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Which video card has the best bang for the buck

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jl123

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I'm getting a newer video card soon. It's between the Geforce 2 Ti500 and the Radeon 8500. I know the Geforce 3 can beat the Radeon but I've seen radeons @ $170(Radeon 8500). I'm tight on money this time.

thx
~Joel
 

lol...you have difficulties deciding between a Geforce 2 (TWO !) TI and a Radeon 8500 !

This is a no brainer 😉

I have seen preview screen shots of the upcoming new radeon drivers which will support anisotropic filtering...awesome...especially in conjuntion with smoothvison. Radeon beats even gf3, so why do you have to think whether to get a gf2 ti or a radeon ? Get the Radeon OEM/LE..its a few mhz less....and soon there will be even better/newer drivers...i dont think you will regret it and it doesnt cost an arm and a leg.

(me: Happy Radeon 8500 owner)



 


<< I'm getting a newer video card soon. It's between the Geforce 2 Ti500 and the Radeon 8500. I know the Geforce 3 can beat the Radeon but I've seen radeons @ $170(Radeon 8500). I'm tight on money this time.

thx
~Joel >>

 


<< lol...you have difficulties deciding between a Geforce 2 (TWO !) TI and a Radeon 8500 !

This is a no brainer 😉

so why do you have to think whether to get a gf2 ti or a radeon ?

(me: Happy Radeon 8500 owner) >>


i think he ment gf3 ti 500 but could be wrong

sorry not everyone is as perfect of a typer as you😉
 

dont get me started - dont get me started 🙂


What do you want ?


Spend more money, more reliability (drivers)..but less features: GeForce 3 ti

Spend less money, less reliability (drivers)..but some added stuff like DX8.1 hardware support, truform: Get Radeon

imho the radeon has much more growth potential than the gf3 ti of course - and i wouldnt want to know how the radeon would (out)perform the gf3 if the *same* developers would have spent the *same* time developing drivers for ATI as they did for nvidia drivers...

If you want the best bang for the buck i would also NOT get an TI 500 and rather get a TI 200...THEN it's really a good deal...








 


<< dont get me started - dont get me started 🙂


What do you want ?


Spend more money, more reliability (drivers)..but less features: GeForce 3 ti

Spend less money, less reliability (drivers)..but some added stuff like DX8.1 hardware support, truform: Get Radeon

imho the radeon has much more growth potential than the gf3 ti of course - and i wouldnt want to know how the radeon would (out)perform the gf3 if the *same* developers would have spent the *same* time developing drivers for ATI as they did for nvidia drivers...

If you want the best bang for the buck i would also NOT get an TI 500 and rather get a TI 200...THEN it's really a good deal... >>



He wants better drivers, and a card that works in opengl. Radeon is suck, radeons drivers is suck, and ATi is suck
 
Hey maybe I have just been lucky but I haven't had a driver issue or a hickup on my OEM 8500. I am on a clean install of XP and it has been FLAWLESS. I admit to only been playing about 6-7 games so far but
Retrun to Castle wolfenstien
Diablo2
Links2001
Ghost Recon
Giants Have all run perfectly. For the money it is a no brainer so far
Oh I have been running the Beta drivers from ATI so maybe that is why I haven't had any problems.

Darren
 
GeForce 2 can't compete with Radeon 8500. No way. 😉 It's just too old. GeForce 3, on the other hand, is a bit on the expensive side. I would say Radeon 8500 has the best bang for the bucks. It's performance doesn't quite match that of the GeForce 3 Ti500 yet , but improved drivers may enhance its ability in the future (possibly even beating it). Also, it's selling for $100 LESS than GeForce 3, which is why it's so attractive.
 
Oh, BTW I forgot to mention. You said you have seen a Radeon 8500 for $170? I think you are looking at the Radeon 8500 LE, which is only available on OEM and runs slower. It has a lower Core Frequency (250MHZ or something), while the REAL Radeon 8500 runs at 400 MHZ, I think.
 


<< Oh, BTW I forgot to mention. You said you have seen a Radeon 8500 for $170? I think you are looking at the Radeon 8500 LE, which is only available on OEM and runs slower. It has a lower Core Frequency (250MHZ or something), while the REAL Radeon 8500 runs at 400 MHZ, I think. >>



Hey thanks. Doesn't the core on the retail run at 275mhz? Yeah I was looking at the LE. I appriciate u pointing that out.

~Joel
 


<< Does the Geforce 3 Ti200 come close to the Radeon 8500? >>



Actually looks like even the slower clocked 8500dv competes with the G3 Ti200. ATI drivers don't suck, if they did the 8500 wouldn't be already equall or superior to the G3 Ti500 in many benchies now, cmon that silly. The feature set and current performance alone put it ahead of even the Ti500 IMHO, and other than some UT glitches, OpengL performance is great as well. You don't have to wait for good drivers, they've been out for awhile now.
 


<< I'm getting a newer video card soon. It's between the Geforce 2 Ti500 and the Radeon 8500. I know the Geforce 3 can beat the Radeon but I've seen radeons @ $170(Radeon 8500). I'm tight on money this time.

thx
~Joel >>



best bang for the buck..... Easy it's the Visiontek GTS-V for $65

I score 4200 in 3Dmark 2001 with it while my Vision Tek GF3 Ti-200 gets 6500...
 
The Original Radeon 64MB DDR for me 🙂

The drivers work flawlessly, the TV out is a lot better than the 8500, it actually has Video In plus it runs all my games just fine.

Oh, and my DVDs look nice.
 
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