ATI or Geforce ,a Gammers choice.

[Evl_Gunner]

Hello and thanks for taking the time to help out.
note:I'm a Hardcore online gammer
with that aside my question is :
I currently have a Radeon ATI 7000 VE 64mb duel display AGP card , i have had no problem with this card works great in everything i do. makeing maps to kicking a$$ & takeing names. i just revamped my system and need your help in decieding weather or not i should pull the ATI, hate to do that to my new system,running to great to get it s.n.a.f.u
"the wrench"
i picked up a used (free)but 0 clean, creative 3D Annihilator Pro (geforce256 powered)32mb ddr, heres a link 4spec's http://www.americas.creative.com/support/specs/hardware.asp?Centric=56&sub=91&SearchSite=
I have had meny agp cards "Meny" if not 80% out there and this one is on my hit list,problem is i need your help on knowning the "fact" "whats the better card."
........Pros & cons.......
32mb AGP geforce256 Annihilator Pro has :
1)Four rendering pipelines capable of delivering four pixels per clock .
2)Transform and Lighting (T&L) Engine

Radeon ATI 7000 VE 64mb duel display :
Does not.!
AS a "want it all and cant afford $cash$ for it all"
im stuck with "What i got" heh
hope you can help in makeing up my mind.

 

[Ghostdog]

If you´re really a hardcore online-gamer, you should ditch both. Really, you can get very decent cards for quite cheap these days. GeForce 3´s and radeon 8500´s.

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[AndrewT]

The 256 is a first generation Geforce card isn't it? No idea about the 7000, you can look the benches and see which one does better.

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[Unit01]

if it's a gf1 ddr it's around a gf2mx200 performance
if it's sdr it's around tnt ultra a little above performance
I'm not sure about the tradeon though :/
7000 VE? what?

 

[Parhelia]

Ive tested the radeon700ve 64mb, it really realy sucks.
teh geforce2mx is faster, and the geforce256ddr, has better quality and performance than the geforce2mx, soooooooo go with the annihilator...

 

[Spitfire_x86]

GeForce 256 DDR is much faster than Radeon 7000 (VE).

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[LtBlue14]

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[Crashman]

"VE" means "Cheapest Version", it's comparable to an MX200 or TNT2-128. So the 256 should be faster.

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[Earthdog]

Just my opinion, but anything less than a Geforce 2 Ultra is a waste of space. As someone else stated, the price of cards is really low right now (or something like that).

Geforce4 ti4200 cards are becoming very affordable. Geforce 4 MX 440 cards are so affordable its kind of rediculous to buy anything less.

Also, if you have a new system with anything faster than 1.5 Ghz anything less than a TI4200 is a waste. Geforce 256 cards become the bottleneck on any system faster than a 700MHz CPU. If you've recently bought, say, a P4 1.8 GHz you'll really need to look toward a ti4200, minimum.

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[Evl_Gunner]

thanks for all your help nice to have a place like this, good advice Parhelia, i agree im going with the geforce, and here are my two cards ive tested ,
RADEON™ VE a.k.a RADEON 7000 64mb sdramm) DUAL DISPLAY EDITION
T.v out(s-cable)
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3D Blaster Annihilator Pro,32MB DDRRAM high-performance
350 MHz Palette-DAC
CT6970 (3D Blaster Annihilator Pro)

 

[Evl_Gunner]

The 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro, kicks the ATI ass when it comes to games, im glad i made the change.

 

[icy_oblivion]

If ATI holds to what they advertise they will give you some money back for the Radeon 7000 VE if you are buying another card from them. I'm not sure how much cash they actually refund you for old cards, but you might want to look into it and try to get a Radeon 8500, not the LE version.

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