Superunknown Posted October 16, 2003 Share Posted October 16, 2003 Ive decided to switch video cards in the near future to one of the Radeon 9800's. I would rather spend 300$-400$ than 500$ for 9800 XT, though. Is there any signifigant differences between each of the cards performance-wise? Is it really worth it to spend the extra 100$-200$? Which would you recommend? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marxist ßastard Posted October 16, 2003 Share Posted October 16, 2003 Well, it's hard to find a good review, since most of the "insights" into this card feature more useless benchmarks (Benchmarks from utilities that, may I add, were basically reprogrammed by nVidia's legal crew and driver police) and nVidia / ATI controversy than anything else, so I can only give you my slightly uninformed opinion. If you have money to burn, get the card. If you don't care about the extra 20 fps in games that are already past completely fluid framerates, then get the 9800 256Mb and save some money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeLLL Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 I agree with Marxist. All the revies these days for hardware is basically Properganda for the g33ks of the world. Myself; I absoulty DETEST ATI. Why? Well for one there drivers are the most buggest pieces of pooe I have seen in a while. BUT in comparrison to the new GForce FX cards <except on a lower resolution> the ATI cards rip up. Anyway...... My advice to you is by small. Me I brought a GForce 4 Ti 4200. It was clocked at GPU = 250 and RAM clocked at 513 <I think>. I can EASILY overclock it to GPU=300, RAM=600. This causes no artifacts and puts no extra stress on my box. conclusion. If you WANT to overclock by the higest RAM card with lowest GPU/RAM BUT use the latest generation card. In MOST cases yu can overclock the card and like me save 400 bucks <My 4200 is almost at the same specs of the 4600>. Overclock my friend and save alot of money B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superunknown Posted October 17, 2003 Author Share Posted October 17, 2003 My advice to you is by small. Me I brought a GForce 4 Ti 4200. It was clocked at GPU = 250 and RAM clocked at 513 <I think>. I can EASILY overclock it to GPU=300, RAM=600. This causes no artifacts and puts no extra stress on my box. conclusion. If you WANT to overclock by the higest RAM card with lowest GPU/RAM BUT use the latest generation card. In MOST cases yu can overclock the card and like me save 400 bucks <My 4200 is almost at the same specs of the 4600>. Overclock my friend and save alot of money B) I would probably do something like that, but the whole reason im switching cards is because my Geforce fx 5200 doesnt seem to work with halo, which I REALLY want to play, and I know its the vieo card becaus I tried switching it with a worse ATI (7000 or something) and the game actually ran better. Ive asked about it on the some halo forums and they suggested switching to Radeon 9800 nonpro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeLLL Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 Can you pst the following details: Nvidia driver version System specs <basic> EXACTLY what problems you where having with halo Halo version Cheers Buddy HeLLL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superunknown Posted October 17, 2003 Author Share Posted October 17, 2003 Ive got the fresh instal of the driver with a windows XP/2000 patch (version 45.23) that I downloaded from their site. Windows XPAMD Athlon XP 2600+1536MB RAMSoundblaster Audigyif you need any other specs ask me Problems: When I first started playing the game, it was running sluggishly. I wasnt that suprised, since I hadnt restarted or defraged after installing the game. I was able to make the first level run at a playable speed by turning all of the video settings down to minimal, dispite the default setting it suggested of having everything on. On the second level (Where you crashland on Halo) even on the lowest settings the game ran at an unplayable pace. The only time the fps was good enough to actually be able to play is when I was looking at the ground or the sky. After giving up on the main game, I tried playing multiplayer. Multiplayer ran suprisingly better that single player, but still slower than I would expect for my system. I then tried restarting my computer and defraging, but that did nothing at all. Halo version: 1.02 Incase you want to know these are the system requirements for Halo:Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP - 128 MB RAM733 MHz processor1.2g harddrive32 MB/3D T&L Capable8x CD Drive, Soundcard, speakers/headphones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeLLL Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 What version drivers are you using for the soundcard. And can you list ALL your hardware please buddy? Also do you have "Fast write" enabled? HeLLL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superunknown Posted October 17, 2003 Author Share Posted October 17, 2003 sry here: -Soundcard version is 5.12.0001.0253. Ive downloaded the most recend drivers from their site.-Motherboard: ASUS A7V8X. Gotten the latest updates for that as well.-Memory company is PNY-120 gig Maxtor hd-lynksys ethernet card (network connection)-48x TDK cdrom burner (which I run Halo from)-52x Creative cdrom How do you check to see if fast write is enabled? Ive tried looking in device manager and the BIOs setup but I couldnt find it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeLLL Posted October 23, 2003 Share Posted October 23, 2003 Sorry for lack of reply here goes. 1: Right Click on Desktop and choose properties. 2: Click on the tab "Seetings" 3: Click on "Troubleshooting". And presto it will <if you use XP> be at the bottom of the window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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