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Asus V8200 Ti200 or ATI Rad 8500 Retail?

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February 5, 2002 5:08:59 PM

I've read so many frickin' articles and posts on so many sites that my head is spinning!Which card is the better of the two?The reason I am only choosing between the 2 are price.The articles I've seen say the GF3 Ti500 and the Radeon 8500 Retail are close,so everyone and benchmarks say.But what keeps me from making a definate choice is the Radeons drivers. I keep reading horror stories about bad drivers.I look at the ASUS choice and get great features and a pretty good gaming bundle.I look at the Radeon choice and get TV out and DVI.I don't plan on getting a flat screen anytime soon and I hear the Radeon has superior TV out compared to the ASUS.But nothing else.I have seen benchmark pics here at Tom's and see that Radeon kills the ASUS 8200 Ti200 but I am just wary of the driver situation.I am building a PC which will have the ASUS A7V133A Mobo,1.3GHz Athlon,512MB SDRAM.Any suggestions are welcome and thanks in Advance.

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February 5, 2002 5:26:30 PM

ATI is working hard on their drivers, those "horror stories" are from older drivers, the newly released drivers and the "leaked" drivers are pretty good, in fact I'm probably going to get a Radeon 8500 instead of a Geforce 3 TI200.

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February 5, 2002 6:37:19 PM

The Radeon 8500 is faster and has stable drivers.

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