i just recently spent my savings on computer upgrades.
2.8 AMD Athlon
Raedeon 9600xt
768 mb memory
Phillips Sonic Edge 5.1
5.1 Zalman headphones

the 9800 xt is weak now...wait till the bigger more powerfull games come out...if u just got the 9800xt now..u should of got the new ati or nvidia cards...

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Last edited by tc-fan on Sep-01-2004 at 18:40

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Originally posted by tc-fan the 9800 xt is weak now...wait till the bigger more powerfull games come out...if u just got the 9800xt now..u should of got the new ati or nvidia cards...

I disagree, its always better to buy slightly older stuff, as 'next-gen' stuff is not priced in accordance with performance increase.

where a 9800 pro can be £130, the £280 X800 pro will NOT give you a 100%+ increase in performance in line with the price diff.

9800 pro or XT is still plenty capable to handle most things thrown at it, they are the best bang for buck cards at the mo.

I could never justify spending £300 JUST on gfx, I got my 9800 pro for £105

However, the guy got a 9600 xt, which performs worse than the 9800 pro for pretty much the same price...

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Originally posted by kr00t0n I disagree, its always better to buy slightly older stuff, as 'next-gen' stuff is not priced in accordance with performance increase. where a 9800 pro can be £130, the £280 X800 pro will NOT give you a 100%+ increase in performance in line with the price diff. 9800 pro or XT is still plenty capable to handle most things thrown at it, they are the best bang for buck cards at the mo. I could never justify spending £300 JUST on gfx, I got my 9800 pro for £105 However, the guy got a 9600 xt, which performs worse than the 9800 pro for pretty much the same price...

True that! Its great when a new series comes out because all the existing cards come down in price.

The problem will be the RAM. In the future, no- actually now with doom3 & Half Life 2 it has be suggested that video card with need 512mb on board! At the moment the cards only have 256mb max. We'll have to wait another year for PCI Express to fully develop anyway to get the best potential.

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well, they dont NEED 512, its just that's what would be needed for the game to perform on max video settings and still be playable.

they made doom3 kinda backwards compatible, I played it fine on my system at 1024x768, high detail settings, looked nice enough and was smooth to play, but they wanted to set the standard (and are prolly in cahoots with gfx card manufacturers to increase the next-gen sales) and allow for the game to still be played in a few years time.

think about games from 2000, played on a 2004 system, some of them look crap even on the highest everything settings

I shudder to think how much 512MB cards will cost

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