Questions about ATI Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO....

[jamesbond007]

Hello, guys. I am building a new rig and was wondering how the ATI Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO works? I plan to run Windows ME, since it will be strictly a gaming machine. I know ATI has problems with their Win2k drivers, but despite that, how does the card perform? I was looking at the Matrox G450 Millennium Edition, as well. My friend has the G400 and he can't do didly squat for gaming with it. He even runs 512x??? and that barely runs decent for him! He was wondering how the G450 can game? (32MB DDR version) The Radeon seems to have the better 2D as well as a mediokre 3D engine. Also, it has VIVO, providing a complete all-in-one solution. I do plan to possibly watch Satellite TV on it as well, if I can. Like I said before, this will be strictly a gaming/LAN party machine. Oh yeah, one more thing. I've managed to stay away from ATI for a while because I used to have a couple cards from them before and I got all of these graphic artifacts during gameplay, such as wierd shapes appearing, etc. Does that still happen now? I will be using an Asus A7V133 along with a 1.33GHz Thunderbird, 256MB RAM, SBLive! X-Gamer, 60GB HDD, Mid-Tower ATX case, CDROM. Pretty basic setup, hardware wise. Nothing out of the ordinary. I think the Radeon is my answer to what I'm looking for.

Thank you.

 

[taylor34]

The new Radeon cards have worked pretty well for me so far. I have the 32 ddr retail version and have experienced no artifacts in any games so far (including black and white, unreal tournament, nba live 2001, nhl 2001, and others). I've been very happy with it so far. The only reason to go with a g450 is if you want dual screens. Just my 2 cents.

 

[aircooled]

I wouldn't call the radeon's 3d engine mediokre, it is quite nice. I do run mine on win2k and gaming is excellent. You will really love it on the 9x kernel.

Check out rage3d.com and rageunderground for plenty of detailed information.

 

[RagingGuardian]

I have a Radeon VIVO and Win2k and my performance is better than in 98SE. I love this card.

 

[jamesbond007]

Wow! Thanks for the info guys. I think I will purchase one at my local hardware store. It's on sale for like $170 after a mail-in rebate. $200 up front, though. I have a Dell laptop, which uses an ATI video card, and it works very well. I can do Quake 3, Unreal Tournement, and lots of other games. It's the 32MB ATI Mobility M4 4x AGP card. I got the Inspiron 8000. Very nice LAN party machine.

 

[Wrawrat]

Just a comment... The Matrox G450 is almost the same as G400, except that the G450 has a smaller die size (.18µ instead of .25µ) and it *could* be clockerd higher, but I don't remember quite well... So if the FPS of your friend suck in a game with a G400, good chances that it'll suck as much with a G450. Well, IMHO.