Which graphics card? 8500, geforce3, geforce 3 ti200, 9500 np(not in price range) , or recommend another sub $100 card?

[MikeMike]

Which of those will give the best performance with an AMD 1.13ghz(unsure of duron or what)

which will be the most o/c able and future proof? Which has the best drivers behind it and which one do you recommend?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

..what are the other parts..mobo,OS,ram/type..?

 

[Viper96720]

lol I voted for show me the results along with someone else. I'm assuming you voted for 8500. Why no 9000's? I think the 9500Pro will be a $150 card or less when FX comes out.

 

[MikeMike]

All i know is that he is gettin pc2100 unknown amount, and the 1.13 dont know what mobo, or anything else, currently he has a p2 400 with like a tnt2 in it so he is usin a lot of stuff from that, but not mem, cpu, gpu, or mobo

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: Viper96720
lol I voted for show me the results along with someone else. I'm assuming you voted for 8500. Why no 9000's? I think the 9500Pro will be a $150 card or less when FX comes out.

actually i voted show me the results, and he wants it as a 100$ or less

and is the 9k better thanthe 8500?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1

Originally posted by: Viper96720
lol I voted for show me the results along with someone else. I'm assuming you voted for 8500. Why no 9000's? I think the 9500Pro will be a $150 card or less when FX comes out.

actually i voted show me the results, and he wants it as a 100$ or less

and is the 9k better thanthe 8500?

actually no ..on the 9k vs. 8500(also which variant has an impact..)I haven't voted as you don't have ti4200 G4 listed..over in HotDeals at the moment is a Compaq(has onboard video..ProSavage8 128MB ddr266 memory..40GB harddrive and a XP2000+..3pci and one AGP slot and either a CDRW or DVDRom ..OS=WinXP Home ) system can be got for very cheap adding a GF4 ti4200 128MB AGP card to it adds only $100..But from your choices I'd go ti500 if could be found for under $100link to Staples and link to the deal thread

 

[Viper96720]

I'm using an 8500 64mb retail. I also have a ti-4400 and the IQ is way better on my 8500. I thought the 9000's were the same just dx9 support. They're some 64mb 9000pro's for under a $100.

 

[Willoughbyva]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/video/6-value-roundup/

 

[PliotronX]

I would go with the 8500 or the 9100 (same thing with a couple differences for the better, R9000 is slower than 8500).

Viper96720, despite it being in the group of 9k cards, the R9000 is not DX9 compliant. It uses the same architecture as the 8500 but has one less texture unit IIRC. It is quite a bit slower than the 8500 and comes clocklocked (with a BIOS hack it changes though).

 

[Viper96720]

Guess I better read better. I just like looking at the pictures and graphs. All this time I thought all 9000 series were dx9 cards. The 9700, 9500, 9000 etc...

 

[PliotronX]

I think that was what ATI was counting on, the model numbers to do the talking =\ It was very deceptive to switch the modeling scheme midgame where the 8500 (and maybe they had other 8x00 models planned) to be DX8 counterparts and the 7x00 models being DX7 counterparts. BTW the 9500 is DX9 compliant

edit- I guess it's no worse than Nvidia releasing DX7 hardware under the GF4 name though.

Deception seems to be a popular ATI game...

 

[VBboy]

Who cares what we think if you can look at benchmarks and use hard facts to decide for yourself. TomsHardware.com has an awesome VGA charts that compare the older and latest videocards.