GeForce3 or Radeon 8500?? Please Help guys v.2!!!

[VegeterianTiger]

sorry guys for some reason the message didnt paste properly for the previous post.

I am looking to purchase a Graphics card for the sole purpose of gaming and watching DVDs

Despite reading numerous reviews i am still unsure as to which card to get. The GeForce 3 seems

to get better frames per second than the Radeon, but from what i have seen it seems that the

Radeon has better image quality due to TRUFORM and SMOOTHVISION technologies. Since once

fps rates get above the "magical 60 fps", it is all the same i think it is better to have better image

quality. And since the Radeon provides better quality at the moment i am favoring it over the GeForce3.

The only thing i am worried about is that in all the reviews i have read the Radeon is tested on q3, UT,

Max-Payne etc. Just a limited number of games. What i concerned about is compatibility issues with a wider

range of games. Is the radeon reliable for all games?? Is SMOOTHVISION and TRUFORM working on most other

games?? I would appreciate if some owners of a RADEON 8500 could fill me in?? have u guys have had any problems

with any games and if so what kind of problems???

 

[Jethro666]

Keep your current video card, and buy a big succulent turkey to share with your family at Christmas! They will be thankful.

 

[Tomek]

don't forget Giants http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/01q4/011123/radeon8500-05.html#giants

but, I would also like to hear the opinion of people who have either owned a GeForce card and upgraded to the Radeon or who own both the Radeon 8500 and a GeForce3
I'm particularly interested in 2D and 3D image quality and, as was mentioned in the top post, compatibility with other games

 

[tlemmon]

I had a GF3 card (a few of them actually) and now I have a Radeon 8500. I wanted to get the best 2d IQ at high resolutions/refresh rates. I must say this radeon does do that, but there is one major problem: Driver Maturity. If you want a gaming card, get a GF3. There are so many freakin bugs with these drivers! I get artifacts, tearing, stuttering, locking up, and more! I cannot stand this Radeon. I am taking it back today and looking into the Leadtek GF3 TDH. I hear it has awesome 2d. I want a card with a proven track record. I want a card with a chipset from a company that has stable drivers. I don't want to have to deal with the immaturity of a product. Isn't that what Beta/Alpha testing is for? I do not feel that we as consumers should have to be the beta testing department for a large company (unless they give us the cards, free of course!). Save yourself the grief. Get a GF3 card.

I think ATI is the Packard Bell of Graphics Companies!!

-t

 

[falconx80]

my suggestions to you is to buy both cards with a credit card,
use it for 10-15 days, try all the games you possiblly could with both cards.

then decide which one you like the best. and return the one that failed to meet your expectations


edit: these reviews can tell you anything, but they have to make money somehow....you have to buy the card in the end, you are the one spending the money.

 

[Eagle17]

I agree with falconX.

I have a geforce 2gts and a radeon 8500. I also have a radeon 32 retail. I bought the radeon first than after all the problems I had I got the geforce 2. Now the 8500 has the same problems the radeon had and I am looking for a decent GF3 card. I have noticed that the radeon is a lot better with the 3286 drivers, I still have some problems in more than a few games. when I got the radeon the only game it would work with was Q3, now that I have the 8500 the only game (I play) that it really works flawlwssly in is Q3 (or derivitive). I use my card also for a HTPC (home theater personal computer) and the Radeon Blows everything away in this respect. Now if they only can produce the HD cable they were promising.