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fierydemise

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9600 PRO first of all lots of people have had bad experiences with XFX and the 9600 PRO is faster anyway
 
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mwmorph

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9600pro fro 3 reasons
1. It uses less image degrading optimizations
2. It is faster in DX9 the FX series has either IQ or Speed problems(READ REALLY BIG) in DX9 games(aka all the new ones). Farcry shaders dont look right, HL2 speed is slaughtered(think 60% speed loss)
3. FX line in general was trash. it was mainy a hackjob to get products out of the door to compete.
 
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Preti9cboi

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Hey buddy........read this

Pretend the GPU(graphics processing unit) on a video card is the UPS man and RAM is a city or state. The objective of the UPS man is to deliver boxes to every single house.

Now.....If you only have one UPS man, would he be able to deliver a truck load of boxes in a city or a state faster?

So, the UPS man has the option to drive a 9600xt or a 5200. Because a car can only go so fast, he wont be able to deliver a truck load of boxes in the state of 256mb as fast as he could in the city of 128mb.

"He will deliver faster if there is only 128mb of houses. He will also get tired and sleepy on a road trip in the state of 256mb "

HOWEVER......If the UPS man happened to be flying a x800xl then he would be able to deliver his mail in the state of 256mb in an extremely short time.

ALSO, it is not practical to fly a x800xl within a city.

But because the UPS man is only flying a x800xl he wont be able to deliver throughout the galaxy of 512mb unless he had a spaceship powered by an r520 warp engine.

You will lose performance and pay extra money you dont have too.
Benchmarks....
http://www.guru3d.com/article/content/79/7/

 
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Munky

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Well, that ups analogy was pretty funny, but anyway there's no reason to get a 256mb midrange card, it's just not powerful enough to use it effetively. But I'd take the 9600pro over the fx5500 any day, the fx cards were just trash. Just make sure you get a 128mb version, not 256mb
 
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Preti9cboi

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Here buddy!! I found something that's a good read.

MYTH: 256MB of RAM on a video card is better than 128MB.
That is only true for upper-end cards that can push high resolutions like 1600x1200 and keep the game at a playable frame rate. 256 MB is not needed for resolutions like 1024x768. The main reason to have 256MB is to set a game to its highest quality texture setting (higher resolution textures). At 1600x1200 you need higher resolution textures, so they don't look "pixely" in your overall higher resolution setting. Hence, you need more Texture RAM to store textures that are like 2048x2048. If you play at a lower resolution, like 1024x768, you will not see much of a difference in setting medium vs. high textures (or in some games, high vs. very high), and you are making your card work harder than it has to. Lower end cards don't have enough horsepower to play modern games at 1600x1200, so 256MB on those cards are a waste of money.

MARKETING TRICK: A Budget Video Card with 256MB of RAM for only $10-$20 more.
As stated in the myth, 256MB on a lower end video card is fairly useless, but what makes it worse is when a vendor sells a budget video card with a full extra 128MB of RAM for such a low price. Great deal, huh? Going by the regular price of RAM, what's wrong with this picture? Are you really getting "a deal"? Chances are... you're not. Most likely, the RAM that's on the 256MB budget card, is SLOWER than the RAM that's on the 128MB budget card. So you just took a slow card to begin with, and made it even slower. Beware!

http://eq2vault.ign.com/View.php?view=columns.Detail&category_select_id=8&id=326
 
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