128 or 256

[Ozzit]

I decided to buy a Sapphire Radeon 9600XT Atlantis
But when i look on the prices the Sapphire Radeon 9600XT Atlantis 256 Mb did only cost 5$ more!?!
Is is the same card bot only more menory why is it only 5$ more expensive?
Is it any bad thing with 256 Mb or what???

 

[cleeve]

256 megs is useless on a 9600 PRO, and in most cases the memory used with 256 meg cards is cheaper so it doesn't overclock as well...

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[HardWareBoss]

Buy the 128. 256 waste of money even thou $5 more.

 

[Spitfire_x86]

Stay away from 256 MB

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[sargeduck]

Agreed, stay away from 256. But definetly get 512 MB of ram on your video card. 256 is just a marketing gimmick, but 512, that's where the real deal is.

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[sargeduck]

LOL, I'm just kidding. There is no 512.....yet.
I agree with the others, just get the 128.

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[HardWareBoss]

The heck with 512 get 1Gig.

 

[coolsquirtle]

poof 1Gb is for NOOBS!!!

The GeForce 5 SX1 SUPERDUPERUltra edition, there's no build in ram, it's two ram sockets and u can put it what ever u want!!!


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[Nights_L]

hey..but that's a 9600XT..could it still be bad?

 

[Ozzit]

Cheaper memory?
On Saphires homepage they say this:
128MB/256MB DDR high performance two-channel DDR memory interface accelerates the latest 3D applications

Is it not the same memory then???
Is it any more reason to not buy 256?

 

[scottchen]

Well, if you think they're the same then buy it. Even though there's a high possibility that the 256megs aren't even BGA memory.

-Intel PIV 2.6C @ 3.575G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 275mhz 3-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800np @ 432/760 -SB audigy -120G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 S-ATA150 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[cleeve]

High performance is a marketing term, and completely meaningless. How high performance? What if they consider 200Mhz high performance?

There's a reason the cards are only $5 apart. They cut costs somewhere...

If you want the 256 megs, get it. If you're running at stock speeds, and it's a pro, I'm sure it'll be fine. But if you plan to overclock, you will regret the decision.

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[shadus]

If you were going with a 9800XT I'd say go 256 (it would be a touch more future proof perhaps-- even that is somewhat doubtful), but with the 9600XT there is no real reason to and there is a high probability that the card will use slower ram for the 256mb version than for the 128mb version.

Just as a side point everyone, I saw a geforcefx 5200 non-ultra with 256mb of ram the other day... talk about a total and complete waste and failure.

Shadus

 

[HardWareBoss]

You have one of those babys?

 

[HardWareBoss]

Just to make more money for nvidia.

 

[Phetar]

So what if it's a 9800 Pro, and you don't plan to overclock. Is the extra memory really worth the extra cash? Especially if you don't plan on OCing.
I always thought excessive amounts of memory was neccessary only for professionals...but that was also back in the days of 3dfx and Voodoo5 and 64MB was the new thing. So who knows what excessive means now anyway

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by phetar on 11/07/03 07:20 PM.</EM></FONT></P>