Aelfric Fey Necurat Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 My budget can't go above 250$ and would looking for a nice new video card...any ideas on what i should get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 Ok, the obvious questions: What video card do you have right now? Other hardware? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohGr Posted December 28, 2003 Share Posted December 28, 2003 well, if i were you, i would get a....ATI Radeon 9600, i know someone who just got one for $260 (australian dollars), he had no lag in a single game he owns, even morrowind. either that, or get something cheaper, like a geforce 3 ti500, the best in the geforce 3 series, and it easily outperforms the geforce 4 mx series....but it has the pixel shaders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aelfric Fey Necurat Posted December 28, 2003 Author Share Posted December 28, 2003 I have a Geforce 2 right now...isn't the Radeon 9600's core really unstable??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohGr Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 thats the drivers, the new catalist drivers are unstable, the previous ones run better, and run morrowind smoothly apparently, although, recent research shows that on laptops the new radeon 9200?? outperforms the geforce fx5200go on morrowind by 10fps at 1024x768...unfortunantly...it has no Direct-X 9 support...no reflective (pixel shaded) waters. but, you could just go with a geforce 3ti500 or a geforce4 ti4200...or...but be warned, the drivers are terrible as i have a video card by the same company, but worse, a SiS Xabre 600....it outperforms a geforce 4 mx easily...and its insanely cheap...but the drivers.....shudder... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaiv Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 The Sapphire/Atlantis ATI Radeon 9600 Pro. It is 256 MB, like the $500 NVidia GeForce FX 5950, except I just got mine for $130 from pricewatch.com. Check here for the cheapest prices available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark0ne Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 The new Radeon series are far surpassing the GeForce FX cards - the FX have been EXTREMELY disappoining. My recommendation would be to go with a pretty new Radeon, couldn't give you up-to-date info since I'm still using my trusty, reliable, Geforce Ti4200 which hasn't let me down yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aelfric Fey Necurat Posted December 29, 2003 Author Share Posted December 29, 2003 Ohhh thx Slaiv. I will definatly be buying the Radeon 9600...I currently have the Geforce 2, but thats not working for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaiv Posted January 1, 2004 Share Posted January 1, 2004 welcome :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faust870 Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 We just bought a Radeon 9200, it works wonders... So thats what i recommend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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