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Subject: ATI RADEON 9600XT
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What is the difference between the 9600XT 128mb and the 9600XT 256mb? Is there a noticeable difference in the quality of these two cards? Thanks for your help!

  • 11.26.2004 6:24 PM PDT
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There would be a slight difference yes. Not worth paying a huge amount extra for but if the difference in price is small, get the 256Mb.

  • 11.26.2004 6:34 PM PDT
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Get the 256mb version. If you can afford it, try getting the 9800XT 256.

  • 11.26.2004 6:45 PM PDT
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or if you have uber money go get an x800 xt, :) Savage Graphics card

  • 11.26.2004 6:46 PM PDT

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personally, i have to recommend Nvidia, compatibility is my bottom line, and Nvidia has it, speciall since i love older games too, and if you got nuff to get a radeon x800, then get the GeForce 6800 GT 256MB card, great performance for an awsome price, friend of mine got it, returned his Radeon 9800 when it wouldn't run some WIN 95 classics we still play on his LAN.

  • 11.26.2004 7:31 PM PDT
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ATi pwned nVidia in recent Half-Life 2 benchmarks despite them claiming to have better shader support. I'm never had a game not run on my 9800XT, and I've played stuff as old as worms 1, tombraider and all those early stuff. The X800XT is a lot more powerful than the 6800Ultra and is the same price, ish. Also ATi cooling fans are small enough to fit in just one computer case, unlike nVidia's which you'll need a spare room or atic conversion to find space for. Maybe a double-garage.

  • 11.26.2004 7:49 PM PDT
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Heyyo,

rofl, pwned by skippy. ;)

Yeah, remember though skippy, HL2's ATI optimized, so you can't really use that game for benchmarking purposes, you have to use a game with a fair playing field, like HaloPC, and Far Cry. Both, you'll notice that ATI wins. Optimized shaders kick ass. It's like Intel and AMD. AMD has much more optimizations, so that's why their lower clock speeds still whup Intel. ;)

I say, btw, to the dude looking for that videocard? get a 128MB version, the preformance difference will be nothing major, and once games that are 256MB videocard optimized? you'll probably want a stronger videocard by them.

I also havn't had any probs old skool games not working on my comp... insept for ones that Windows xp won't run. Err... btw, your bud's on Windows 95? maybe that's the prob... lol, get at least windows 98. 98 will run newer games AND oldergames just fine. Or? if you're poor, download Fedora Redhat Linux. Free software OS. Linux also is much more efficient than Windows XP. Like, games will run faster cause it's optimized, kindof like the xbox. ;)

Optimizations man, they make a world of difference in the gaming world.

  • 11.27.2004 12:22 AM PDT