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Buying a new system. I have 4 video card choices. Need advice.
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... I haven't kept up with the latest news so can you help me choose. I'm a game player but do dabble in photoshop as well. ATI radeon 9600 Pro Asus V9280 TI4200 Radeon 9000 LE Geforce MX440 All are 128 mg cards. the GeForce is the cheapest. Funny joke, not.... Obviously the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, by a few clear miles! or why not a 9700 NP overclocked to Pro speeds, another option... |
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Im personally getting the sapphire radeon 9600 pro card, and i think its the
best way to go. You dont want to touch the geforce mx, or radeon 9000 for game wise, the ti 4200 maybe a little close to the 9600 pros performance but its old technology, and isnt direct x 9 compatible. Plus the 9600 pro is amazingly overclockable, so i suggest the Sapphire Radeon 9600 pro. it has a good software bundle, cheaper than the ati built card, and also simply looks alot better than the plain green pcb from ati. wrote in message ... On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 13:17:50 +1000, "Minotaur" wrote: wrote in message .. . I haven't kept up with the latest news so can you help me choose. I'm a game player but do dabble in photoshop as well. ATI radeon 9600 Pro Asus V9280 TI4200 Radeon 9000 LE Geforce MX440 All are 128 mg cards. the GeForce is the cheapest. Funny joke, not.... Obviously the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, by a few clear miles! or why not a 9700 NP overclocked to Pro speeds, another option... I'm not made of money. The 9600 is $200CDN more than the others. What do I gain with that card? |
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just to correct myself, when i said the ti 4200 is a little close to the
9600 pro's performance its not really its simply the second in line performance wise, but it still lags behind the 9600by quite a bit and is old technology. "Simon-Pierre" wrote in message ... Im personally getting the sapphire radeon 9600 pro card, and i think its the best way to go. You dont want to touch the geforce mx, or radeon 9000 for game wise, the ti 4200 maybe a little close to the 9600 pros performance but its old technology, and isnt direct x 9 compatible. Plus the 9600 pro is amazingly overclockable, so i suggest the Sapphire Radeon 9600 pro. it has a good software bundle, cheaper than the ati built card, and also simply looks alot better than the plain green pcb from ati. wrote in message ... On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 13:17:50 +1000, "Minotaur" wrote: wrote in message .. . I haven't kept up with the latest news so can you help me choose. I'm a game player but do dabble in photoshop as well. ATI radeon 9600 Pro Asus V9280 TI4200 Radeon 9000 LE Geforce MX440 All are 128 mg cards. the GeForce is the cheapest. Funny joke, not.... Obviously the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, by a few clear miles! or why not a 9700 NP overclocked to Pro speeds, another option... I'm not made of money. The 9600 is $200CDN more than the others. What do I gain with that card? |
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On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 01:46:55 -0400
"Simon-Pierre" wrote: Im personally getting the sapphire radeon 9600 pro card, and i think its the best way to go. You dont want to touch the geforce mx, or radeon 9000 for game wise, the ti 4200 maybe a little close to the 9600 pros performance but its old technology, and isnt direct x 9 compatible. What leads you to believe that the ti 4200 is not DirectX 9 _compatible_? It doesn't accelerate the new functions of DirectX 9, but that does not make it incompatible, it merely means that the software versions of those functions will be used instead, which results in a performance hit if they are turned on in the application that you are running. Plus the 9600 pro is amazingly overclockable, so i suggest the Sapphire Radeon 9600 pro. it has a good software bundle, cheaper than the ati built card, and also simply looks alot better than the plain green pcb from wrote in message ... On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 13:17:50 +1000, "Minotaur" wrote: wrote in message .. . I haven't kept up with the latest news so can you help me choose. I'm a game player but do dabble in photoshop as well. ATI radeon 9600 Pro Asus V9280 TI4200 Radeon 9000 LE Geforce MX440 All are 128 mg cards. the GeForce is the cheapest. Funny joke, not.... Obviously the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, by a few clear miles! or why not a 9700 NP overclocked to Pro speeds, another option... I'm not made of money. The 9600 is $200CDN more than the others. What do I gain with that card? -- -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 08:59:41 -0700, wrote:
Thanks guys. I've decided to bite the bullet and get the 9600. Good move.. worth it in the long run. Pluvious |
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great choice, like pluvious said itll be good in the long run, the card wont
be absolete in 2 months, got to love its overclock too. wrote in message ... Thanks guys. I've decided to bite the bullet and get the 9600. |
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I have a ?. Would i be better off getting that 9600 Pro and a tv tuner card
or just bite the bullet and get the 9800 AIW? I`m going to use both WinXP and Linux (Lindows 4.0 really) Anything would be better then this very old Rage pro card I`m now using. "Simon-Pierre" wrote in message ... great choice, like pluvious said itll be good in the long run, the card wont be absolete in 2 months, got to love its overclock too. wrote in message ... Thanks guys. I've decided to bite the bullet and get the 9600. |
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On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 05:33:38 GMT
"R&B" wrote: I have a ?. Would i be better off getting that 9600 Pro and a tv tuner card or just bite the bullet and get the 9800 AIW? I`m going to use both WinXP and Linux (Lindows 4.0 really) Anything would be better then this very old Rage pro card I`m now using. For Linux the answer is "neither". The Linux drivers for the 9600/9800 aren't out yet, and the drivers for the older boards don't work with them, so you've basically got an expensive SVGA board until the drivers are ready. You'd do better to go with a 9700, whether AIW or otherwise--the drivers for them_are_ available. Personally for Linux I'd go with a separate tuner--the Hauppauge PVR-250 and 350 are nice if you don't need uncompressed capture--they have hardware compression but only allow access to the compressed stream. Otherwise, anything based on a Brooktree/Conexant 848,849,878, or 879 ADC will probably work--do check the particular product you're considering against the compatibility list at http://bytesex.org/bttv/ before you buy--the brooktrees are easier to set up with Linux IMO than the AIW. "Simon-Pierre" wrote in message ... great choice, like pluvious said itll be good in the long run, the card wont be absolete in 2 months, got to love its overclock too. wrote in message ... Thanks guys. I've decided to bite the bullet and get the 9600. -- -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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