Recommend an nVidia card.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2003-11-26 08:28am

as a joke: I never said I was sane.

Also, I'm sterotyped as a "geek" why not act the part

its fun!

Ypoknons · Post by **Ypoknons** » 2003-11-26 09:25am

Ace Pace wrote: I never said specificly those cards, but there is NO reason if you can, and if you want to run games at high detail, get the high ends, find on price watch, or other sites, a simple 9700, or a R9800 regular, don't go to XT, the "overdriving" dosn't go over 10 MHZ overclock.

Ace, I was supporting your 9700PRO purchase. And I wasn't very clear, I know, but I bascially meant: if you need high end, get a 9800PRO or 5900 non-ultra. I think these can be found for less than $300US?

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2003-11-26 10:41am

Ypoknons wrote:
Ace Pace wrote: I never said specificly those cards, but there is NO reason if you can, and if you want to run games at high detail, get the high ends, find on price watch, or other sites, a simple 9700, or a R9800 regular, don't go to XT, the "overdriving" dosn't go over 10 MHZ overclock.
Ace, I was supporting your 9700PRO purchase. And I wasn't very clear, I know, but I bascially meant: if you need high end, get a 9800PRO or 5900 non-ultra. I think these can be found for less than $300US?

sorry, my bad for not understanding.

a Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB is 299$, strange that a 256MB and a XT have the same Price.

Nvidia 128 MB 5900 will set you back around 200$, while a 256 will use allmost 300$.

*end geek show*

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2003-11-26 08:17pm

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:
Drooling Iguana wrote:How are the ATI cards' Linux drivers? I've heard some bad things about them, but that was a long time ago. Have they improved?
Wish I still had that quote Mike made in my sig. I'll try and reproduce from memory.

"ATI should just put a big sign that says "Fuck you Linux users!" on their website to save us the trouble of figuring out their Linux strategy for ourselves." - Darth Wong

But how long ago was that, and have they changed their policies at all in the meantime?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-11-26 08:18pm

ATI recently released some new Linux drivers, but they still aren't as good as nVidia's.

desertjedi · Post by **desertjedi** » 2003-11-30 01:20pm

If you can find it, a RAdeon 9500 Pro is a great card... cheap with great performance. If you NEED the latest texel shaders or whatever it's called for the DX 9.X games, go with the 9600Pro.