Ati 9800 Pro vs. 9000 Pro

[Hajo]

Ohio

If shopping for mobo/cpu combos and good prices.

Not to mention vid crds etc.

For mobo/cpu combos I always get mine here..
BzBoyz.com

For memory, towers, vid cards and sound cards.

Tigerdirect.com
newegg.com

You can compare prices, with any of the above 3 sites you can't go wrong.

[AmRaaM]

9600 earlier unit and maybe the extasy units can be tweaked to perform at 9800xt rates. Pencile carbon and/or software tweaks are avail.

[Roscoroo]

Originally posted by humble
All the 9550's I see currently are 128 mg ones...Ohio...based on roscos post I'd upgrade to a 256 mg 9550 first then upgrade the CPU/MB/RAM if you dont get enough additional "pop" to meet your needs...

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-131-243&depa=0

$80 at new egg

its a great mid range card and its a 256ddr  with the 9600 gpu in it ...  the 9600pro 128mb card is around the same price also these days ...    but as for prformance between the 2 (yes i have bolth cards ) Id say the difference is very minimal I cant really tell except for 80 vs 85 peak fps in ah2 and farcry plays very close to the same with the grafics cranked ...  i'm just suggesting these 2 cards cause of your price range and I know they work ... other wise id say step up to a 9800pro/5900 or 6800 /x800  card .

I myself will upgrade to the 6800 next year when the prices get cut in half on them ...i cant afford 400 for a vc either.

[acetnt367th]

On the ati website, if you have any old graphic card, you could trade it for a 50 credit to a

RADEON 9600 XT 128MB AGP card

cost will be $119 dollars. Then you could ebay the 9000 for a few more bucks. You may not get a lot though.

Only problem right now is the card is temporarily out of stock but should be in the near future


Acetnt

http://shop.ati.com/tradeup.asp