Author Topic: Anyone Know Anything About Video Cards? (Read 2864 times)

Anonymous · « **Reply #30 on:** September 15, 2004, 07:21:25 pm »

Powercolor Radeon 9200 SE, 68 bucks on newegg

Anonymous · « **Reply #31 on:** September 15, 2004, 07:33:30 pm »

Oh man. You bought an SE? Go out and buy another one now.....theres a reason those are so cheap compared to the other cards. At least a regular 9600 or 9800 if your gonna buy a card, because games arent lowering in specs.

Anonymous · « **Reply #32 on:** September 15, 2004, 08:01:37 pm »

whats the difference between an se and...something else....?

Anonymous · « **Reply #33 on:** September 15, 2004, 08:18:21 pm »

Well, from personal experiance, the SE is a bunch of problems that doesnt stack up to a normal card in the series.

9600 S.E<<<9600<<9600 PRO<9600 XT

That the basic pattern for any of the ATI series, not including all the oddball saphire versions. Id have to say, go for a Geforce if your actually gonna pay for an SE, as even though I dislike both, the geforce will do a lot better in every aspect possible basically.

But Im not as knoweldgeable as some of these others guys, so I cant give you all the nitty gritty.

Anonymous · « **Reply #34 on:** September 15, 2004, 08:56:45 pm »

well if i could get something better, i would believe me

Anonymous · « **Reply #35 on:** September 20, 2004, 08:53:25 pm »

Quote from: "Ozurr"

well if I could get something better, I would believe me

I am feeling your pain.

I've had to spend $$$$$$$$ on household stuff (New bed, Daughters Choir) I hadn't planned on. I needed a new card quick, but needed to think $$$. I had to settle.

I got an ATI 9200 PCI w. 128mb. It works. I had Dx 8, and had to upgrade to Dx 9. *WITH* tax....about 92$. A slight bit less than the same card w. overnight shipping on Newegg.

An overnight of the 9600 XT I was looking at would have been 180$ (Tax, shipping...). I wasn't going to have the money for about a week, maybe two...and I darn sure didnt want to wait that long. So I comprimised. In the store I went to, it would have been more. So, I basically matched NewEgg locally and got something that works. I can deal.

For grins, I *tried* on my older vid card...no dice. Couldn't move the mouse to even select gender for my RSI. So I went shopping.

I run dual monitors, now I have one card for each screen. By January (or anytime after we get back from our cruise) I can likely save up for something a LOT closer to an x800 ( Heck, it could BE an x800, if I ask Santa nice enough. She usually hooks me up.) Then I have something with a bit more torque in my AGP slot and something ......well, better than my old card...for my second monitor.

I'm all out of "Mad Money", but I have a plan.