Large PCI video card review

Thanks, my brother's shopping for a PCI card. I promised to help--my part's done after I forward him this link!

btw, is that Dan Akroid or does the author just look like him?

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The most interesting thing about that review is the poor performance of the FX5600PCI. People would be better off saving their money and buying the FX5200 or R9100. he few times the FX5600 wins the benchmarks it's by such a small margin as to not be worth any premium. I wonder if the AA/AF would change that (or whether it would even be worth it).

All in all I would say the clear winners are the FX5200/R9100 depending on price.


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I enjoyed your review Dinney, the Radeon 9100 made an especially good showing, even when put up against the FX5600 PCI. I'm glad my old PCI Radeon 7000 64MB was of good use to you. BTW, are for sure it was a Sapphire? I thought it was a "Built-by-ATI" but I never really payed much attention to that sort of thing back then?

Dinney, does your lastname originate from a Slavic country? I was just wondering because that name sounds unfamiliar. Oh, & nice review again

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Yep, my last name is Czech.

Yes, the 7000 64m was a BBA card, but the 32mb 7000 was a Sapphire refurb that I got from Newegg.

Glad you liked it.

Yep, you're right. The 7000's got mixed up in the VGA comparison chart. Everything else about the cards is correct, just the name is switched around. Nice find. Neither I nor anyone else had seen that.

umm, not sure. maybe somewhere between 30-45. not too many.

It's apparently less than 25.

My OS features preemptive multitasking, a fully interactive command line, & support for 640K of RAM!

"...It's apparently less than 25..."

Ummm, ok.

Ok, cool. Wasn't sure what you meant. On some forums, if you have a low post count, what you say is not important, or doesn't carry as much weight as someone with an ungodly post count. :| Sorry, didn't mean to go all defensive on you.

No, I have alot of trust in what you say Mloot. In fact did you know that your review was posted on Tom's Hardware Guide's Frontpage in the "Hard News" section?

My OS features preemptive multitasking, a fully interactive command line, & support for 640K of RAM!

Let me go find the link, I'll be back as soon as I can.

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Thanks for the link!

we arent like that here


if someone makes a really well done post , then we will reply to it, doesnt matter if you have 3 or 5500 post count


same goes for stupid ones.. hehe MOST of the stupid ones are made by the regulars





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