[mrp (old)]

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I have one more question too...I saw there`s for instance a Sapphire Radeon 9600 256MB and a Club3D Radeon 9600 256MB? what`s the difference??

I hope you can help me with taking the choise!

_No Where To Run_
_iCeCold_

Different companies taking advantage of the same chipset .. the speeds of each shouldn't greatly vary.. altho u might b better off paying that bit extra for the 9600XT if u decide that card ;x

tho personally im no expert

[Muffie]

Go for a chaintech geforce fx5700 about 150 american dollars i'd buy one but my mobo doesnt support 4x or 8x agp, grrr i can't wait to buy my new setup.

[audioaxes (old)]

the memory size isnt the only factor in a card dude

256 MB in a 100euro [not exactly sure how much that translates to US$] card aint gonna do nothin; the bandwidth, pipes, and clock speeds of a card in that range will bottleneck that extra memory obsolete

a 128MB card would do just fine, however my knowledge is pretty limited in this price range so i cannot give the best specific suggestion

[Oswald (old)]

anything that does not have the letters A-T-I on it.

[mrp (old)]

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anything that does not have the letters A-T-I on it.

still looking for that nvidia sponsorship?

[rashly (old)]

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anything that does not have the letters A-T-I on it.

lol, the alternative is better with static clipping planes, brilinear filtering, lowered precision (fx12 or fp16 when the app asks for full precision), sub par ps20 performance (compared to ati), high noise, high power requirements, crappy aa, and lieing pr reps?

man, please. the only things the last generation nvidia gpus had over ati were linux support, 3d glasses support, and af quality (not performance). thank god the nv40 is closer to the r420 than the nv3x was to the r3x0 so we could start to see some competition.

put fanboyism aside when recommending a purchase.

[L3mMinG (old)]

If you only got that much money to spare I would go for an fx5700 something. The ati cards generally perform better and nicer for directX but on most benchmarks the nvidia's come out way better for quake3's engine (openGL).

I got a geforce3ti200 and capped at 85 it doesn't drop below this almost ever, this is a different story in Enemy Territory, but oswald is probably right to play urban terror, ati is not ideal. The skybox is a bit messy and what it gains in 'niceness' will just go to waist as you're chasing through the maps mostly looking at your crosshair.