FX or Radeon?
 

Im thinking about building a computer and i wanted to put in a really good graphics card. Which do u suggest, a Geforce FX, Geforce TI 4800 256mb, or Radeon 9600 256mb? Ive heard that the FX has its problems, i dont know if thats true or not.

9600.

radeon 9700 pro.

Stay away from Nvidia. They've been going way down hill.

Get the Radeon 9600.

Yea ive been hearing about that. So i can get a Radeon 9600 256mb card for $136. Thats a good price right?

Yep thats about right. Newegg has it at $137 for the 256MB 9600 non-pro.

yea im not getting pro. I dont see the point in buying pro?

It's just clocked higher.

never buy top of the line. always buy whats reasonable. if you buy whats top of the line right now you just waste alot of money, wait for it to drop in price.

I have a P4 1.5 Ghz with 768 Rambus,if I buy that card would make any difference ?

[quote="Bean 2":2f87c]yea im not getting pro. I dont see the point in buying pro?[/quote:2f87c]

Because its faster.

You would be bettor off gettng the 9500pro, which should be in teh same price range.

n00bs

Just buy a Radeon 9500 PRO and flash the eeprom with the 9800 PRO bios
and you will get the same performance for half the price tag.

hake:

Sure thats not the non pro version? I have a 9500 pro and was told on forums its the non pro version this can be done on.

id go for the 6900

Im sorry. The 9600 for $136 is the pro version.

get my card..Radeon 9800 pro 256, it kicks major ass :). 500fps all the time

I would stick with Nvida all the way .. Go for the radeon but only if you plan on getting the 9800 pro. If you plan on staying midd range get a ti4600 or something check http://www.GoogleGear.com great prices even better service and 2 DAY shipping for only 50 cents.. Ordered from there MANY MANY times no problems at all

Oh, and I wouldn't bother with getting a 256MB card. It's just a waste of money. No current games or near future games will use 256MB of graphic memory. Even Doom 3 will only use 90MB. You may get a few extra FPS but it's not worth the $100-200 extra.