TI4200 or 8500LE

[mdhome]

Unfortunately I cant wait for or afford the Parhelia so its a tossup between the ATI 8500le (£99) or a SIluro TI4200 (£135). Does anyone have experience of these?


Regards Michael

[Wombat]

I wouldn't get the Siluro. Asus does a really bad job with IQ on their video cards. Gainward, Visiontek, some others have much better visual quality.

[GT98]

Hey if you want an Radeon 8500 Retail for a good deal, PM me or Email me and we can talk

[bsdgeek]

I wouldn't get the Siluro. Asus does a really bad job with IQ on their video cards. Gainward, Visiontek, some others have much better visual quality.

ABIT makes Siluro, but I doubt that makes much a difference since most people, here at least, don't like ABIT.

[Wombat]

Oh, Abit. I get their video cards confused. Still, they both have bad IQ histories.

[bsdgeek]

Yeah they certainly do.

[Parhelia Pro256]

<i>"Unfortunately I cant wait for or afford the Parhelia "</i>

[2Whyzzi]

Personally I'd go with 8500, but I really insist that you dig into the features of each card before making your decision if you can't wait for the Parhelia.

Good luck with whatever you choose,

[az]

c't says that the visionteks are the only GF4's with acceptable image quality

AZ

[The_King]

Re: TI4200 or 8500LE

Originally posted by mdhome
Unfortunately I cant wait for or afford the Parhelia...

Why, how much do they cost?? I haven't heard anything about price yet except for the assumptions .

[Marshmallowman]

what about colour saturation.
The Gf's I have seen, still seem to have somewhat bleached colours but the crispness is better.

The ati 8500le I have seen seemed to have good colour satutration and a reasonably crisp display.

I really miss the colour saturation and contrast of my old g200, but alas the parhelia is just a spark on the horizon for my wallet, it will be a 8500 or 4200 for me as well (128 mb version)

anyone heard of an Auriga 8500, they have a model with 128m of mem and 275/275 clocks that is quite inexpensive?

[bsdgeek]

On Newegg they have an ATI Original 8500 128M (275/275) for $162 USD.

[The PIT]

I've got an 8500 and it isn't bad. If you get one I suggest you use the Omega/Cyborg drivers as they're pretty good. I'm using ATI's catalyst drivers now under 98. The only prob with them is that they've bogged up the fonts under Fifa 2001 football manager.
I'm waiting for Omega and co to release there new drivers and then I'll switch back.

[Indiana]

Pro GF4 Ti4200: Slightly faster, more compatible and still better overall drivers. MUCH better FSAA performance.

Pro R8500: Better display-quality, better TVOut, better DualMonitor capabilities (IMHO). MUCH better anisotropic filtering performance. Better FSAA quality IMO, but at a major speed hit. Better DVD video-playback capabilities.

So I guess it depends on what you're planning to do. If you want the most hassle free game operations and care about FSAA, get the GF4.
However if you want to use anisotropic filtering or are spoiled by Matrox' 2D quality then get the Radeon. (Be aware that neither the R8500 nor the GF4200 will give you 2D quality comparable to a G400, though).


In my case it was an easy choice: I want a good TV-Out and am extensively doing desktop video. And I prefer ultra-high resolutions with anisotropic filtering to lower-res FSAA.
So of course I got the Radeon.