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iam starting to build a pc and ive got most parts for it, but now i've got to get a graphics card. I've narrowed it down to an ATI Radeon 9600xt but i don't know if i should get the 128mb or the 256 one? Is there a huge amount of difference?

iam starting to build a pc and ive got most parts for it, but now i've got to get a graphics card. I've narrowed it down to an ATI Radeon 9600xt but i don't know if i should get the 128mb or the 256 one? Is there a huge amount of difference?

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Go for the 128mb version the 256 isnt really worth the money as the perfomance boost isnt really worth it.This time next year your radeon 9600xt will be worthless, so I would advise you to do what I did - get a cheap graphics cards in the meantime and wait for the kick ass graphics cards getting released next year in time for Half Life 2 and Doom.

Eg: I paid £68 for my Radeon 9600 and Ive over clocked it to Pro speeds...

cheers, thats a great help

yeah go for the 128mb one instead...

Depends on the price. If the 256mb model is only £10 more then get that. Even if its £20 more still get the 256mb. Games at the moment dont really need it and if you have enough system RAM you might not notice the difference. Max Payne 2 has anti aliasing in its settings and when using this will everything set to max it does come back and complain there is only 128mb of video RAM when it needs 140mb. Anti-aliasing can be set on the system itself so theres no worry there. You really should go and get the best you can afford and if theres only a few £'s difference get the 256mb model.

just another question about Radeons. Ive seen some 9800SEs and they are very cheap, but is it worth getting that or the 9600xt? The most I willing to part with is £150-ish. I have heard that special editions are a bit poo so has anyone got any advice?

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Why bump a topic that you posted in 9 minutes ago ? Its not like the topics going to move out of the top few topics.

Anyway the 9800SE is pretty low power so a 9600XT might be a better buy. Without looking at a spec for spec comparison, or looking at how they compare with each other in games its hard to say which one is the better.

adrian wrote:
> Why bump a topic that you posted in 9 minutes ago ? Its not like the
> topics going to move out of the top few topics.

I read that as 9 months then.

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