Which graphics card would you choose?

[Griffter]

From asking around and posting on various boards about my graphics card everyone tells me to upgrade. I have a limited budget so I found the following card in my price range.

$130
ATI Radeon� 9000 Pro AGP Graphics Card
Powered by 128MB of DDR memory
Four highly optimized rendering pipelines
Features SMARTSHADER�, SMOOTHVISION�, FULLSTREAM� & VIDEO IMMERSION� II


Is this card any good? Anyone have this card and care to share their experiences (good and bad) with it?


- Griffter

[Squick]

From my quick research it looks like the Radeon9000 Pro scores quite a bit below the Geforce4 Ti4200...

http://www17.tomshardware.com/graphi...ournament_2003

[JonnyK]

get the radeon 9500 128 mb card, it's only $20 more and it outperforms or is equal to the gf4 ti4600

[Griffter]

Looking at the stores in my area they are all $220 or more.

- Griffter

[Dovieye]

Do you want to die or do you want to win.?

$20, $50, $100 the difference is a happier a gamer. save my son save.

Kinda sad really coming from a guy who works at a supermarket but hell its all good.

Im still paying off my 9700 pro..........And on esitmation 6 kills a dollar..... AHHHHH well worth it

Have fun rod

[Griffter]

... seems to outperform nearly all other cards except the Radeon 9500 and 9700 pro cards.

- Griffter

[Squick]

Geforce4 is a very powerfull chipset... And it is over a year old now!

I bought two Geforce4 Ti4600 cards the very first weekend they came out (yeah, the Best Buy lady actually did comment on $850 in video cards on one bill) and I am very glad I did... I was hoping nothing excessivly better came along, and nothing has. The Radeon 9700 Pro is noteably better then the Geforce4, but not by a large enough margin to justify spending another $300...

[Solitudinem]

As far as best bang for your buck goes, pick up a G4 Ti4200.. you will love it.

[Angelos]

9000 doesn't have directx 9 support, so I'd try to find a card that does, so you don't have to upgrade any time soon.

[Squick]

Geforce4 (and GeforceFX for that matter) do not support DirectX9 completely, no games use DirectX9 currently, even Doom3 which looks to be the most demanding game to date does not require a DirectX9 card. So if you want a DirectX9 card I think your only option is the 9700, but I am pretty sure those are a minimum of $300 for the 9700 pro.

Squick

[Trol]

Here is a GeForce4 Ti4200 128mb for $119.99 + $5 shipping

Also if you could afford it I would suggest the Asus Geforce FX 5600 128MB for $189.99 with free shipping.

[Shub]

No one's commented on this, and I think it bears mentioning. Whether or not ATI has better drivers, they still have more compatibility issues than nvidia. My belief is that once the damn thing is put together it should work--Geforce4 was the obvious choice when I built my computer.

[Seabass03]

DirectX 9 = doesn't matter right now and for a while with most games.

ATI's drivers works wonders in Planetside and most other games now. I would get a 9500 Pro at newegg for 177 shipped and blow everything away except 5800 Ultras or 9700s or 9800s

[EODTech]

I'm waiting for the ATI 9800 PRO, I already got the money saved.
Hopefully have one sometime next month.

[BigDickMccoy]

I have a GeForce mTi4200 128
And it Smokes my little brothers radeon 9500