From ASUS GF2 GTS to ATI Radeon 9000

[AnitaPeterson]

Hi there,

I've been lately experiencing a lot of nVidia control panel crashes... I have an ancient GF2 GTS, and the system is not playing any cutting-edge games... the occasional Quake 3 notwithstanding.

However, I'm sending a lot of video to the TV.

I was at a computer fair yesterday, and got a Gigabyte Radeon 9000 for $10. It was for a side project... but now I'm thinking about switching the cards.

I suppose there would be some improvement, considering this is a 64 MB DX 8.1 card, over the 32 MB DX 7 in the ASUS...

But how much of an improvement will I see? Does the 9000 allow me to display stuff on both TV and monitor at the same time, or switch between them with a simple hot key?

 

[Killrose]

The card will be an upgrade as far as games go, but not rally fast enough for some of todays games like BF2, FEAR, ect. Probably will play HL2 ok though. For 10 bucks a definate worthy up-grade as far as the price. I do not have TV/video capability experiance between the two.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

I was just looking at other specs... the memory clock is at 200/333 for GF3 GTS and 250/400 for Radeon 9000. Not as much difference as I hoped for, but still noticeable.

Does anyone else have any experience with the 9000? I'm really curious about TV-out quality... hmmm... it *should* be able to do 1024x768 on the TV, as opposed to my GF2 being limited at 800x600.