Author Topic: Cheap and powerfull; Part Deux  (Read 204 times)

Offline Staga

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Cheap and powerfull; Part Deux
« on: August 14, 2002, 10:45:19 AM »
Got a Hercules Prophet 8500 LE video card (=Ati Radeon 8500LE) and thought it would be nice to see how it works against MSI Gf4Ti4200 I also have. Both tests were done without overclocking cards.

Both benchmarks are done in same computer thought mobo changed between tests, AMD 1,4GHz TB / 768mb ddr-ram / IBM GXP75 / Audigy Player soundcard.

In Pricewatch Gf4Ti4200 is about 130$ and Radeon 8500 about 90$ and when it performs almost as good as Gf4Ti4200 I would say it's a good buy.

Yellow bar is Hercules Prophet 8500LE and orange is MSI Gf4Ti4200.

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Cheap and powerfull; Part Deux
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2002, 03:15:02 PM »
Another plus is that the Radeon has better 2d image quality.

It's worth mentioning that the 4200 GeForce 4s can be pushed to the speed of a 4400 card easy though...

I scored a 10644, which was up from the stock 9500 or so.