Good Card?

[mason4]

Hello, I just found a Ati 9200 SE video card 128 DDR 8X and the person says it's new and wants to get rid of it for $45.00 and i wanted to know if it was worth it?
Thanks Dave

 

[Crashman]

No, it's not worth it. ATI made the Radeon 8500 with similar performance to the GeForce3. They had a cheaper version called the 8500LE (underclocked/slower RAM). They renamed the 8500LE as the Radeon 9100, the 9200 was slower still, and the 9200LE is a 9200 with the RAM bus cut in half (from 128 bits to 64 bits).

I don't think it would beat a GeForce2. I'm almost positive it won't beat a GeForce4 MX440, and that's a DX7 card.

Oh, and 8x means absolutely nothing with that card, it's SO SLOW it would perform just as well in an AGP2x board.

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[HardWareBoss]

128MB selling point.

 

[cleeve]

I guess it's a decent enough card if you never play any games, or if you play Quake3 or older stuff.

But newer games wouldn't work so good... lots of better choices out there. As a rule of thumb, stay the hell away from anything with an 'SE' on it...

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[pauldh]

You got that right. More memory = more likely a noob buys one thinking it's better. Especially with retail store employees pushing more is better.

I know a couple people that just knew they wanted 128MB GF4Ti4200's (AGP 4X) put in there rig, despite me explaining that the 128MB versions at that time were slower due to slow clocked ram. Kinda like Karate...knowing a little is worse than knowing nothing. Smart ones went with the 64MB ones and got more performance for less money.

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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Pauldh on 12/23/04 11:45 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[phial]

well... if those people were playing Doom3 on their TI4200s (which works suprisingly well btw) they would get probably better performance out of their 128meg cards. UT2004 woudl also like the extra ram as well

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[pauldh]

Yeah true, D3 changed things a bit, even with 256MB cards. But this was ages before D3 was released. And in all current benchies/games back then, the 64MB one won out. Once 8X 128MB ones clocked the same as the 64MB ones came out, I rarely bought any 64MB ones again as the prices were so close between the two. But I was talking way back, when most people were putting 256MB of system ram in a mainstream gaming rig.



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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Pauldh on 12/23/04 12:41 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[pauldh]

<A HREF="http://server2.uploadit.org/files/PaulDH-GF4Ti4x00.jpg" target="_new">Like this Yellow Asus</A> in the bottom right , you got that right. That's my best <A HREF="http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7677017" target="_new">Ti4200</A>. The Purple MSI next to it is a Ti4400. All others are Ti4200's. That yellow Asus did 320/640, and it was a newegg refurb card. Didn't they come out afterwards though? I don't remember seeing them back in the early AGP4X only Ti4200 days when the 128MB 4X's were slowpokes. Maybe I just missed out on them until later.


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[pauldh]

Nope doesn't matter at all I suppose. Only thing that matters is the 8X 128MB ones had ram clocked higher just as the 64MB 4X cards.

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[Clob]

I have a 9200 and is yucko! POS! I WANT TO BREAK IT CUZ I WAS STIUPID AND BAUGHT IT! Ohh.... Sorry, didnt mean to freak out a lil.

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[HardWareBoss]

Thats what I have 64MB TI4200. I was telling a guy at Best Buy about how they confuse those that don't know what the LE and all the others. Told him to check our Graphic Buyers Guide. He was looking at 5700LE.

 

[phial]

yea your totally right, back in those days 64 megs was enough

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