these days as they have been
superseded by the cheaper 9600. Might be worth shelling out the extra
bucks
for a 9700, or a standard 9500, many of which could be modded to a 9700.

The 9600 is based on the first GPU ATI built from the 0.13 micron process.
As a result, it is cheaper to build (and usually cheaper to buy), doesn't
require additional power and runs cooler and quieter. Further, it has a
lot
of headroom for easy overclocking. Many cards are achieving increases of
over 25% over stock core and RAM speeds, and it's a piece of **** with a
program like RadClocker which just adds another tab to your display
properties. At these speeds, on top of it's already improved core speed
(and
despite the halving of rendering pipelines from 8 to 4), it beats the
9500pro in the majority of head to heads.

For myself, an inaudible fan was a must, as was getting bang for buck. I
got
a 128Mb 9600Pro VIVO for cheaper than a 9500 non-pro non-VIVO and couldn't
be happier. Especially now I've overclocked it to a level where it
outperforms a similarly overclocked 9500Pro in the majority of benchmarks.

"Metaphoid" wrote in message
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"Overlord 666" wrote in message
...
I am going to buy one of those

Hercules 3d prophet 9500 pro 128MB DDR
Hercules 3d prophet 9600 pro 128MB DDR

Depends what you're after. For raw power at stock speeds, the 9500Pro wins
in most head to heads. But at a cost. It's design was cutting edge when
released with the 9700, but requires a beefy PSU and extra, often noisy
cooling. They're also getting hard to find these days as they have been
superseded by the cheaper 9600. Might be worth shelling out the extra
bucks
for a 9700, or a standard 9500, many of which could be modded to a 9700.

The 9600 is based on the first GPU ATI built from the 0.13 micron process.
As a result, it is cheaper to build (and usually cheaper to buy), doesn't
require additional power and runs cooler and quieter. Further, it has a
lot
of headroom for easy overclocking. Many cards are achieving increases of
over 25% over stock core and RAM speeds, and it's a piece of **** with a
program like RadClocker which just adds another tab to your display
properties. At these speeds, on top of it's already improved core speed
(and
despite the halving of rendering pipelines from 8 to 4), it beats the
9500pro in the majority of head to heads.

For myself, an inaudible fan was a must, as was getting for buck. I
got
a 128Mb 9600Pro VIVO for cheaper than a 9500 non-pro non-VIVO and couldn't
be happier. Especially now I've overclocked it to a level where it
outperforms a similarly overclocked 9500Pro in the majority of benchmarks.



VIVO stands for Video In Video Out, right? If so, wouldn't a 9600Pro VIVO
be the All In Wonder 9600 Pro? Or is there a company that makes a 9600Pro
card with just VIVO and no TV tuner?

Thanks,
Harry




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