[IceFire]

Looking at doing some major system upgrades in the next few months.  Probably getting a R9700 when ATI announces the R9900 (and thus dropping the 9700's price).  I just want to know if anyone has had any trouble with the card and FreeSpace 2.  I haven't heard anything (more trouble with the GF4 Ti's from the sounds of it).

[Stealth]

funny you should mention it, my friend got the 9700 last week, and i'm going over to his house today to install it, so i'll let you know what happens.

[IceFire]

Awesome.  Let me know what happens.

While were on it, here's what I'm thinking of building.

AMD Athlon 2400+
Asus A7N8X
512 DDR PC2700 RAM
Radeon 9700

And all put inside a Antec 660AMG case (the fancier Pro model is too tall for my desk overhang).  I'll be ripping out my CD-RW, SB Live! and 20GB hard drive to save on costs and giving the rest of my system to my brother.

Anyone know of any problems, issues, compatability problems, better value's somewhere?  Not planning to overclock so i'm not buying a Athlon 1600+ and overclocking to 2200+.  Not in the cards for me right now.

[CP5670]

On a side note, is the 9900 going to be the model utilizing the R350 processor? I might go for that one if the main CPU is not a big bottleneck to its performance.

THe GF3s and GF4s have various problems with FS2 that tend to mess up the text on certain antialiasing settings. I have heard some things with the older Radeons not working at all in FS2 for a few people, but it seems that the newer ones are okay.

[diamondgeezer]

GF4 Ti is A1 SUPAR!!!!1

[Nico]

I have my radeon 9700 for a week now, haven't tried FS2 yet tho.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by CP5670
the older Radeons not working at all in FS2 for a few people,

Well I've got an 9000Pro, and it works fine.

[Nico]

worked fine with me 7200 too...

[Rake]

Works fine with my original Radeon (Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO) as well.

[Solatar]

Again, I have a 9000Pro and fs2 (and ut2k3:thepimp: ) works great on it.

[Redfang]

9700 Pro here. FS2 has always worked well, as did few other games, but all other games just crashes after 1-15 minutes of play. But that's another story, incompatibilities with my motherboard (Asus A7V8X) and the Radeon. Though it's all solved now... You should get no problems with A7N8X.
 
And FS2 does work perfectly for me, though anti-aliasing is weird. But that's the game's fault...
 
And CP5670, yes, 9900 will use the R350 chipset.

[IceFire]

Awesome cool.

No, im not getting the 9900...its no doubt going to be too expensive.  I'm counting on the 9700 dropping when it gets announced/released/whatever.  My current system just isn't fast enough for the new games I want to play...so its time for the new one.

[CP5670]

Well, I remember seeing a number of complaints back in the VBB days on trouble with Radeons and FS2, but it might just have been some driver issues that were rectified over time.

I might get a 9900 depending on how much it relies on the main processor in games, as my processor is getting somewhat old now (Athlon TB 1400, but I think I will need to replace the motherboard for a new one) and I sort of missed out on the last generation of video cards anyway.

[Fury]

I believe most of the problems with Radeons were because of bad drivers. Luckily to all ATI users out there, ATI changed their driver policy and are now working with ATI user communities to improve their drivers. Catalyst 3.0 and 3.1 are very promising drivers.

Originally posted by Redfang
But that's another story, incompatibilities with my motherboard (Asus A7V8X) and the Radeon. Though it's all solved now... You should get no problems with A7N8X.

I am interested. What kind of problem(s) and how it was solved?

[Nico]

Originally posted by Redfang
9700 Pro here. FS2 has always worked well, as did few other games, but all other games just crashes after 1-15 minutes of play. But that's another story, incompatibilities with my motherboard (Asus A7V8X) and the Radeon. Though it's all solved now... You should get no problems with A7N8X.
 
And FS2 does work perfectly for me, though anti-aliasing is weird. But that's the game's fault...
 
And CP5670, yes, 9900 will use the R350 chipset.

"shivers"
Warcraft3 crashes quite fast on me, after a dozen minutes... serious sam works fine tho... gotta try more games

[Grey Wolf]

Originally posted by IceFire
Awesome.  Let me know what happens.

While were on it, here's what I'm thinking of building.

AMD Athlon 2400+
Asus A7N8X
512 DDR PC2700 RAM
Radeon 9700

And all put inside a Antec 660AMG case (the fancier Pro model is too tall for my desk overhang).  I'll be ripping out my CD-RW, SB Live! and 20GB hard drive to save on costs and giving the rest of my system to my brother.

Anyone know of any problems, issues, compatability problems, better value's somewhere?  Not planning to overclock so i'm not buying a Athlon 1600+ and overclocking to 2200+.  Not in the cards for me right now.

There's a bit of a flaw with your plan, I believe. IIRC, the 2400+ only has a 133MHz FSB. That means there's no real point in using PC2700 (333 MHz, IIRC). PC2100 (266 MHz) will work fine.

They might have increased the FSB for the 2400+, though, over the earlier models, so you might want to check.

[Phantom]

You are right about the FSB, but PC2700 is only marginally more
expensive than PC2100 (at least in the UK it is) and is a much
more future proof investment. Especially if you do ever go down
the overclocking route.

[Kazan]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
GF4 Ti is A1 SUPAR!!!!1

an a1 supar piece of ****

[Nico]

ah, no kazan you're wrong! it can suck up dust! it's cool!
her... ok I'll shut up.

[Kazan]

Originally posted by venom2506
ah, no kazan you're wrong! it can suck up dust! it's cool!
her... ok I'll shut up.

NICE