Hello I am going to buy new graphic card and i am between two//
256Mb GeForce FX5600XT AGP8x Graphics Card £85.72
or
ATI 256Mb Radeon 9600ProSE Chipset AGP8x Graphics Card(Direct X 9 support) £116.27
( i am looking cards about £ 120)
what are the advantages and the disadvantages for each card compared with Lock-on & Falcon4 BMS+
By: mixtec - 18th January 2004 at 08:34
Originally posted by seahawk
Perhaps in March in March/April with the nextgen ATI / NV chips, but I doubt it. Even 256 MB has not many advantages today. 512MB would be useless for gaming. (fpr those doing 3D rendering – maybe)
256mb hasnt many advantages? Wouldnt you call running a game at 1600 x 1200 res at 200 fps an advantage? Could you explain as Ive heard 256 mb cards really power out on graphic intensive games.
By: seahawk - 13th January 2004 at 08:51
Perhaps in March in March/April with the nextgen ATI / NV chips, but I doubt it. Even 256 MB has not many advantages today. 512MB would be useless for gaming. (fpr those doing 3D rendering – maybe)
By: mixtec - 12th January 2004 at 17:25
Does anyone know when 512 mb cards will start coming on the market?
By: seahawk - 12th January 2004 at 13:49
Originally posted by user
actually if the geforce 5900 is obselete you need the ATI Hercules 256Mb DDR II 9800X you can get this from tekheads.
You see that he wanted to buy an FX5600XT – do you ??
By: user - 12th January 2004 at 10:43
actually if the geforce 5900 is obselete you need the ATI Hercules 256Mb DDR II 9800X you can get this from tekheads.
By: seahawk - 12th January 2004 at 09:44
Neither from the 2 mentioned above.
Both are really slow cards. A GeForce 4Ti 4200 is much faster.
So a good advice would be (from cheap to expensive)
– GeForce 4 Ti 4200
– Radeon 9600 Pro (mit 400Mhz CPU /600 Mhz RAM)
– Radeon 9600 XT
– GeForce FX 5900XT
– Radeon 9800pro
By: Rincewind - 11th January 2004 at 13:12
The best price vs performance card at the moment is probably the GeForce 5900 XT 128MB. It has the price of a midrange card (around 200 euros or 140 pounds) and the performance is in most cases pretty close to that of the high end cards out there.
Don’t worry about the “mere” 128MB, because that’s plenty for some time to come. Yes, the cards you mentioned have 256MB, but by the time it will be needed, those cards will be too slow anyway.
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January 11, 2004 at 12:50 pm