P650 or ATI 9x00 ?

[Novdid]

My bad...

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Originally posted by raku
don't you even think about taking fx5200! that would be a very dumb decision. i don't know what benchmarks you have been looking, but i'll give you a digit-life review of sapphire family. there are radeon 9200, 9600, fx5200 64bit, fx5200 128bit etc benchmarked. fx5200 non-ultra is the worst card ever, considering the fact that it's being sold as a directx9 part of fx-family. serious rip-off. you should get a p650, but if you want to ditch Matrox then go with ATi :| Nvidia - never!

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...apphire-2.html

for your information, not all 5200 non-ultra uses 64bit memory bus. The ones that use the 64bit bus are those crappy low profile single heads card... like the Asus AGP-V9520 Magic. The AGP-V9520 TD and AGP V9520 Video Suite, which are also based on the vanilla GFFX5200, use a 128bit memory inerface. 128bit 5200s have performance close to R9000, which is a nice alternative, considering it has DX9 and sometimes even cheaper than a 9000. Don't know why Asus do not launch a 5200 Ultra product, but technically, I think all GFFX 5200 can do 128bit, its just a matter of manufecteurer's implentation. For home user/casual gamers, 5200 is quite a nice solution for its price. (not everything will pay 300 dollars for a GFX card)

[thop]

i went for a passive radeon 9600

[Chrono_Wanderer]

congrats thop! Passive noiceless goodness

btw: nice sig

[diewlei]

Originally posted by thop
i went for a passive radeon 9600

great. which brand / model is it btw?

[thop]

Connect3D 128MB 9600 ... paid 123€. VGA IQ is horrible ... but DVI is just excellent Overall i'm very satisfied.

[Indiana]

If you're in need of an ATI forum:

https://www.atinews.de

[thop]

I let the Reef Demo run today ... runs smooth like silk I was suprised it is so short and only lets you choose 1024x768 (or 2400x600).

[Indiana]

Did you try nVidias Dawn Demo already. I was a bit surprised about how short it is as well..

Or try the Natural Lighting Demo, the Animusic Demo, the non photorealistic rendering demo and the Chimp demo from ATI - all of them are quite neat.

[thop]

Dawn crashes here as soon as i click the exe ... must be sth. with my system. I did use the wrapper of course.

[Indiana]

Do you have the newest Catalyst 3.4 installed? It should work.

[thop]

Yep i don't think it is driver related or sth. like that ... it crashes 1 ms after i click on it. Oh well can't have everything in life