64 mb ati 8500 le, or 128 mb 9600 se

[slag]

which one would you rather have for playing games?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Sell them both and buy a real card.

- M4H

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Sell them both and buy a real card.

- M4H

Yep, you should be able to get around $100 for both and then put that towards a 9700 Pro or something similar.

 

[ponyo]

i would keep the 8500 le.

 

[dguy6789]

Originally posted by: Naustica
i would keep the 8500 le.

Why, the 9600se is faster.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Sell them both and buy a real card.

- M4H

Yep, you should be able to get around $100 for both and then put that towards a 9700 Pro or something similar.

Why?

I'm keeping one for my son's computer that I occasionally play a game of halflife or something on and the other is going to my dad who plays no games at all.

I need both cards.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Sell them both and buy a real card.

- M4H

Yep, you should be able to get around $100 for both and then put that towards a 9700 Pro or something similar.

Why?

I'm keeping one for my son's computer that I occasionally play a game of halflife or something on and the other is going to my dad who plays no games at all.

I need both cards.

Well, you neglected to give us that little nugget of information. Play games on both and see what you'd rather keep. I'd still sell at least one and get something better, but that's just me.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Sell them both and buy a real card.

- M4H

Yep, you should be able to get around $100 for both and then put that towards a 9700 Pro or something similar.

Why?

I'm keeping one for my son's computer that I occasionally play a game of halflife or something on and the other is going to my dad who plays no games at all.

I need both cards.

Well, you neglected to give us that little nugget of information. Play games on both and see what you'd rather keep. I'd still sell at least one and get something better, but that's just me.

It shouldnt matter. My choice was between the 2 cards, not "sell both and get another".

Pretty simple question actually, which is the better game playing card. I never got the response I wanted so I am going to just try both.

Thanks all for the help, but I really didnt receive any??

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: dguy6789

Originally posted by: Naustica
i would keep the 8500 le.

Why, the 9600se is faster.

No it's not. 9600se is junk.

 

[ponyo]

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Sell them both and buy a real card.

- M4H

Yep, you should be able to get around $100 for both and then put that towards a 9700 Pro or something similar.

Why?

I'm keeping one for my son's computer that I occasionally play a game of halflife or something on and the other is going to my dad who plays no games at all.

I need both cards.

Well, you neglected to give us that little nugget of information. Play games on both and see what you'd rather keep. I'd still sell at least one and get something better, but that's just me.

It shouldnt matter. My choice was between the 2 cards, not "sell both and get another".

Pretty simple question actually, which is the better game playing card. I never got the response I wanted so I am going to just try both.

Thanks all for the help, but I really didnt receive any??

I told you but I guess I didn't explain myself. Give the 8500le to your son. It's lot faster than 9600se in games. 9600SE is crippled 9600 with 64-bit memory interface. 8500le is older card but has 128-bit memroy interface. 8500le will crush 9600SE in games. Want proof? Check out these benchmarks.

Benchmarks

 

[HappyNic]

come on slag,, be fair here,, MDE was just giving you what he would do.. because in your question you ask"

which one would you rather have for playing games?

If you would of just said your story in the first place ,, it would of work out better.

But either way,, because we don't really know what game you play and how fast is your system the choice is still pretty much a coin flip. The 9600se supports DX9,, But the 8500le is still a very good card.
Also,, the speed of both cards depends on what speed their core/memory was set at. There are fast 8500les that are almost as fast as retail and there are slow ones with 6 nanosec ram.

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: slag

Originally posted by: MDE

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Sell them both and buy a real card.

- M4H

Yep, you should be able to get around $100 for both and then put that towards a 9700 Pro or something similar.

Why?

I'm keeping one for my son's computer that I occasionally play a game of halflife or something on and the other is going to my dad who plays no games at all.

I need both cards.

Well, you neglected to give us that little nugget of information. Play games on both and see what you'd rather keep. I'd still sell at least one and get something better, but that's just me.

It shouldnt matter. My choice was between the 2 cards, not "sell both and get another".

Pretty simple question actually, which is the better game playing card. I never got the response I wanted so I am going to just try both.

Thanks all for the help, but I really didnt receive any??

You got quite a bit of advice, take it and a quick glance at the Tom's Hardware VGA Charts where they compare any card remotely viable for gaming and you could put two and two together.

EDIT: I goofed and assumed a Tom's review would be a proper tool for anything. They left out the 8500LE.
EDIT2: An older review seems to have what you want: link From the first four games I looked at the 8500 stomps all over the 9600SE.