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Title: Is any1 using the Radeon 64MByte DDR?
Post by: gatt on February 23, 2001, 04:41:00 AM

Is it good? Thx for any hint.

Title: Is any1 using the Radeon 64MByte DDR?
Post by: Staga on February 23, 2001, 05:07:00 AM

I'm interested too; 64megs DDR Radeon ViVo's price went down big time here.
Its price here went from 370$ to under 200$ in one week  (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/Smileys/default/smile.gif)

Title: Is any1 using the Radeon 64MByte DDR?
Post by: Skuzzy on February 23, 2001, 11:48:00 AM

Yep,...been using it for several months.  Very nice under Win98SE.  Not the fastest board, but by far and away the best board ATI has ever done.
Performance is comparable to a GeForce2 GTS Pro 64MB.  The GeForce2 GTS Pro is only slightly faster.

I would recommend an 800Mhz CPU or faster to get the most out of it though.  

In my benchmarking the Radeon scales well at various resolutions, in terms of performance.

The GeForce GTS Pro and Ultra cards blow it away for 16bit color depths, but the Radeon does not give anything away in 32bit color mode, with the GeForce Ultra card beating it out, but not by much.

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Title: Is any1 using the Radeon 64MByte DDR?
Post by: snafu on February 23, 2001, 02:23:00 PM

Yes I'm using it (Non VIVO) . No complaints at all, Loaded 1st time, Not spotted any glitches, tearing or such, 32 bit colour looks great and the FSAA is solid. In short well pleased..

My monitor lets me down (V old 21 inch Hitachi Max 60 htz @ 1600 * 1200, so frame rates never get spectacular - But then again they dont move much either. Even in heavy smoke - Stay around 60 very rare to get below 52)

Win98SE
Athlon 1 gig
256mb ram

TTFN
snafu

[This message has been edited by snafu (edited 02-23-2001).]