7600GS OR 9800XT

[Malaga93]

Which is better?

 

[Dudeson]

actually the 9xxx series was the first series of cards to support directX 9. obviously a 7600gs is newer and has higher clock speeds with newer technology so therefore it is better. i owned a 9800xt until about 6 months ago. played everything fine,i loved it. The 7600gs might be on par with maybe an x800pro??

 

[rammedstein]

despite the 9800xt being the best card for its day, the 7600gs wins, due to more pipes, higher clocks and better memory.

 

[Malaga93]

mpilchfamily you didn't know that 9800 is DX9 card it's a shame that a forum master don't know that the first DX9 card was 9700 & 9800 series.

 

[Dudeson]

i know that you could pick up a 9800xt for maybe $100 aus nd the 7600gs for maybe $240 aus but really there is no point as everyone here has said the 7600gs wins. lol mpilchfamily may not remember the good old days where ATI blitzed nvidia with the first dx9 cards. haha, its about to happen with dx10 now!

 

[Dade_0182]

Don't worry mpilchfamily, you pwn anyone here with your PSU knowledge. The 9200 was still directx 8.1. I had one coz I didn't know what I was buying. Was still like "I got a 128MB graphics card!!!". Man I was such a NOOB!

 

[blade85]

Don't worry mpilchfamily, you pwn anyone here with your PSU knowledge. The 9200 was still directx 8.1. I had one coz I didn't know what I was buying. Was still like "I got a 128MB graphics card!!!". Man I was such a NOOB!

hahaha I think a lot of us went through that stage

I replaced my ati 9200 card with what at that time i though sounded cool...a geforce 4 mx440....

thats right....i read geforce 4 and said hey..this is good. Little did i know how crap that card really is :roll: :lol: :lol:

good thing i managed to sell it soon after for the same price...close call

 

[Dade_0182]

I did it the other way around. Also had an Geforce 4 MX440 but it overheated and took the mobo with it as well.

If it was the TI the great but the DAMN MX!!! The box looked so cool and all the things written on the box sounded so cool when I didn't know anything back then...The one company where I was this weekend still sells FX5500's 8O

 

[Dade_0182]

Yeah, that was the rival of the 9200 but was DX9. I remember some of my friends mocking me coz they had "faster cards" because of DX9. I got a 5700 a while after that to make up for my mistake, then a 6600GT, then my 7600GS and yesterday finally switched over to PCI-E with my X1650PRO...

 

[Dudeson]

i had an 8500, then uprgraded to a 9200, i thought the same as Dade_0182 lol, 128mb thats awesome. and then i wondered why my friends 9800pro was better even though they ahd the same amount of vram lol, super NOOB. but then i got a fx5200, what a piece of crap. palyed bf2 on lowest settings at 30frames.

 

[Glacier]

Don't worry mpilchfamily, you pwn anyone here with your PSU knowledge. The 9200 was still directx 8.1. I had one coz I didn't know what I was buying. Was still like "I got a 128MB graphics card!!!". Man I was such a NOOB!

Heh, I went through that noob stage with the first computer that I bought. It had a Radeon 7200 installed on it. Since I didn't know beans about computers at the time, I actually thought that was a top notch card. About two weeks later, I installed Knights of the Old Republic. I couldn't figure out why the game played so poorly, until I looked at the system requirements on the box. Talk about feeling like a total fool...

 

[blade85]

lol

9200 -> mx440 -> 9200 again -> 9800 pro -> 7800GS -> x1950 pro

 

[Dade_0182]

My friend is still stuck on the noob stage. He can't figure out why his 7300GT 512MB runs slower than my X1650PRO...His wife still has a 9200SE in. All she plays is sims2. She can't stop complaining about the thing running like a dog though...

 

[blade85]

tell him to spend $50 and upgrade both pc's :roll:

 

[lunyone]

lol

9200 -> mx440 -> 9200 again -> 9800 pro -> 7800GS -> x1950 pro

Lets see if mine is worse:
8mb Voodoo Banshee>16mb Voodoo 2000 (EQ1 basher!)> 128mb 9600xt> 128mb 9800pro> 128mb x1800xt

 

[blade85]

lol

9200 -> mx440 -> 9200 again -> 9800 pro -> 7800GS -> x1950 pro

Lets see if mine is worse:
8mb Voodoo Banshee>16mb Voodoo 2000 (EQ1 basher!)> 128mb 9600xt> 128mb 9800pro> 128mb x1800xt

thyats not bad...atleast you didnt have to go back wards :lol: :lol:

 

[stemnin]

Does the 9800 have SM3.0?

 

[Dade_0182]

He's too stupid to try and talk sense into. He would rather buy his wife another 1GB of ram for her 2.4 celeron with the 9200 than to upgrade the card. According to him, ram is the most important thing for games...I'm a damn patient guy and even I can't get the facts through to him...

 

[blade85]

He's too stupid to try and talk sense into. He would rather buy his wife another 1GB of ram for her 2.4 celeron with the 9200 than to upgrade the card. According to him, ram is the most important thing for games...I'm a damn patient guy and even I can't get the facts through to him...

haha

point him to this forum :lol: :lol:

we'll knock some sense into him :lol: :lol: :twisted:

 

[Dade_0182]

The only internet he's got is through his cellphone via bluetooth. He's not a big reader though so I don't know if he'll come here even if I give him my wireless...I at least got him to buy a C2D E6300 and let me OC it but he couldn't use it for a week or two because he didn't have money because he had to buy 3GB of ram for his pc...

 

[blade85]

Does the 9800 have SM3.0?

no the 9800 pro doesnt have SM3.0


3 gigs of ram?? what for?? does he do alot of video editing and some major photoshoping???

Last time i checked 2 gigs was a good number for most things.

 

[Dade_0182]

He only plays games and runs good old xp pro. He has no antivirus or anything that might even take his rig past 1 gig of ram required...

 

[rodney_ws]

mpilchfamily you didn't know that 9800 is DX9 card it's a shame that a forum master don't know that the first DX9 card was 9700 & 9800 series.

Show him some god damned respect. No one is perfect.

 

[Malaga93]

I don't meant to disrespect him, his knowledge in psu is huge maybe he forgot maybe is not his area, i have huge respect for him.

I love how we all went out of topic!

 

[Dade_0182]

I don't meant to disrespect him, his knowledge in psu is huge maybe he forgot maybe is not his area, i have huge respect for him.

I love how we all went out of topic!

The point was made, the 9800 is prehistoric. A great card for it's time but right now it's basically prehistoric so there's no problem with going off topic now is there?