Radeon 9600 XT or GeForce FX 5700 Ultra?

[Derth]

Hey

A friend of mine whith a Radeon 9200 128 came around the other day and gave me the whole Radeon is better than Nvidia and we decided to have a little bet.

We would run first my Geforce Ti4200 through 3dmark3 and then uninstall my card and install his Radeon and see who's was fastest. My card won by quite a bit but the thing which bugged me was that every now and again with the Radeon card in my machine it would reboot, especially when fiddiling with the settings in the control panel. I uninstalled the reference driver that came with the card and installed the latest catalyst drivers with the same result.

Now I'm looking to either buy a GeForce Fx 4200 ultra or the Radeon 9600 Xt.

The Radeon looks like to logical choice but I'm worried that I will expierence the same problems.

Any ideas? I heard that Radeon cards need a large power supply 400 watts and up?

Thanks
Derth

 

[sparky853]

I only have a 350W Generic PSU in my comp (specs below) with the 9600XT, and have never had a problem.

Your problem could have been a nvidia driver file kicking around your HDD. When replacing an nVidia card with an ATI card, make sure you use Detonator Destroyer, Nasty File Remover, and any registry cleaning utilities just to be safe.

I did that and haven't had a single issue in 3 months.

Spec:
Intel P4 2.4B
MSI 645E Max-U Mobo
1GB DDR333
R9600XT 128MB
SB Live 5.1
WD 60GB
Maxtor 120GB
LG DVD+-R/RW
WIN2K PRO SP4

 

[Baxter]

The 9600XT is a better card and a 300W psu should suffice

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[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Just to add to the files, there's Also Detonator R.I.P. from GURU3D.

That works good as well.

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[coolsquirtle]

get the new GDDR3 Fx5700Ultra and overclock the living shiit out of it

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[pauldh]

Or spend a few more bucks on a 9800Pro and get the best of all worlds.

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[Spitfire_x86]

R9600XT is better

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[phial]

sinse most 9600xt's will goto 550mhz core (most will go even higher), and usually the ram will o/c a little higher .. id say its better than the 5700ultra with GDDR3



shader performance just isnt there with the 5700u.. even tho people say this is ATI biased, its really the truth

oh, and the 9600xt requires very little power compared to most other cards bcause of its .13 process
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[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Another vote for the R9600 series, but then again what do we know?


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