Is Radeon 9600Pro good as upgrade

[Sandan]

I currently have the Radeon 8500 128MB card and am thinking about upgrading to the 128mb version of the 9600pro. Would I notice much of a difference. I know the 9600pro is dx9 which should be helpful in those games. I play starwars galaxies which should benefit from the upgrade. Is the 9600pro as good as or better than 9500pro. The 9500 is more expensive, go figure. Any opinions would be appreciated.

 

[modedepe]

A 9500 pro is faster than a 9600 pro, but usually not enough so to justify the increased price.

 

[Schadenfroh]

just get a $250 9800NP from new egg that has the samsung and flash it to a pro and be done with it

 

[stardust]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
just get a $250 9800NP from new egg that has the samsung and flash it to a pro and be done with it

Im wondering why ATI backordered so many 9800NP. I think ATI put a lock on the card that prevents such flashing. I just heard that somewhere and it's in the back of my mind... I wonder if this is true.

 

[Blastman]

A 9600pro will be faster than your 8500, but not huge jump unless you run AA/AF,

See ? http://www.hardware.fr/articles/481/page1.html

Current benchmarks show the 9500p and 9600p to be very close in performance. See my post in this thread.

 

[Quixfire]

My current video card is a AIW 7500 and my next upgrade will be 9600 Pro.

 

[Rogodin2]

The newegg 9800nps weren't the samsung memoried ones in the last batch, and they're out.

I'd say an 8500-9600pro is a nice upgrade.

rogo

 

[bandana163]

Upgrade, but small. A 9700np or 9800np would be a big upgrade.