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24-11-2002
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| CD Freaks Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hiding in DaTaxMan's house (you wont find me, Tax!) HINT* Look in the wine cellar
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| Need advice on video-card purchase I am looking to purchase a videocard between the $120-150 range. I DO NOT need a Radeon 9700 or some other suprer-power, just a card that has good value to performance. What would be your suggestions about a good mid-range card to buy? I have looked over the Radeon 9000 Pro extensively, is this card any good?
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24-11-2002
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| Blown to smitherines  Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: The c@ke mixer
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| I have a straight Radeon 9000 and I don't have problems. It has directx 8.1 support which is good for all the latest games. I haven't checked the specs recently, but I have no problems with it yet. I have windows 98 (original), windows2000 and windows XP pro, and it works wonderfully on all. One complaint is a few artifacts (cracks between tecture sections) in the sky tectures in a few games, but I'm not running the latest drivers either, just the drivers from the cd.
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24-11-2002
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| CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2002
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| Yeah, go for Radeon 9000. I think thats the only good card you can get in the market. GF4 MXs sucks ! Add another 100 bucks and you can get Radeon 9000 Pro or 8500. Radeon 9000 Pro is the faster version of Radeon 9000 but I think 8500 is a better card. Why don't you get a GF4 Ti 4200 ? |
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25-11-2002
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| CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Hiding in DaTaxMan's house (you wont find me, Tax!) HINT* Look in the wine cellar
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| I found Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB (from ATI, OEM version) for $95.00 on GameVE.com. I think I will order this one.
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