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Which Video Card is better?
Hello, I need to upgrade the video card on my computer.
However, since I am a student I don't have a whole lot of cash. So, I researched some "budget" cards and came up with the following: 1) ATI Radeon 9200 2) nVidia GeForce FX5200 (From MSI Corp.) The above two cards are affordable for me, but I just can not decide which is better. I have Windows XP Professional, SP1, and DirectX 9.0. The card will be used for maily games and a 3D modeling application. Any Thoughts? Thanks in advance. Fred |
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Which Video Card is better?
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1552184,00.asp
"3D Price/Performance Shootout" It's a gaming comparison, rather than one for graphics applications. I believe that the Radeon 9200 is not a DirectX 9 part; rather, it's a DX 8.1 card. (See www.ati.com.) That may not be important for most games at this time. If the MSI card is a vanilla FX 5200 (rather than a 5200 Ultra), it will have slower graphics processor and (I expect) memory clocks than the Ultra. You might do better with a Radeon 9600 family product. (www.newegg.com allows you to search video cards by chipset, so you'll find several makers of cards that use the 9600 GPU.) The non-Pro has a lower clock than the Pro, but some models are less than $100US. Avoid the SE version. HTH. Address altered. Replace nkbob with bobkn. "-----Fred-----" wrote in message ... Hello, I need to upgrade the video card on my computer. However, since I am a student I don't have a whole lot of cash. So, I researched some "budget" cards and came up with the following: 1) ATI Radeon 9200 2) nVidia GeForce FX5200 (From MSI Corp.) The above two cards are affordable for me, but I just can not decide which is better. I have Windows XP Professional, SP1, and DirectX 9.0. The card will be used for maily games and a 3D modeling application. Any Thoughts? Thanks in advance. Fred |
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Which Video Card is better?
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1552184,00.asp
"3D Price/Performance Shootout" It's a gaming comparison, rather than one for graphics applications. I believe that the Radeon 9200 is not a DirectX 9 part; rather, it's a DX 8.1 card. (See www.ati.com.) That may not be important for most games at this time. If the MSI card is a vanilla FX 5200 (rather than a 5200 Ultra), it will have slower graphics processor and (I expect) memory clocks than the Ultra. You might do better with a Radeon 9600 family product. (www.newegg.com allows you to search video cards by chipset, so you'll find several makers of cards that use the 9600 GPU.) The non-Pro has a lower clock than the Pro, but some models are less than $100US. Avoid the SE version. HTH. Address altered. Replace nkbob with bobkn. "-----Fred-----" wrote in message ... Hello, I need to upgrade the video card on my computer. However, since I am a student I don't have a whole lot of cash. So, I researched some "budget" cards and came up with the following: 1) ATI Radeon 9200 2) nVidia GeForce FX5200 (From MSI Corp.) The above two cards are affordable for me, but I just can not decide which is better. I have Windows XP Professional, SP1, and DirectX 9.0. The card will be used for maily games and a 3D modeling application. Any Thoughts? Thanks in advance. Fred |
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Which Video Card is better?
"-----Fred-----" wrote in message ... Hello, I need to upgrade the video card on my computer. However, since I am a student I don't have a whole lot of cash. So, I researched some "budget" cards and came up with the following: 1) ATI Radeon 9200 2) nVidia GeForce FX5200 (From MSI Corp.) The above two cards are affordable for me, but I just can not decide which is better. I have Windows XP Professional, SP1, and DirectX 9.0. The card will be used for maily games and a 3D modeling application. Any Thoughts? Thanks in advance. Fred Wait, wait and wait and you will find that cards like the Radeon 9600xt will be affordable. Basically the others are junk |
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Which Video Card is better?
"-----Fred-----" wrote in message ... Hello, I need to upgrade the video card on my computer. However, since I am a student I don't have a whole lot of cash. So, I researched some "budget" cards and came up with the following: 1) ATI Radeon 9200 2) nVidia GeForce FX5200 (From MSI Corp.) The above two cards are affordable for me, but I just can not decide which is better. I have Windows XP Professional, SP1, and DirectX 9.0. The card will be used for maily games and a 3D modeling application. Any Thoughts? Thanks in advance. Fred Wait, wait and wait and you will find that cards like the Radeon 9600xt will be affordable. Basically the others are junk |
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