Can someone give me the lowdown on a Radeon 9600SE?

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videoclone

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BugsBunny1078 You played Half life 2 ???? wow ohh you must be talking about the 9600 NP or 9600 Pro
Because the 9600se runs Far Cry like crap ohhh it runs Battle field Vietnam like crap too

Sure it runs games ok with low rez and low graphics options but hell so does my old geforce2 Pro 64Mb card whats your point .. i would like you to go back to your 9600SE and Turn all Graphics on max and run the card at a rez like 1024x768x32

The card falls to its knees !!! its a good card if your not a Gamer if your not planning to play new games like BF Vietnam and Farcry with graphics on at a medium level let alone a high level. A Geforce4 Ti4200 is now struggling with Battle field Vietnam and Far cry and from all reviews on the net a Ti4200 Card is twice as fast as a 9600SE so how the hell do you know better then everyone else ??? i think your wrong and the two thousand reviewers with there numbers are right.
 
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No such thing as a 9600LE --------- > it?s a 9600 LE. There has to be a space after the 9600 because they can?t call it a 9600LE -- doesn?t exist. Anything that says 9600LE is technically a misprint.

It?s a 9600 Light Edition = standard 9600 325/200. The LE usually stands for a retail product with bare bone extras.
 
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Blastman

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9600SE is a decent light ? (stress that) ? gaming card for $67 (stress that too :D) (the elitebastards review was good) but it is slower than your GF3 ti200.

You would need to jump to minimum a 9600pro to see a significant improvement over your current card.
 
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modedepe

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Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
9600 se is pretty good card. Runs everything fine including call of duty and painkiller and half life 2 which comes with it.
I am actually using one I am going to return it before the 30 days are up so i can upgrade. I only got it because my fx 5700 burnt out.. It runs very good for the specs though. Dont listen to these guys they dont know what theyre talking about. They look at numbers and think they can predict performance. This card runs smooth and all games are playable. thats all that counts.
This is one card that will prove benchmarks useless. Despite low numbers it is more playable than higher benchmarking cards.
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Wow, it runs a game that isn't even out yet, impressive. And yes, it'll run game fine if you don't mind turning down your res and details. There are much better deals out there for the price though. Oh, and how do benchmarks not prove the performance of the card? If benchmarks show it get 10fps in a game vs 70fps for some other card, that pretty much shows it's not up to par with the other card.
 
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BugsBunny1078

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right it runs games fine with options turned low.
It is a good starter card and admittedly im not going to keep it. Lower res textures in a game like COD the textures are so bad anyways that you can't tell the difference when you set them low.Benchmarks are useless in some cases. While a nvidia fx 5700 ultra does get nice benchmarks in 3dmark 2003 if you pay attention when the benchmark is happening there are certain parts where obvious cheating is going on. Small scenes where the fps jumps up to 400 thus artificially inflating the results.
Not that that makes the card slower than the 9600 but when the 9600 se does slow down it still keeps a nice even frame rate.
This even frame rate and smoothness make the game still playable. That is a quality that is not measured in benchmarks.
I would say that a 50 fps on the 9600 se is better than a 75 fps on the fx 5200 because ont he 5200 its 20 sometimes and 90 others. On the 9600 se its 45-55 and that makes it seem smoother and far more playable.
 
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Thanks, SunnyD, for asking this question. I'm in the same situation as you are, ie., deciding on an upgrade to my GF3 TI200. So I guess that throws out 9600SE which is on this week's BB specials. I guess I'll order the 9600Pro from NewEgg.

I got FarCry from Sam's BTW. GF3 performs well at 1024x768 but FarCry doesn't start when I set Antialiasing on. I think ATIs are better at antialiasing which is why I'm ruling out GF4 in my upgrade path.
 
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Don't expect spectacular AA performance with a 9600 pro either.... ATI's AA strength is in their 9700 and 9800 pro line of cards.
 
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BugsBunny1078

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Originally posted by: vcarpio
Thanks, SunnyD, for asking this question. I'm in the same situation as you are, ie., deciding on an upgrade to my GF3 TI200. So I guess that throws out 9600SE which is on this week's BB specials. I guess I'll order the 9600Pro from NewEgg.

I got FarCry from Sam's BTW. GF3 performs well at 1024x768 but FarCry doesn't start when I set Antialiasing on. I think ATIs are better at antialiasing which is why I'm ruling out GF4 in my upgrade path.
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Well you can always do what I do. You got 30 days to return a card so just buy what you can afford for now and return it in 30 days then buy a better one and return it in 30 days too. Add a little more money and get a better one .
 
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