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We Live For The One We Die For The One
I bought a 9600 Pro, should have waited a while and got a 9800 Pro.
The only Video card worth buying the 9800 Pro what do you think ?
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Ben Pope
We said:
The question you asked:
Q: "9600 Pro Vs 9800 Pro how much faster would i notice the difference ?"
The two responses that were relevant:
A: "You would notice the difference right away."
A: "As you can see... 9600Pro = 50fps vs 90fps on the 9800Pro... yeah, you'd
notice."
Your response... buying a 9600 Pro.
Two options:
1) Stick with it, it's an excellent card.
2) Check eBay for price of completed auctions of same card, subtract from
price of new 9800 Pro, save up this amount, sell the 9600 pro on eBay and go
shopping.
Ben
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+CrimsonLiar
We Live For The One We Die For The One said:
And if you'd waited you'd probably have decided you shoulda waited for
something else instead. Look on the bright side of this, you bought a vid
card that has class leading price
erformance ratio, few 9800pro buyers cansay the same.
+CrimsonLiar
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Ben Pope
+CrimsonLiar said:And if you'd waited you'd probably have decided you shoulda waited for
something else instead. Look on the bright side of this, you bought a vid
card that has class leading price
can say the same.
An excellent point well made. My 9800 Pro was expensive. It's nice, but
expensive.
And the 9600 Pro will still play just about every game currently out there,
if it struggles, drop the resolution and up the AA.
Ben
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John Russell
Upgrading depends upon what you have now. If your old card card was old, sayWe Live For The One We Die For The One said:
a TNT, then you going to go WOW no matter the card you get. If your card
isn't that old, say a GF4, then things get problamatic. Both Nvidia's and
ATI initial medium range DX9 cards may well have been faster than the GF4 at
dx9, but where noticebly slower in dx8. To my mind only the latest 9600xt
means you could buy a medium range card and not lose DX8 performance (along
with the Nvidia 5700ultra).
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Tim Wisner
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JAD
Dear We,
I have a P2 333 with a AGP X2 slot, I play centipede and PAC man. I will be getting a 9800 pro cause its the only card to buy....
live for the minute die by the expense
I have a P2 333 with a AGP X2 slot, I play centipede and PAC man. I will be getting a 9800 pro cause its the only card to buy....
live for the minute die by the expense
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Wblane
I'd say exactly the opposite. At 1024x768 I noticed NO difference between my
overclocked 9500 Pro and my 9800 Pro aside from benchmarks. MDK2 went up from
217 FPS to 239 FPS. Quake II went from 374.5 to 468.5. Undying changed by one
whole FPS. I can now run games in 1280x1024 though. This is on a Barton, NF7-s
v2.0 2330Mhz.
-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)
overclocked 9500 Pro and my 9800 Pro aside from benchmarks. MDK2 went up from
217 FPS to 239 FPS. Quake II went from 374.5 to 468.5. Undying changed by one
whole FPS. I can now run games in 1280x1024 though. This is on a Barton, NF7-s
v2.0 2330Mhz.
-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)
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Ben Pope
Wblane said:
Well if you're running such old games I'm not surprised.
Graphics cards aren't only there to give you FPS but a graphical experience
and you won't be using any of the new graphical techniques to render Quake
II now will you? Does it even have coloured lighting?
Ben
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We Live For The One We Die For The One
Not sure if it would do anything for your pc ???, need atleast a 2ghz
cpu for it do do any good right ?
cpu for it do do any good right ?
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Wblane
These are the only games I benchmark with. Of the current games I play:
BloodRayne, May Payne2, Unreal2, C&C Generals:Zero Hour I perceive no
difference in performance between my overclocked 9500 Pro and 9800 Pro at
1024x768.
-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)
BloodRayne, May Payne2, Unreal2, C&C Generals:Zero Hour I perceive no
difference in performance between my overclocked 9500 Pro and 9800 Pro at
1024x768.
-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)