8500 or ti500?

[Guest]

I am buying a new video card and i have narrowed it down(obviously) to the radeon 8500 and the geforce 3 ti500. I like the new radeon card but i was wondering if it will give me the same performance lead over the ti500 with my current computer. I like the fact that the radeon 8500 is faster in 3dmark2001 but i am not sure if it will be faster than the ti500 on my computer. here are my specs:
850mhz pentium 3
640mb of pc133 ram
two ibm deskstars(45gb and 30 gb at 7200 rpm)
soundblaster live xgamer 5.1
windows ME and windows xp

i am willing to run whatever os will run the card i buy the fastest. any help is much appreciated. THanks

 

[flamethrower205]

Dude, w/ that processors, neither of the cards will be able to give their full potential.

What if your life moved.....2 inches to the left?

 

[Crashman]

Both are good cards. You might consider overclocking your CPU to get better memory transfers for an improved score. This is where the PIII 700 is far superior to the 850-you can overclock the 700 to 933@133 without overclocking the PCI bus, whereas the PIII 850 will hit maybe 977@115, but with the PCI bus being overclocked and PC133 memory being underclocked (less stability, less performance).

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

 

[rcf84]

*oooops... double post*

Nice Nvidia and ATi users get a Cookie.... Yummy

 

[rcf84]

Well the Radeon 8500 on my old p3 733 was pretty good.

Nice Nvidia and ATi users get a Cookie.... Yummy

 

[Crashman]

Nothing wrong with it, in fact th 733 did pretty good.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

 

[OldBear]

Either card would improve performance and will work later when you upgrade the rest of you system.

<font color=blue>Remember.... You get what you pay for. All advice here is free.</font color=blue>

 

[D33]

hey guys, the dude is wondering which card to buy, not some generic opinions!
well tell you what, both are high-end cards so i think that a closer approach will help:
i just bought a radeon8500 and i won't lie to you, the drivers shipped with the card suck in D3D, those with the nvidia card are way better, especially under xp, but if you update with the new drivers from ati.com, you should be fine, and trust me if you want to taste the real power of radeon run games and stuff under win9x,
on the other hand, the ti500 is very expensive...for a good card i mean like the asus, or creative or e-vga, all are at lease 55-100 dollars more than the radeon8500...
as a resume, the radeon8500 hac a good potential, but you gotta be carefull with the drivers.
the choice is yours

 

[pr497]

that kinda sounded like an opinion too...

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[Guest]

I wouldn't be so sure the radeon is faster than the TI500. For the majority maybe, but not in my case. Here is a link so i don't have to repeat myself. The 23.11 Det XP driver boosted my 3dmark2001 score by 300 points. But, you also still have the issue with your processor, you prolly won't be able to tell a difference.

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=faq&notfound=1&code=1

 

[Guest]

Long story short.

Performance about the same. (e.g. You probably won't notice without a frame counter.)

But Radeon is cheaper. So get Radeon. Unless NVIDIA's past driver record is worth 100$ to you.

I AM Canadian.

 

[flamethrower205]

lol, it was an opinion, and dude, I looked at the retail R8500, but gimem a break- $300?? That ain't cheap.

What if your life moved.....2 inches to the left?

 

[D33]

well i know that 300$ isn't cheap..not at all actually, but if you'r looking for a high-end graphic big honking card then money won't really matter...
well actually i am having some problems with the radeon8500.
so check out my new post guys.