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Tom's Hardware seems to sum up my position pretty well: " The performance increase between the Radeon 9600 XT and its predecessor, the 9600 Pro, is very small. HardOCP kind of agrees with me, although they think the 9600XT is must-have unless you already have a 9600 Pro, or something similar. Here's some links you might find helpful:ĪnandTech's October 2003 Video Card Price Guides But since anything that would make really good use of a high-end card isn't on the market yet, I figure that's a safe assumption. Of course, this is all assuming you're in the market for a mid-range card, and not a high-end card. Or at least not enough to warrant an extra $50. As far as I can tell, there isn't much difference in the performance.
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Actually, most of them say to get a 9600 XT (especially if you were planning on getting Half Life 2 anyways) but not until the price drops down to <$150, which is what the 9600 Pro is at right now. My last two have been custom.īeing in the market for a new graphics card myself, I figure I'll throw in my two cents:Īt least, that's what all of my poking around at the various hardware review sites seem to indicate.
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My cases have two intake fans, even if the filters are a bit caked with cat hair.įor the last thirteen years or so I have used nothing but PC Power&Cooling supplies. I am not worried about extra cooling for the 9600XT, but I might be for the 9800 Pro or XT. I wish the GeForce could have waited a few more days to die. Nice price, considering what they want for the 9800XT!įar be it from me to engage in rumor mongering, but I read tonight on that the real 9600XT parts that just went into production are significantly higher performance than the ones on the boards that were pre-reviewed in the last two days. You can get them for as little as 5$.I looked at the newegg site as well as saphire. I like the Allied ATX400P4 w/ Two Fans for $30.Īlso, for any Graphics card, unless your case has a fan (or 2) that blows air over your PCI/AGP slot area I would suggest a PCI slot fan to blow air right onto your AGP card. A good 350W or 400W power supply is not all that spendy. Just be sure you have the Power Supply to support all your stuff. I'm also adding on a Thermaltake "Blue Orb" GPU cooler for $8. Kandrathe,Oct 17 2003, 08:57 PM Wrote:I just ordered this Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB from for $301. There's also the option of using Foxbat's D2 Accelerator to reduce some graphical effects and help slower systems cope with the game. You can even survive Shenk's fireworks if you have enough system RAM. All that lag around Diablo's pentagram, A2 Tyrael, or A3 rivers will be gone in a snap. This should improve your D2 performance significantly without any drawback. Before you persue a video card upgrade, consider switching the game to DirectDraw mode instead of Direct3D. Something to keep in mind with D2 is that it was designed to work with Glide, so an old Vodoo card will actually outperform any Radeon or GeForce you can purchase today. If budget is any concern to you, I would stick with a Radeon 9600 Pro, either from a good manufacturer with proper fail safes, or go with the Ultimate version at a small premium. New hardware like this isn't going to come cheap of course.
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overclock when cool, software rendering when hot).
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Thermal sensors, by the way, are integrated into the new Radeon XTs I heard, and future Catalyst drivers are supposed to take advantage of them with automatic throttle control (i.e. You should expect any decent video card to have protection against an eventual fan failure, and the best ones will have thermal sensors too. Purchasing a card from a good manufacturer would also work of course. This can be a good choice if you want to build a silent computer or just don't want to rely on mortal fan bearings. Radeon cards generally run at a lower temperature than GeForce cards, and their "Ultimate" versions are actually designed with passive cooling.