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"128MB or 256MB Radeon 9600"

I am getting a new graphics card and the place I am getting it from has a 128MB and a 256MB Radeon 9600. The 256MB card is only £8 more expensive but I was thinking why is there only £8 difference? have they left something off the 256MB card or what? Any advice would be much appreciated.

adrian wrote:

> "9600 Pro deals with Halflife 2 pretty well and can run it at a decent
> resolution and at a nice framerate. Doom 3 should be ok as well.
> Depending on the rest of your system you should be able to play these
> very well on 800x600, and then okish on 1024x768."

Well I strongly protest im not playing any PC game at less than 1280x1024... and thats final.

*Goes to further overclock radeon 9600 (non pro)

Athlon 64s dont come in 3Ghz yet, there something like 2.2Ghz, but are comparable to 3Ghz P4, so thats why they are 3000 64 or 3200 64.

If you getting a Althon 64 why not get a better graphics card? Obviously you have a nice bit of cash being pumped into the system so why not pump in another £100 or so and get a 9800 Pro or XT?

well im getting a custom built hog this month built on a gigabyte pro m-board. It'l have the 9600 radeon, 3gig ahtlon 64 cpu and 1024 ddr ram. i'm hoping i won't have to update that for a good few months.

Muss The Halfwit wrote:
> Anybody know how big a difference theres is between the 9600's and the
> 9800's?

Yes big differences. Speed on both the CPU and memory is faster, plus the 9800's have double the pipelines. So what does this mean over twice the performance, sometimes 3x the performance in some situations. Don't forget a 9800 Pro is probably 3x the price of a 9600, so for the money difference you need to expect a lot of differences in the performance of the 2 chipsets.

> Also i'm hoping that HL2 and Doom3 will look like liquid sex on my pc
> with my 9600.

9600 Pro deals with Halflife 2 pretty well and can run it at a decent resolution and at a nice framerate. Doom 3 should be ok as well. Depending on the rest of your system you should be able to play these very well on 800x600, and then okish on 1024x768.

Yeah that's a decent enough card, more than enough to do graphical animation at uni.

Anybody know how big a difference theres is between the 9600's and the 9800's?

I just bought a new custom built pc coz im gonna be doing graphical animation at Uni, and i'll be needing a decent card. The pcs also coming with a 9600 radeon 256, which is..... nice :)

Also i'm hoping that HL2 and Doom3 will look like liquid sex on my pc with my 9600.

It'll be obselete before games start taking advantage of 256megs of video memory.

Chad Niga wrote:
> Go for the better version.
>
> Just think, it will last longer than the 128mb, someday games may
> need more than 128mb to run. and on that day you will be glad you
> bourght it.

I agree

Go for the better version.

Just think, it will last longer than the 128mb, someday games may need more than 128mb to run. and on that day you will be glad you bourght it.

Radeon 9800?