Radeon 8500LE or Geforce3 Ti200

[trueboyz]

I finally narrowed down to these two graphic card. I was if you guys can help me pick out one. Please give me your opinions of it. Both does offers programmable engine and vertex shader right?

 

[rcf84]

I would look for a Radeon 8500 Retail on the Web. There around $160 US and can match up to the GF4 Ti4200.

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[trueboyz]

yeah i notice that. I was surfing over the MadOnion forum and saw people talking that the Radeon 8500 beat the Geforce4 Ti4400. Is this true?

 

[bront]

Is there a budget reason you can't go with the 8500 retail? It's not that much more that the LE online.

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[bront]

Not sure about the ti4400, though it has the potential to, especialy on systems with slower CPUs (The GF4 TIs need more CPU power)

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[trueboyz]

I don't know i might get the Radeon 8500 retail. But since i'm building a new computer, i want to save some money.

 

[rcf84]

I finally got my R8500 at 10k 3dmarks

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[trueboyz]

dang that's awesome! I currently have a geforce2. I can probably bearly get up to 3000 with 3dmark2001 SE or not.

 

[rcf84]

the thing is i OCed the card good. Blocking 2 pci slots

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[trueboyz]

can you please clarify that? I didn't understand what you're trying to say?

 

[bront]

He's overclocking the retail card, and probably has fans and heatsinks that are large enough to block off the next 2 PCI slots.

As for the extra money, it's only like 15-30 extra for the retail, and I recomend going that route, simply for the extra room in overclocking as well as the defalt gain in performance over the OEM/LE

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