So, which to buy (again...oh, and again)

[Cerb]

OK, RMA'd 9800SE due to wierdness. So...
1. 5900nu is NOT AN OPTION
2. 9600 XT 128MB 500/676 $175
3. 9500 Pro 128MB 275/540 $178

The 9500 Pro has a 10% GPU advantage, from all that I can see, and seems to come to right about that much better benchmarking. However, the 9600 is only that 10% behind there, and has far faster memory.
So...which would be better? I can't seem to find any benchmarks on the PowerColor 9600 XT with the 338MHz memory, nor reviews with similar memory overclocks but no GPU overclock (however, most of the GPU overclocks have been impressive).

 

[Corporate Thug]

9600 XT gives about the same performance as 9500 pro, i would get the XT cuz its a newer core

 

[adams828]

hm i voted "results" to see the results.. now i can't vote in terms of pure #s, the 9500 has a slight edge, but overclocking the 9600xt may help, and for whatever (i'm tired and not so logiacl maybe) reason, i feel maybe the 9600xt has more "growing" room.. so that's my vote

 

[adams828]

you might have seen this already, dunno

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: adams828
you might have seen this already, dunno

i just clicked on a random page, first person shooter benchies cuz i didnt feel like reading the whole thing and the 9600 XT beat out the 9500 pro in all three benchies, good indicator of performance

 

[LackCash]

I'd get the GFFX 5900SE. It costs the same as the 9600XT and outperforms the ATI 9800np half the time according to firingsquad.com (5 out of 9 games) I believe it outperforms the 9600XT on every one of the games or at least the majority of them.

5900SE

 

[LackCash]

At newegg.com $189 and free s/h

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: LackCash
I'd get the GFFX 5900SE. It costs the same as the 9600XT and outperforms the ATI 9800np half the time according to firingsquad.com (5 out of 9 games) I believe it outperforms the 9600XT on every one of the games or at least the majority of them.

5900SE

did u see his original post?

1. 5900nu is NOT AN OPTION

 

[LackCash]

It's not a 5900nu. It's a 5900SE and the 5900nu is $30 more. I assumed his problem was w/ the price.

 

[Corporate Thug]

possibly, but 5900 (non-SE) can still be had for under $200

 

[LackCash]

Well I've been looking only at newegg cause its got a good rep.

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: LackCash
I'd get the GFFX 5900SE. It costs the same as the 9600XT and outperforms the ATI 9800np half the time according to firingsquad.com (5 out of 9 games) I believe it outperforms the 9600XT on every one of the games or at least the majority of them.

5900SE

I know. But see, I couldn't play any video (aside from quicktime) on my GF4 using newer (43.xx, IIRC) drivers, because of NVidia's Macorvision BS (it was only supposed to stop DVD playback...it didn't). So NVidia is out of the question. I admit the performance for the price is excellent and all that good stuff, but I'm not buying another NVidia for at least this current product generation.

 

[LackCash]

OK 9600 XT then