Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Vs 9600

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One quick question

Which is better: A Gigabyte Radeon 9600 (128mb)
or a : Radeon 9600 (256mb)


Im a little confused

thanks

J
 
hilly22 said:
One quick question

Which is better: A Gigabyte Radeon 9600 (128mb)
or a : Radeon 9600 (256mb)
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Games which require 256mb will definitely require a more powerful card than
a "mere" Radeon 9600 Pro. So it's a waste of money going for the 256mb
version.

=- Brian Dickens, the Netherlands
 
hilly22 said:
One quick question

Which is better: A Gigabyte Radeon 9600 (128mb)
or a : Radeon 9600 (256mb)


Im a little confused

thanks

J
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Check the speed of the RAM - some 256mb graphics cards use slower RAM. a
Standard 9600 I think has 200Mhz DDR RAM (400Mhz effective). 9600Pro's
and XT's have 300Mhz DDR (600Mhz effective). I know that some 9600Pros
with 256mb have slower 200Mhz RAM though so you lose out.

A 300Mhz DDR 128Mb card is much better than a 200Mhz DDR 256Mb card.

Having said that - a 9800 Pro with 128Mb is much better than a 9600 Pro
or XT with 256Mb so it really depends how you want to spend your money
and what sort of games you want to play.

Basically at the 9600 level there is not really much need to have 256Mb
- but if its the same price as a 128 and the same speed then it can't hurt.
 
I got a 9600 pro, a gigabyte one at that i got 128mb of memory, but i bought
the cheap passively cooled one, and the memorys is clocked slower that the
Pro spec(200 not 300) :(

Anyway if you can stretch your budget, get a Nvidia Geforce 6200 with 128mb,
its not that much more, and if i remember my figures right, it performs alot
better than a 9600 pro does, if you can afford it, make sure that
A. you get an AGP version
B. its a 128 bit(not MB, bit - this refers to the size/width of the memory
interface, not the amount of memory).

Anyways good luck
 
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