ATi Radeon 9700 128MB?

[Zephyr]

anyone have this graphics card? how is it, good performance? good quality? any features? i'm looking at new upgrades so just asking around

[rage2]

hehe I have it on my game machine, it's awesome. Play games at 1600x1200 .

[Zephyr]

Originally posted by rage2
hehe I have it on my game machine, it's awesome. Play games at 1600x1200 .

wut processor do u have?

[kevie88]

It Rules. I can't say enough about that card... 13,000 on 3dmark2001 with no tweaking!! Me like!

[Davetronz]

I have installed a few of them, down right amazing if you ask me.

[rage2]

I'm on a P4 2.8Ghz

[Ben]

Pretty hard to beat that card!

[redline]

it kicks ass!

the directx 9 drivers are pretty good now. Just like any ATI card the first 6 months = crappy drivers. I have the odd small problem that is driver related but not too many any more.

[redline]

Originally posted by kevie88
It Rules. I can't say enough about that card... 13,000 on 3dmark2001 with no tweaking!! Me like!

run the test with the 03 benchmarks and this cards really rocks the any other card

[MerfBall]

Even then you won't truly realize the power of a 9700 until you play a DirectX 9 game. Just simply amazing.

[Dope Dealer]

It's too bad Doom III and Half Life 2 are still a while away. These games would truly take advantage of every feature since they were both developed using this card, and GeForce 5.

Radeon seems to be making better cards than nVidia now though. Should be interesting.

[Zephyr]

cuz i heard soemthing about nevida being better...

[kenny]

Nvidia marketing may be better and their "future" products might be better as well but currently, ATI is the market leader in terms of performance. Of course, every 3 weeks something new is about to come out and will steal the performance crown.

[Stratus_Power]

Originally posted by Dope Dealer
It's too bad Doom III and Half Life 2 are still a while away. These games would truly take advantage of every feature since they were both developed using this card, and GeForce 5.

Radeon seems to be making better cards than nVidia now though. Should be interesting.

rurmor is that Half life 2 is coming out before the end of this year.
but yeh new video card comes up so damn fast its not even funny.
the new Radeon 9800 is pretty insane..
but im currently consideringly an ATI All-in-wonder 9700 pro myself

[Toms-Celica]

Im going to stick with Nvida, call me brand bias but I've installed 3 of those cards and mattering on what games you play they have had power problems or heat problems. Running off of a new Dell...

[Zephyr]

Originally posted by Stratus_Power


rurmor is that Half life 2 is coming out before the end of this year.

i dunno it just said half life 2 in it and was about sars too so i thought i post it

i'm trying to build a faster comp, i dunno wut processor speed to go with, and i'm scared 3 months later it willl be horribly cheaper than i paid for...

[EstoMax]

zephyr get a tbred 2100+ and an nforce 2 based motherboard with 512 corsair XMS pc3200. my friend has this setup he overclocked to 2.4ghz(1.73 stock) and runs a ti4200, he gets 13,300 3dmark2001 score
the xp2100 is 78 bux or u can get xp2500 barton(has more l2 cache, which speeds up everything a bit but doesnt overclock as well)
abit nf-7 is one of the best overclockers for nforce 2 boards, they cost 104-126 bux, depending what config u get
corsair xms3200c2 is 119 bux
all these prices taken from www.newegg.com and their in US dollars
just make sure u get a nice heatsink/fan combo(suggest slk800/900 with ~50 cfm fan) or watercool (thats what my friend has, its the best performance/quietness u can get, but a good watercooling setup will run u around 120 bucks)




max

[Zephyr]

Originally posted by Lt. Max
zephyr get a tbred 2100+ and an nforce 2 based motherboard with 512 corsair XMS pc3200. my friend has this setup he overclocked to 2.4ghz(1.73 stock) and runs a ti4200, he gets 13,300 3dmark2001 score
the xp2100 is 78 bux or u can get xp2500 barton(has more l2 cache, which speeds up everything a bit but doesnt overclock as well)
abit nf-7 is one of the best overclockers for nforce 2 boards, they cost 104-126 bux, depending what config u get
corsair xms3200c2 is 119 bux
all these prices taken from www.newegg.com and their in US dollars
just make sure u get a nice heatsink/fan combo(suggest slk800/900 with ~50 cfm fan) or watercool (thats what my friend has, its the best performance/quietness u can get, but a good watercooling setup will run u around 120 bucks)




max

woah woah, water cooling system, i'm just trying to get a fast comp not race it cool setup recommendation, but i'm looking for a fast comp with a small budget around 900 USD

[EstoMax]

that will all b there with 900 and less
i just built my friend a 900 dollar computer , although aircooled

max

edit: do u have msn/aol or smth?
i can help u put together the best thing u can get from newegg, although ur in cali and u havta pay some tax cause newegg is there

edit: log onto ur msn msnger i added u

[rage2]

I used to be a hardcore overclocker. No more of that, CPUs are cheap enough these days so you can buy fast and reliable. I just built a P4 2.66ghz, Radeon 9700 Pro, 512mb ddr ram, DVD Rom, basically the works. $1400cdn. That's like $900usd. Dirt cheap.

I had an Athlon XP system, but it ran into a few problems with my video editing software. I gave that system to gage, he seems to have no problems with it. It wasn't the fastest system, but it was a hundred bucks or so cheaper. I say stay with Intel, the price difference is so minor, you'd rather have a stable chipset/CPU combo.

As for NVIDIA, they're good at marketing, but they've always had inferior products, where the performance didn't match benchmarks. A year ago, NVIDIA was top because they killed off 3dfx and was the only company left to produce gaming video cards. Now that ATI has gotten their act together, NVIDIA's gotta ramp up their marketing again!