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You get a free copy of Call of Duty with the purchase of a Nvidia 5900SE card this holiday season.
Not bad, the best game I've played this year.. and the best part, its not a coupon for a piece of vapor ware!

The 5900SE is the same thing as the new XT 5900, both are only have 2.8ns ram vs 2.2 on the regular 5900NUs.
I still say the 5900NU (any variation) is the best value on the market right now as 9800NPs have dried up incredibly fast.
With this deal going on its certainly the thing to get if your looking for a new graphics card.
They are supposedly priced at under 200 American.

Call of Duty is impressive, I anticipated this one up until its release because I just had a feeling it was going to be great.
It was a good game to take the bad taste Halo had put in my mouth!

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bad taste....halo.....Are you from the alien protection agency?

If you dont like halo you either
1-do not have a good computer
2-dont like playing fps
3-are from the alien protection agency
4-are a grunt
5-or you just simply ... suck

My own beast: Athlon 2700xp+ (oc: 3200xp+ with 200fsb) , Radeon 9800pro (oc: 410/370) , 512mb ddr400. SO MUCH faster than my last computer (pIII 550......)<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by coylter on 12/16/03 01:05 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
 
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Maybe that is what ATI will do with the XT models once Half Life 2 officially comes out. Till then, you get the vouchers and pray that you dont get screwed when you can get it.

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I'm curious why you'd say the 5900NU cards are the best value. Where I am the 9800 Pro cards are the same price as the 5900NU cards. Only the slower 5900NU cards with slow memory are cheaper but then they probably only perform as good as a 5700 Ultra anyways which is even cheaper. I'd much prefer to get a Nvidia card for compatibility reasons but as far as price/performance ratio the ATI cards are best value.
 
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I'm not sure where you're getting your ideas about the 5900SE, since from what I have seen the 5900SE blows away the 5700U and, in most of today's games, the 9600XT.

Right now on Newegg:
5900SE: $196 (was $185 yesterday)
9800np: $265
9600XT: $172
5700U: $189

Aside from the rather unlikely event that suddenly the 9600XT is going to become faster than a 5900SE in most/all of the future games, the 5900SE is a good value at its price point.
 
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They are being discontinued.
Do I sound like an NV salesman?? :smile:
I've certainly turned into an NV fan over the years since 3dfx went to bit heaven. Not to be confused with the infamous, fanatical fan 'boi'.

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I like Halo, I just dont like it on PC.
Feels dated, and it is.
I just prefer COD on all accounts (multi/single player/the efficient-ness of the 3d engine) so I have fully retired my copy of Halo.

Wouldve been one of my favorite games had it been released even just a year ago. COD took alot of its shine away for me at least.

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I'm curious why you'd say the 5900NU cards are the best value. Where I am the 9800 Pro cards are the same price as the 5900NU cards.
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Wherever you live, I would certainly then suggest getting the 9800 Pro, you'd be a fool otherwise.

Only the slower 5900NU cards with slow memory are cheaper but then they probably only perform as good as a 5700 Ultra anyways which is even cheaper.
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I'm not sure if the 5900s with the slightly slower mem are clocked lower, or they just have less headroom for overclocking..
I like the 5700 also but would take the 5900 over it.. especially if you get the older variation with the faster ram.

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Whats wrong with 2.8ns ram?
My radeon 9800 had 3.2 ns ram... whats wrong with that?

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You got a good deal though, I cant find a sub $250 Radeon 9800 NP on pricewatch today (12/16).

The cheapest 9800 Pro was right around $300 even.
If you have links please post them, I'd be interested in seeing where those are available at such good prices!

When those $250 and up NPs are gone (they are already dwindling fast) the 5900NU looks really good for less ($190ish).

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My R9800 has 3.0ns ram on it
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You certainly deserved catching a good one after your 9500 problem and the 5700U. Sounds like that one popped easy on ya.

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Call of duty rock but i would prefer hl2 :)

My own beast: Athlon 2700xp+ (oc: 3200xp+ with 200fsb) , Radeon 9800pro (oc: 410/370) , 512mb ddr400. SO MUCH faster than my last computer (pIII 550......)
 
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The Call of Duty demo was fun for about 20 minutes, I personally cant get into any games built off the Quake3 engine anymore. I will say that COD did the Q3 engine proud though...

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BTW I took your advice and got a 128mb GF4.. it came to $91 w/shipping and is a Leadtek. <A HREF="http://gameve.com/gve/Store/ProductDetails.aspx?sku=VC-LEAD-SP11" target="_new">Click</A>
It is the 8X AGP version so it has the faster ram (same as the 64mb versions, 500-odd mhz)
Also has the good tv output encoder, similar to what the ATIs use, capable of 1024x768.

I loaded the 53.03 drivers and found more reasons I love Nvidia.. I dont remember these features in the last NV drivers I used but they are there now-

1. Slick as snot to allow custom resolutions with custom refreshrates.. which is very useful for specific applications such as arcade emulation with MAME. This is very very cool and useful.
With ATI you have to go into the registry and do all kinds of dinking around to get them functioning properly, I wont go into the details but it sucks.

2. I no longer have to use refresh force! When you use ATIs refresh rate setting in their drivers, it will change the rate to 85hz or whatever, but if you task out of the game, on reentry it snaps back to 60hz!
At least in the opengl games that I task out of frequently.
Refresh force does not allow games such as Halo to load at all when its settings are applied.. its stupid that halo doesnt allow for forced rates but what am I gonna do. :smile:

Other than that, you just encounter less little annoying issues.

And I <b>swear</b> that Nvidia's Windows 2D acceleration is much better than ATIs. You can tell just by dragging a window around fast and watching for lag. This isnt a huge issue but it is very noticable over time, even on webpages.
I can tell a distinct difference between even the GF2MX I'm on now and my previous 9800 Pro.
Besides all that, the 3.8s killing monitors from the VPU recover feature (never proven, but theres always some fact behind all rumor), and the incompatibilities with Half Life using AA/AF..
feels good being back to my roots!


Feels better to have this semester over with...!

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The Call of Duty demo was fun for about 20 minutes, I personally cant get into any games built off the Quake3 engine anymore. I will say that COD did the Q3 engine proud though...
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Thats really funny, I could never stand Q3A or ANY of its spinoffs based on it for years upon years..
COD is the first Q3A game that I enjoy.

They say Carmack severly restricted the engine on Q3A release.
I think the same will be true about Doom 3.
HL2, while cool, will probably be one of the defacto "DX9" game engines.
Could be wrong but I dont know if its going to be something significantly above and beyond a standard DX9 game.

Thats not saying that Doom3 is not based on many older technologies but its certainly something special as far as engines go. Its really a testament to Carmack and how he can make a OpenGL 1.4 game look better than a DX9 one.

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<b>I’M NOT A ATI FANBOY, I’M NOT A NV FANBOY, I’M A STABILITY FANBOY</b>
 
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Well, DoomIII is getting more primitive by the passing months, but it still utilizes some cool shader effects...
Ti cards will use ARB_VERTEX_PROGRAM and Register Combiners to get shader effects.
R200(R8500) will use the ARB_vertex_program and ATI_fragment_shader extension path.
FX cards will use the NV30 path, which utilizes the NV_fragment_program to target multiple precisions(FP16/FP32)
Radeons 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800 use the pure OpenGL ARB_vertex_program and ARB_frament_program shaders in their native FP24(full precision modes)
It's gotta be alota work fur dat damn Cramack to get all dem' cards a workin' right :wink:

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Now you come to mention it the place I got mine just a few days ago is now showing as out of stock. The cheapest 9800 n/p I found online now after a quick look is $238 - strange. However I can still find 9800 Pros for $275 and up aplenty.
 
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Pricewatch and other engines are hard to use because they include those SE cards in with the full 8 pipeline NP and Pro cards.

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<b>I’M NOT A ATI FANBOY, I’M NOT A NV FANBOY, I’M A STABILITY FANBOY</b>
 
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Yeah it was 3.3.. ah well, just a tenth of a nanosecond... :wink:

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I just tell it like it is and some can't handle it. If your experience is different, well congratu-fukulation.
<b>I’M NOT A ATI FANBOY, I’M NOT A NV FANBOY, I’M A STABILITY FANBOY</b>
 
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