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tijmen007   10-01-2008 at 08:38:59 PM

I'm now a proud owner of a HD4670, but I now may choose between the HD3850 or GF9600GT. My father got those two cards from his work for free :lol: i may choose one and he will use the other one. I've seen some benchmarks of them, but i'm wondering if the 9600gt will still out preform the HD3850 later on, due the ammount of stream processors in the 3850, alot more than the 9600GT. I like to play games with 8x AA and 8x AF, @ 1280x1024 60Hz.
I've got a nvidia chipset, i don't know if it will make a diffrence but my motherboard is a M2n-MX, and my psu 650 watt, with one 6 pin pci-e connector.

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vochtige   10-01-2008 at 08:59:15 PM
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go with the 9600GT! don't doubt

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Bronze Graphics badge coozie7   10-01-2008 at 09:12:46 PM
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9600 GT

Am I spotting the beginnings of a pattern here? :)

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IH8U   10-01-2008 at 09:14:20 PM
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Stay with the 4670, ESPECIALLY if you have a Crossfire motherboard. (Unlike nVidia, you CAN use 2 different series cards, as long as they are X-Fireable)

Either way it goes, the 4670 OWNS the 9600, and the 3850. Save both for budget builds later (or spares, as cards do burn out). And if between the 9600, or the 3850, I'd go with the 9600.

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Monsta   10-01-2008 at 09:19:26 PM
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He has an Nvidia Chipset with only one PCIe x 16 slot, he couldn't possibly crossfire it on that mobo , stick to the 9600 GT

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tomasf   10-01-2008 at 09:22:21 PM
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IH8U wrote :

Stay with the 4670, ESPECIALLY if you have a Crossfire motherboard. (Unlike nVidia, you CAN use 2 different series cards, as long as they are X-Fireable)

Either way it goes, the 4670 OWNS the 9600, and the 3850. Save both for budget builds later (or spares, as cards do burn out). And if between the 9600, or the 3850, I'd go with the 9600.



the op just said his board has Nvidia chipset, and the 9600gt is better than the 4670

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tijmen007   10-01-2008 at 09:28:36 PM
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thanks for all the reply's, but can anyone explain what the functions are of the steam processors? Cause the 9600 gt has less than the halve of the HD3/4xxx.

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Dekasav   10-02-2008 at 06:17:23 AM
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Don't worry about that. Nvidia and ATI count stream processors as different things. ATi counts simple stream processors, and Nvidia counts complex ones, it takes 5 of ATi's stream processors to roughly equal 1 of Nvidia's. 9600GT is a little better than the 4670, and the HD 3850 DIES with AA on.

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rdb   10-02-2008 at 02:31:02 PM
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I would stay with the 4670.

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pauldh   10-02-2008 at 04:05:33 PM
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Forget the HD3850 as it will be the weakest with fsaa cranked like you desire. +1 9600GT vote; it is typically ahead of the 4670. Had it been a 9600GSO not GT, I'd say it's a toss-up so stay with your card.

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dagger   10-03-2008 at 12:41:54 AM
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pauldh wrote :

Forget the HD3850 as it will be the weakest with fsaa cranked like you desire. +1 9600GT vote; it is typically ahead of the 4670. Had it been a 9600GSO not GT, I'd say it's a toss-up so stay with your card.



9600gso is still ahead of 4670, just not as much as 9600gt. And yes, 9600gt is the best among the 3.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews [...] 70/26.html

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pauldh   10-03-2008 at 01:13:49 AM
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dagger wrote :

9600gso is still ahead of 4670, just not as much as 9600gt. And yes, 9600gt is the best among the 3.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews [...] 70/26.html


Yeah, That's generally my view too. It is by such a small margin IMO that I wouldn't say he should make the swap had it been a GSO. Nor would I bother to argue one is clearly better than the other as it just depends on the game, resolution, and settings. Most reviews show them trading blows, some put them about even, others the 9600GSO edges out a win. They look fairly even here:
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardwar [...] /page5.asp
http://hothardware.com/Articles/AT [...] m/?page=11


Message edited by pauldh on 10-03-2008 at 01:19:17 AM
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Artas1984   02-22-2009 at 06:55:44 PM
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HD4670 is only good at standart or low resolutions, otherwise it's a piece crap and geats heavily stopmed eve nby X1950XT.

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invisik   02-22-2009 at 07:03:07 PM
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9600gt!
that card oc great. =p

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