Radeon 9600 Pro vs. Radeon 9800 Pro?

Ghost-Dog · May 25, 2004

I'm building a new gaming desktop. I've kind of narrowed it down between two video cards, a Radeon 9600 Pro 256MB and a Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB. The 9600 is about $50 cheaper, and has more onboard memory, so I was going to go with that.

This will be going into an ECS Mobo w/400mhz FSB, Athlon XP 3000+ and 2x 512MB DDR 400mhz running in dual channel mode for a gigabyte of RAM total. So what do you guys think?

Chicago Cheeseburgler Crew · May 25, 2004

All I know is the 9800 pro rocks. BUTTROK! :buttrock:

Phoenix Down · May 25, 2004

I've never used the 9600 version but I've been using the 9800 Pro 128 MB for about a year and I love it. Highly recommended.

Moob Butter · May 25, 2004

NickD · May 25, 2004

The computer and the video card is too slow for today's and upcoming games... I'm not even kidding.

I have a PIV 2.8 1 Gig RAM & Radeon 9800 Pro, guess what... Far Cry doesn't run smoothly with AA on. Hitman Contracts the same.

But if it's a money question, then I would check out Tom's Hardware too.

Tony_N · May 25, 2004

I would seriously wait for the new ATi X800s or GeForce 6800s and buy one of those.

Ghost-Dog · May 25, 2004

Tony_N said:
I would seriously wait for the new ATi X800s or GeForce 6800s and buy one of those.

I am looking at these cards because I am on a budget. I can't afford one of those new cards at this time, so I'm looking in the $150 range. Maybe after 6 months I'll be able to drop $400 for a video card, but until then I need one that will play HL2, Doom 3 and Farcry passably. I don't need 2 or 4x anti-aliasing or anything.

I guess what I'm wondering is, is it better to have more on-board RAM on the card or a better chipset?

Tony_N · May 25, 2004

Ghost-Dog said:
I am looking at these cards because I am on a budget. I can't afford one of those new cards at this time, so I'm looking in the $150 range. Maybe after 6 months I'll be able to drop $400 for a video card, but until then I need one that will play HL2, Doom 3 and Farcry passably. I don't need 2 or 4x anti-aliasing or anything.

I guess what I'm wondering is, is it better to have more on-board RAM on the card or a better chipset?

Yeah they probably have high launch prices..

Remember that there's also a possibility that when the new cards are fully released, these current ones will have major price drops, especially the 9800XT..

I've heard that it really doesn't matter if you have 9600 Pro 128mb or 9600 Pro 256mb, the 256mb is a little overkill for 9600 Pro and they perform the same.

I'd say better chipset.

Atro · May 25, 2004

madmanjock said:

Exactly.

www.sharkyextreme.com is also a great site to take in cosideration for this kind of hardware doubts.

Moob Butter · May 26, 2004

I have a 9500 np, but I've managed to o/c it to get 38000, prob shorting the life of the card but do I give a fuck? When it dies I'll get a nvidia 6800... all your cards are belong to us :

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