Sapphire Radeon 9000/9700- what do YOU think? POLL

[TheCorm]

Put one in a recent system build where the user wanted to have a better card than the GF4 MX440 without breaking the bank (just to beat their friend by a small margin 😉) and I was impressed with the card, good value.

But they are having problems playing most games, they load, then minimize, you try and maximize and it comes up for a second or two and then minimizes. Seems to be a DirectX issue according to dxdiag and ATI messages etc.

Can you uninstall and reinstall DirectX on WinXP....am going to try updating to 8.1b to see if that sorts it!

Corm

 

[apoppin]

Looking forward to your article, bluemax. HOW soon on the ATI main page?

 

[bluemax]

Originally posted by: apoppin
Looking forward to your article, bluemax. HOW soon on the ATI main page?

Not my article anymore. Someone at Anandtech took the idea and ran with it, I guess. 🙁 So now he's losing interest since someone else is doing a review. Wondering now if they'll be reviewing yet another Radeon 9700 or "Sapphire". The Company.

We could have worked together on this if they'd answer a single darned email.

 

[apoppin]

🙁

 

[Lonyo]

Saphire cards are available at overclockers and Ebuyer.com for £293, but Hercules cards can be got for less and I would rather have one of them as I've heard of them and they're cheaper (£280 at komplett.co.uk). (talking from a UK point of view) (9700 Pro's)