New Video Card.
LemurZoboomafoo
Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8131Members
Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8131Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Wanna help me pick one?</div> I've got a PCI GeForce2 MX200 right now.
ASUS A7N8X 2.0 Deluxe board,
Corsair 512MB DDR PC3200 400MHz DIMM,
AthlonXP 2600+ 333MHz Thoroughbred.
Just trying to choose what video card I want to put in this thing. Thinkin about this one right here.
<a href='http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=14-102-303' target='_blank'>http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?...tion=14-102-303</a>
What do you guys think for a max budget of $175?
ASUS A7N8X 2.0 Deluxe board,
Corsair 512MB DDR PC3200 400MHz DIMM,
AthlonXP 2600+ 333MHz Thoroughbred.
Just trying to choose what video card I want to put in this thing. Thinkin about this one right here.
<a href='http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=14-102-303' target='_blank'>http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?...tion=14-102-303</a>
What do you guys think for a max budget of $175?
Comments
ROFLMAO!
OMG, that 8-bit skulk is attacking with the 8-bit Lork on that flat 2 colour clorf!
I say go with ATI cards.
They are BANG for the BUCK.
Personally, if you have the cash I'd go with an R9600 ProXT if you can wait a little... apparently from independent benchmarks, it outstrips the R9700 Pro in all respects, for a bit under $200.
Concur. Though if you ABSOLUTELY MUST BUY NOW, I'd say get the <a href='http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=14-131-227' target='_blank'>Radeon 9600 Pro</a> with 256mb RAM. It's clocked lower than the upcoming 9600XT, and doesn't perform as well as the nearly impossible-to-find 9500 pro, but it has 256MB of RAM for upcoming texture-heavy games like Half-Life 2 and Doom 3.
Concur. Though if you ABSOLUTELY MUST BUY NOW, I'd say get the <a href='http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?description=14-131-227' target='_blank'>Radeon 9600 Pro</a> with 256mb RAM. It's clocked lower than the upcoming 9600XT, and doesn't perform as well as the nearly impossible-to-find 9500 pro, but it has 256MB of RAM for upcoming texture-heavy games like Half-Life 2 and Doom 3. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Uhhh. Dude HL2 and Doom3 are going to be optimized for 128 meg performance. Think about it, as a game developer are you going to make a product to appeal to a small audience who buys $200+ graphics cards, or the masses who buy $100 economy cards.
And I'd have to look around to find the benchmarks... they had them in a lineup with the 9800 XT, 9600 XT, 9500, 9700, 9600, 9800 (all Pros), and the GFFX 5900 Ultra, GF4 Ti4200, and a smattering of the other FX cards. Ran them through a bunch, and excepting in stuff like Q3A and RTCW (based off Q3A, yes) the R9800 XT couldn't be touched. Even in Q3A, it only lost by about 5fps... which isn't much, when you're measuring fps in the 300-400/s range. And when the card did its little auto-overclock thing... whoo. It WAS untouchable. Plus, you didn't get any of the ugly blur nVidia cards have to resort to in some games to get the framerate up.
Im gonna get the 9800XT come spring.
True. But it's never a bad idea to have extra memory on your vid card. Besides, would you want the target card for a given game or something with a fairly sizeable overhead? The doubled RAM means that you'll have R9600Pro performance (not shabby at all) with enough RAM to support mods that take HL2 texturing to a new level.