Well, I'm looking at upgrading from a GeForce 3 Ti200, and the R9500Pro with the recent price drops is looking especially inviting, at $297 Canadian (~$200 USD). I'm wondering if that's a good move. I bought the GeForce 3 I have for around $150USD (~$230 CDN), and have always been a generation skipper, so I likely won't be upgrading for a year or so. I was just wondering what people's thoughts/suggestions are on which card I should go with. I'm open to picking up another nVidia card, but the Radeon's numbers with AA/AF (something I do use) are just killer.
Basically, I've written myself up a list of features I'd like and do/would regularly use aside from raw FPS:
- Dual monitor support.
- Component Out, S-Video Out, DVI Out.
- FSAA/AF in games.
- Good 2D image quality.
- * Linux support (drivers).
*: Absolute must.
The principal reasons I bought a GeForce 3 over a Radeon 8500 at the time were:
A) It was cheaper
B) It had infinitely better linux support (No offense to the DRI team).
Now ATI is releasing their own Linux drivers, so that piece of the equation is ignorable, unless someone who uses linux exclusively for the 70% of the time they aren't gaming tells me the support is really bad. From everything I've read/heard it seems like ATI is doing a good job on that front.
Now, you're all probably going to yell at me, but this is the system I'm running it on:
Thunderbird 1.2GHz
768MB PC-133 SDRAM
ASUS A7V133
Maxtor 20GB ATA/100 HDD
Fujitsu 40GB ATA/100 HDD
Creative SB Live!
Noname Case w/250W PSU
Now, I know that this system will likely be unable to fill that card, which is fine by me, since I'm going to be upgrading my motherboard/processor/ram in the near future. The PSU I can upgrade now as well.
Basically, I've written myself up a list of features I'd like and do/would regularly use aside from raw FPS:
- Dual monitor support.
- Component Out, S-Video Out, DVI Out.
- FSAA/AF in games.
- Good 2D image quality.
- * Linux support (drivers).
*: Absolute must.
The principal reasons I bought a GeForce 3 over a Radeon 8500 at the time were:
A) It was cheaper
B) It had infinitely better linux support (No offense to the DRI team).
Now ATI is releasing their own Linux drivers, so that piece of the equation is ignorable, unless someone who uses linux exclusively for the 70% of the time they aren't gaming tells me the support is really bad. From everything I've read/heard it seems like ATI is doing a good job on that front.
Now, you're all probably going to yell at me, but this is the system I'm running it on:
Thunderbird 1.2GHz
768MB PC-133 SDRAM
ASUS A7V133
Maxtor 20GB ATA/100 HDD
Fujitsu 40GB ATA/100 HDD
Creative SB Live!
Noname Case w/250W PSU
Now, I know that this system will likely be unable to fill that card, which is fine by me, since I'm going to be upgrading my motherboard/processor/ram in the near future. The PSU I can upgrade now as well.
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