What's better ?

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Leonardo Broseghini

Anybody has benchmarks about different ATI card ? 9600 is better of 9250 (i
think), but how much better ?
I have to upgrade, and I want to know how to spend my money.

Thank you, Leo
 
On average, it's 53.45% better in 87.26% of the applications out there...

Seriously, go to TomsHardware.Com and search for "VGA charts".
 
First of One said:
On average, it's 53.45% better in 87.26% of the applications out there...

Seriously, go to TomsHardware.Com and search for "VGA charts".
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Be mighty careful with Toms Hardware. While the site is amusing, and there
is some knowledge to be gained from it, they are exceedingly BAD at doing
unbiased, accurate reviews.

When I got my first AIW card, the 8500dv, then just called the 8500 AIW, the
software was so buggy I decided to look around the 'net to see if I was
doing something wrong. There it was, a review for this very card on Toms
Hardware. They slobbered all over this thing, heaping praise upon praise
about it's every virtue. No mention of buggy drivers or severely
unrealistic system requirements, which my system exceeded by a very wide
margin. Later, as other folks went about reviewing this card, I found it
was indeed the drivers, and not some obscure mistake on my part, that made
this card practically unusable for anything other than a standard video
card, at least until several driver versions and a huge upgrade later.

It turns out Toms Hardware has this reputation elsewhere. So, while I still
occasionally visit their site, I NEVER place any trust in their reviews.
They're best at watching new products, much like Popular Science's What's
New section.

Pagan
 
Leonardo Broseghini said:
Anybody has benchmarks about different ATI card ? 9600 is better of 9250 (i
think), but how much better ?
I have to upgrade, and I want to know how to spend my money.
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I have the 9600xt AIW, and while you didn't mention wanting an AIW, it's
pretty much the same as the 9600xt. You really can't go wrong buying this
card. It'll play Half Life 2 and Doom 3 very well, assuming the rest of
your system is up to snuff. You won't get all of the fancy eye candy, but
you'll be impressed regardless.

Pagan
 
I also have a 9600XT. I'll agree it does a decent job with HL2 (I run at
1024x768 2xAA 2xAF), it really struggles with Doom3, barely running it at
1024x768 with no AA or AF. It not getting over 30 fps at that setting.

DaveL
 
DaveL said:
I also have a 9600XT. I'll agree it does a decent job with HL2 (I run at
1024x768 2xAA 2xAF), it really struggles with Doom3, barely running it at
1024x768 with no AA or AF. It not getting over 30 fps at that setting.
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When I get around to reinstalling these two, I'll have to fiddle with the
video some more.

With both games, I went with a lower resolution, and turned off AA. Since
then I've done some upgrading on everything else, so we'll see.

With Doom 3, I certainly went with lower settings, and it looked good and
played pretty well. That was with a 2100XP and 512mb. I'm itching to try
it with a 3100 Sempron and 1 gig.

Pagan
 
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