Connect3D Radeon 9200 128MB DDR AGP8X with TV-Out & DVI Video Card

[j8choi]

How is this video card? Is it a good deal for 69 bucks?

 

[Joemonkey]

welcome to the forums
this is however the wrong place to post this, unless you provide a link where it can be purchased for $69
to see if it's a good card, go to the video forum and search for threads on it, or go to google and search for benchmarks
i think it's a pretty good card myself

 

[dxpaap]

I was just about to pick one up today, but decided to look into it a little further.

Got this from Toms hardware page:

These cards use the RV280 chip. Like its predecessor, the RV 250 (Radeon 9000), the RV280 is based on the DirectX 8.1 Radeon 8500 design (R200). To create this budget chip, ATi took the R200 and stripped it of two pixel pipelines, two texture units, and a vertex shader. And voilà - the RV280. In contrast to the Radeon 9000, the newer 9200 supports AGP8x and runs at higher clock speeds. It is manufactured with a 0.15µ production process and consists of roughly 36 million transistors.

The RV280's greatest weaknesses are the outdated and slow super sampling FSAA technique and the fact that it is limited to bilinear anisotropic filtering.

Versions:

Radeon 9200 64-/ 128-MB 128-bit DDR (250/ 400); official price: $99-$129
Radeon 9200 PRO 128-MB 128-bit DDR (300/ 600); official price: $129-$149

Microcenter has it on sale for $90 with $30 rebate =$60 (actually its made by ST Labs not ATI - just uses the ATI chip set)

but Pricewatch has Sapphire RADEON 9200 ATLANTIS 128MB DDR for a few $ less

thnik I'll do little more research !