Do you think this will happen before the end of July(my birthday ) perhaps?Scumgrief said:Hold off on that purchase. Like duder said above, once the next-gen cards come out (X800 and whateverever card) the high end stuff (FX5900's, 9800PRO's) should hit the sub-$200 range. Seriously... live with what you have a little while longer, and you'll get a better card in the end for the same price. Won't be long.
neilthecellist said:Back to the subject: Can anyone find a Radeon 9800 for less than 200 dollars and tell me where that store is, or where I can find the cheapest 5700?
BoboThePenguin said:Do you think this will happen before the end of July(my birthday ) perhaps?
Hehe, that isn't actually garfield, it's puss in boots from Shrek 2. He's near the end of this trailernice avatar BoboThePenguin. I'm have always read the Garfield books and been a big fan!
Cool! My birthday is July 30thholy hell penguin, im in the same position! im fixing to get a new copmuter too come my birthday, which is July 28th!
Chances are if you don't wait and get a card lower than the 9800 Pros / 5900's you'll be in the exact same situation you are now 6-12 months down the road.DDRRE said:Damn it, I've been waiting to get a better card since I bought this rig @ October 2001,
I currently have an ASUS V7100 GeForce 2 MX with 32MBs of SDRAM, and it gets me annoyed!! ;[
Do you have any idea what does wait mean to ME? :{
the Omega drivers for ATI have lots of cool built-in stuff, including an overclocking benchmark app that tests the card to see how much it can safely overclocked! ATI has also given the Omega drivers it's stamp of approval! (<- well, more like an honorable mention, but hey...)DDRRE said:Can't I overclock with an external program?
Mistake. The 9600XT isn't much faster than the 9600PRO, since the extra speed is choked by the limited memory bandwidth. Read up on the benchmarks next time.Solid Squall said:ATI is terrible. I have a 9600XT.
I'm not sure I agree with that. They probably didn't have time. On the other hand, its going to be a while before you see Shaders 3.0 properly used in any game. You have a point though, except that I thought they put Shaders 3.0 in that card. I might be wrong.I want shaders 3.0 and ati dident put it in the X800 because they are lazy.
Are you sure this isn't just your system? I haven't had any issues with Halo on the stock drivers, or the latest cats.ATI are really rubbish for drivers and the latest catalyst still dont stop farcry and halo from crashing
Thats a fun assumption. "The last card I bought crashed on a game, and I can't even verify that it was the card that caused it, but since it didn't do it back when I had a 5200, the next nVidia card is going to be better than the next ATI card!"My old 5200 never chrashed on any game and this is why I think the 6800 ultra will be better quallity then the X800.