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View Poll Results: 9500 or 9700?
9500 Pro for $178 5 38.46%
9700 Pro for $302 8 61.54%
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Old 2003-03-29, 06:41 PM   [Ignore Me] #1
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Unhappy I just cant pick one!!!!


I have been trying to decide which video card to go with. I have been debating for about 2 weeks now. Should i buy a 9500 Pro now for $178 or buy the 9700 Pro for $302 on April first. They are both good cards, and I need one of the 2 for PS. They both run PS, but I just dont know if the difference between them is great enough to pay an extra $100 for the "better" one. That is in quotes because i know it is better, but better for the price difference. Please leave feedback!!!!
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Old 2003-03-29, 07:03 PM   [Ignore Me] #2
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For $150 you aren't going to get that much better gameplay from 9700.
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Old 2003-03-29, 07:16 PM   [Ignore Me] #3
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the 9700Pro will be noticeably better in higher res' with AA/AF without A/AF the Radeon 9500Pro is your card

depemds if you want it to run games with full graphics in the top resolutions
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Old 2003-03-29, 10:53 PM   [Ignore Me] #4
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What is AA/AF?
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Old 2003-03-30, 01:52 AM   [Ignore Me] #5
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Anti-Aliasing / Anisotrophic Filtering. The former refers to the method of "blending" pixels in an image together to soften it (I.E. get rid of those annoying jaggies that a lot of games sometimes have.) Anisotrophic Filtering is a method of filtering textures when they're rendered onto a polygon, and it can increase the quality of textures at a distance and when viewed from an angle.

The implementation for both on the Radeon 9700 PRO is insane. It is the best in the industry, period. Most cards get bogged down when Anti-Aliasing is used, and when both AA and AF are used framerates plummet. The 9700 PRO takes barely any hit at all from anti-aliasing (partially due to the way the card does it), and at lower resolutions practically no performance hit at all from AF.

Frankly, Timormi, if you have the money to burn go for a 9700 PRO. 'Tis the holy grail. You won't be disappointed with it if you use it.
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Old 2003-03-30, 02:42 AM   [Ignore Me] #6
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youve just convenced me to save na extra 60$ and buy the ati radeo 9700 pro
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Old 2003-03-30, 01:24 PM   [Ignore Me] #7
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i need more feedback!!!!
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Old 2003-03-30, 01:26 PM   [Ignore Me] #8
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What more do you want to know? We can tell you a lot, if you'd just tell us what you're interested in.
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Old 2003-03-30, 02:47 PM   [Ignore Me] #9
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Radeon 9700 pro....

Why, whitout listing alott of technical reasons...

There is no substitute for raw power =)
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Old 2003-03-30, 02:53 PM   [Ignore Me] #10
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Timormi - Post your system specs. That might help us with your decision. If you have a weak processor, it may be pointless to spend the extra money to get the 9700 Pro.

But I can tell you, with my 9700 Pro, in BF1942 I rarely go below 85 FPS and I usually stay steady around 95.
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Old 2003-03-30, 03:35 PM   [Ignore Me] #11
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System:

AMD XP 1900+ 1.61 GHz
512 SDRAM DDR-SDRAM


thats prolly all you need to know, but if there is more just tell me.
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Old 2003-03-30, 03:36 PM   [Ignore Me] #12
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9700 pro for you.... you have the hardware to use it for what its worth
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Old 2003-03-30, 03:53 PM   [Ignore Me] #13
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awsome!!! im purchasing one tomorrow. Thanx for all your help guys!!! You can still post your thought, cuz i will still pay attention to what you guys say.


thanx again!
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Old 2003-03-30, 04:24 PM   [Ignore Me] #14
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thanks for all the info its helped me to il proabbly end up buyign one when i get enough saved up
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Old 2003-03-30, 04:40 PM   [Ignore Me] #15
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For some more information on the card from my favorite review site (and they're quite non-biased):

The Review: http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardwa...00/default.asp

Review of an alternate version of the card (reccomended!): http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardwa...00/default.asp

An article on how the 9700 PRO's method of Anti-Aliasing works (good read even for the vets): http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/multisamp/ (EDIT: ah, pardon. I was under the impression that the 9700 PRO uses Fragment Anti-Aliasing. It does, in fact, use multi-sampling AA. For the Fragment AA article, go here: http://firingsquad.gamers.com/guides...aa/default.asp )
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