Looking for input on Rosewill products

[ManDooM]

because they're damned cheap. They're selling a 9600 non-pro 128mb for $65. $65! The consumer reviews say it will play Doom3 on med quality @ 1024. (Can any 9600 do that?) But for $65 and passive cooling I want to see what the community thinks. Their ram is cheap too. and cases. I'm going to build a secondary system that needs to be hella cheap and doesn't need to cater to an enthusiast. It just needs to run Win98SE well.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

The big red flag that should be going up for you is the following:

Is it a 9600, or a 9600SE?

The former has a 128-bit memory bus and makes a good midrange gamer card.

The latter is bested by a hamster on a wheel with a D-Sub coming out of it.

- M4H

 

[ManDooM]

It doesn't say SE anywhere or tell the speed of the bus. But there's a card that looks exactly the same (no difference at all) for $76.

 

[ts3433]

The $76 is probably the non-crippled version, a true 9600. I have that and it works fine for if I want to mess around with a couple demos I have (I don't yet know if I will have the time/interest to play games on my computer). With medium details, it runs the Far Cry demo pretty smoothly at 10x7, and UT2004 at 12x10 well too. I sort of wish I had spend a bit extra for a Pro or XT, but it still seems a pretty good value for the money.

 

[ManDooM]

wait nevermind. it says 64-bit in the name. Okay so I'll get the more expensive one.