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I believe your choice should be neither card as you can get a Radeon 9800
128 meg card for about 144 US dollars or an NVIDIA 5900 128 meg card for the price of the FX 5700 Ultra. regards B "RobM" wrote in message ... Hi, I built a new system over Christmas. The new system is a Celeron 1.7Ghz in a motherboard with a 533FSB. I know the CPU isn't the fastest, but I can upgrade up to a P4 at 3.06Gz later. My old system was an old Dell XPT with a 1.3 Celeron, but the motherboard only had a 100FSB. But I digress.... I have a GeForce3 TI200 that I am going to move to the new system. Would it be worth it to upgrade to a FX5700 Ultra or a Radeon 9600XT? Which card is better/faster. Will I notice a difference compared to my G3 TI200 (I think it has 64megs)? The FX5700 is about 30 cheaper than the 9600XT. Is there any difference between a Radeon 9600 and 9600XT? I know there are faster card, but that is all my budget can afford. Thanks for the advice.........................Rob |
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Video card upgrade...Radeon VS Nvidia
Hi,
I built a new system over Christmas. The new system is a Celeron 1.7Ghz in a motherboard with a 533FSB. I know the CPU isn't the fastest, but I can upgrade up to a P4 at 3.06Gz later. My old system was an old Dell XPT with a 1.3 Celeron, but the motherboard only had a 100FSB. But I digress.... I have a GeForce3 TI200 that I am going to move to the new system. Would it be worth it to upgrade to a FX5700 Ultra or a Radeon 9600XT? Which card is better/faster. Will I notice a difference compared to my G3 TI200 (I think it has 64megs)? The FX5700 is about 30 cheaper than the 9600XT. Is there any difference between a Radeon 9600 and 9600XT? I know there are faster card, but that is all my budget can afford. Thanks for the advice.........................Rob |
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Oopps: This will be used for gaming...........Rob
"RobM" wrote in message ... Hi, I built a new system over Christmas. The new system is a Celeron 1.7Ghz in a motherboard with a 533FSB. I know the CPU isn't the fastest, but I can upgrade up to a P4 at 3.06Gz later. My old system was an old Dell XPT with a 1.3 Celeron, but the motherboard only had a 100FSB. But I digress.... I have a GeForce3 TI200 that I am going to move to the new system. Would it be worth it to upgrade to a FX5700 Ultra or a Radeon 9600XT? Which card is better/faster. Will I notice a difference compared to my G3 TI200 (I think it has 64megs)? The FX5700 is about 30 cheaper than the 9600XT. Is there any difference between a Radeon 9600 and 9600XT? I know there are faster card, but that is all my budget can afford. Thanks for the advice.........................Rob |
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On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:24:46 -0500, "RobM" wrote:
Is there any difference between a Radeon 9600 and 9600XT? I know there are faster card, but that is all my budget can afford. Thanks for the advice.........................Rob 9600se = crawl 9600 = walk 9600pro = jog 9600xt = run Gotta go, Magwheelz |
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The 9600XT has slightly better images and is slightly faster. The 5700
Ultra has much more stable drivers. You decide. Whichever you get it will give your computer DX9 capability for the latest games, which you don't currently have with your GF3 Ti200. -- DaveW "RobM" wrote in message ... Hi, I built a new system over Christmas. The new system is a Celeron 1.7Ghz in a motherboard with a 533FSB. I know the CPU isn't the fastest, but I can upgrade up to a P4 at 3.06Gz later. My old system was an old Dell XPT with a 1.3 Celeron, but the motherboard only had a 100FSB. But I digress.... I have a GeForce3 TI200 that I am going to move to the new system. Would it be worth it to upgrade to a FX5700 Ultra or a Radeon 9600XT? Which card is better/faster. Will I notice a difference compared to my G3 TI200 (I think it has 64megs)? The FX5700 is about 30 cheaper than the 9600XT. Is there any difference between a Radeon 9600 and 9600XT? I know there are faster card, but that is all my budget can afford. Thanks for the advice.........................Rob |
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"DaveW" wrote in message news:THIHb.158709$8y1.473974@attbi_s52... The 9600XT has slightly better images and is slightly faster. The 5700 Ultra has much more stable drivers. You decide. Whichever you get it will give your computer DX9 capability for the latest games, which you don't currently have with your GF3 Ti200. -- DaveW "RobM" wrote in message ... Hi, I built a new system over Christmas. The new system is a Celeron 1.7Ghz in a motherboard with a 533FSB. I know the CPU isn't the fastest, but I can upgrade up to a P4 at 3.06Gz later. My old system was an old Dell XPT with a 1.3 Celeron, but the motherboard only had a 100FSB. But I digress.... I have a GeForce3 TI200 that I am going to move to the new system. Would it be worth it to upgrade to a FX5700 Ultra or a Radeon 9600XT? Which card is better/faster. Will I notice a difference compared to my G3 TI200 (I think it has 64megs)? The FX5700 is about 30 cheaper than the 9600XT. Is there any difference between a Radeon 9600 and 9600XT? I know there are faster card, but that is all my budget can afford. Thanks for the advice.........................Rob Like Anandtech or not, here are a load of gaming figures so YOU can decide which card you would prefer depending on the amount of money you wish to spend. It's all down to the individual game and optimisations at the end of the day. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1933&p=1 Slightly off topic: One week ago: Rebuilt a system with Windows 2000, installed SP4, ALL updates. Fine. Installed Nvidia drivers, not that old. Fine. Today went back and un-installed old drivers and installed new NVidia drivers. Ba ha haa. The Advanced display properties would not appear stating a desk.cpl error. Used Det Destroyer and re-installed new drivers. Same thing. Went back to the original CD and all is fine. Stable? yes, good drivers in the whole sense of the word good? No. ATI and Nvidia just as bad as each other. Disclaimer: Please do not let the above put you off your choice! I have had both an ATi and Nvidia card(s) and as long as the price is right, I'll come on down. Woohoo! (Matrox M3d, Voodoo 2, Voodoo 2 SLI, ATI Rage Fury Maxx, Geforce 2 MX, Geforce 3 Ti200, Geforce 3Ti-500, Geforce 4ti 4200, and finally Radeon 9800 (Non-Pro) All worked without fail apart from the Creative 3D Savage 4 S3 crap) |
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"Dam6" wrote in message
... "DaveW" wrote in message news:THIHb.158709$8y1.473974@attbi_s52... The 9600XT has slightly better images and is slightly faster. The 5700 Ultra has much more stable drivers. You decide. Whichever you get it will give your computer DX9 capability for the latest games, which you don't currently have with your GF3 Ti200. -- DaveW "RobM" wrote in message ... Hi, I built a new system over Christmas. The new system is a Celeron 1.7Ghz in a motherboard with a 533FSB. I know the CPU isn't the fastest, but I can upgrade up to a P4 at 3.06Gz later. My old system was an old Dell XPT with a 1.3 Celeron, but the motherboard only had a 100FSB. But I digress.... I have a GeForce3 TI200 that I am going to move to the new system. Would it be worth it to upgrade to a FX5700 Ultra or a Radeon 9600XT? Which card is better/faster. Will I notice a difference compared to my G3 TI200 (I think it has 64megs)? The FX5700 is about 30 cheaper than the 9600XT. Is there any difference between a Radeon 9600 and 9600XT? I know there are faster card, but that is all my budget can afford. Thanks for the advice.........................Rob Like Anandtech or not, here are a load of gaming figures so YOU can decide which card you would prefer depending on the amount of money you wish to spend. It's all down to the individual game and optimisations at the end of the day. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1933&p=1 The card missing from that comparison beats all challengers in the sub $200 range (including the 9800 np at times) - the 5900 SE/XT (same card). Check out these numbers - it leaves the 9600 XT and 5700 Ultra in the dust for $189 with a free copy of CoD if you hurry (just got one for my kids PC last week - great budget card). http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...900_xt_review/ -- Joe M. |
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"RobM" wrote in message ... Hi, I built a new system over Christmas. The new system is a Celeron 1.7Ghz in a motherboard with a 533FSB. I know the CPU isn't the fastest, but I can upgrade up to a P4 at 3.06Gz later. My old system was an old Dell XPT with a 1.3 Celeron, but the motherboard only had a 100FSB. But I digress.... You'll notice little difference between a 5700 and 9600 with that processor, it's slower than a 1Ghz Amd Duron and will have nowhere near enough power to run a top graphics card like a 9800 or 5900. |
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"Dam6" wrote in message ... Like Anandtech or not, here are a load of gaming figures so YOU can decide which card you would prefer depending on the amount of money you wish to spend. It's all down to the individual game and optimisations at the end of the day. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1933&p=1 They're testing budget graphics cards with an Athlon FX lol! |
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"Max Longman" wrote in message ... "Dam6" wrote in message ... Like Anandtech or not, here are a load of gaming figures so YOU can decide which card you would prefer depending on the amount of money you wish to spend. It's all down to the individual game and optimisations at the end of the day. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1933&p=1 They're testing budget graphics cards with an Athlon FX lol! God Bless Anand! |
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