Best and Cheapest Video Card

amb#cog

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Radeon LE hands down. Sorry the MX just isn't all that, and the visual quality of the Radeon will blow it away.
 

DClark

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The Radeon LE has been an excellent card for me. I run it at the stock clock (148/148) but with the HyperZ hack.

It's nice to know that if it should ever start bogging down in any of my games, I can overclock it by 40 more mhz without any artifacts. The highest I've benched my LE was a 3DMark2000 run at 205/205.

Here's a link to a very good review put together by X-Bit labs:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/video/radeon-le.html
 

jobberd

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not speaking from first hand experience, but people with hacked Radeon LE's usually get around 3000 in the 3dmark 2001 benchmark. In fact, I believe there was a thread on it.....
 

DClark

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In regards to my 3DMarks, running a P3 700@700 and the LE stock except for the HyperZ hack (this is the run I use as my 'Baseline' score so I know whether any future changes I do make my computer faster or slower), I score around 2350 in 3DMark2K1 (here's a published score of 2358).

In full-blown overclocked (P3 700@980, Radeon LE@ 198/198) mode, my highest score is 3157.
 

dave5317

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It's kinda impossible to get the BEST with the CHEAPEST price.Depends on ur budget and I think Radeon LE is enough for everything,yet low price too!