[Fury]

No flaming. Thank you.

[IceFire]

Originally posted by 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.

Yeah...Fury pointed that out to me and a co-worker of mine and I have been scouring the net for any more details around that.  We both thought it had the higher bus speed.

So now I may question the AMD investment.  Do I go for the Athlon 2600+ which DOES have the PC2700 ability or do I go the intel route.  I'll have to see which is cheaper when I get closer to buying.

Kazan: The Ti line of GeForce cards are quite good.  I've sold of them and I haven't heard any complaints in the last 6 months and most hardware reviews agree with me.  They are good cards...but right now ATI is the king of the castle and ATI finally has caught upto nVidia with its driver support (maybe even surpassed) and with an awesome high quality card.

[Phantom]

Originally posted by IceFire

Yeah...Fury pointed that out to me and a co-worker of mine and I have been scouring the net for any more details around that.  We both thought it had the higher bus speed.

So now I may question the AMD investment.  Do I go for the Athlon 2600+ which DOES have the PC2700 ability or do I go the intel route.  I'll have to see which is cheaper when I get closer to buying.

It is worth holding off for a little while. The AMDs with the Barton
core are just starting to come out and, while they may not be as
good as everyone is expecting, they will quite quickly drop the
price of the Thoroughbred processors. In a month or so you will
be able to pick up an XP 2600+ for the price of a 2400+ just now.
Of course, depending on how they price them, it might actually
be worth getting the Barton - but I doubt it until they get to
higher clock speeds.

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by Kazan
an a1 supar piece of ****

Love this guy


I got me a Ti4200 64mb for a super tasty 60 squids... without one jot of overclocking, my 3DMark score is now just shy of 10k, pretty much doubling my old score

Huzzah for nVidia!

[Phantom]

Where did you get one for 60 quid from? My brother is
looking for one, but most of the places I've checked out
are still selling them for about £100.

[DSA-Gabriel]

I installed Freespace 2 two days ago because Ethari invited me over to play some games on PXO and it's running like a charm on my Radeon 9700 Pro (DirectX 9.0), Asus A7N8X, AMD Athlon 2700+, 1 gig PC2700 DDR Memory and Soundblaster Audigy2.

I also checked Starlancer yesterday and to my surprise this game still worked normally as well.

So then I went into my old games box and pulled out Wing Commander 5 and this one also still worked, well the game that is, the cut scenes were all playing in hyper mode.

[01010]

Originally posted by Kazan


an a1 supar piece of ****

*cough fanboy cough*

[Kazan]

Originally posted by 01010


*cough fanboy cough*

*cough builds systems professionally cough*

[Kazan]

Originally posted by DSA-Gabriel
So then I went into my old games box and pulled out Wing Commander 5 and this one also still worked, well the game that is, the cut scenes were all playing in hyper mode.

go into DX Diag and turn sound acceleration all the way off while you're playing prophecy

[DSA-Gabriel]

Originally posted by Kazan


go into DX Diag and turn sound acceleration all the way off while you're playing prophecy

Thx, I will give that a try tonight.

[Razor]

A friend of myne bought a Radeon 9500. 9700 is too expensive but with hacking the 9500 drivers, you can get the same graphic quality as with the 9700. I heard that it is possible.

[Gloriano]

R9700 is best card for now



My new computer


p4 2.8ghz
1500 ddr ram
R9700

[Razor]

Originally posted by SILVER DRACON
R9700 is best card for now



My new computer


p4 2.8ghz
1500 ddr ram
R9700

Yes true, but it is expensive. But if you do what I suggested you can have the same or better effect for less money.

[Fury]

Originally posted by Razor
A friend of myne bought a Radeon 9500. 9700 is too expensive but with hacking the 9500 drivers, you can get the same graphic quality as with the 9700. I heard that it is possible.

There's hardly no difference in image quality. But 9700 Pro is much faster.

The Radeon 9500 Pro has two 64-bit DDR memory controllers instead of the four in the Radeon 9700 Pro. This cuts the 9500 Pro's memory bandwidth to half of the 9700 Pro at identical clock speeds, and puts it in line with the GeForce4's 128-bit DDR memory subsystem.

Then there's the Radeon 9500 (non-Pro) which also has the reduction in memory bandwidth, but along with that it also loses half of its rendering pipelines. This makes the regular Radeon 9500 a significantly worse performer as it still only has one texture unit per pipeline, giving it a disadvantage when compared to the GeForce4.

Quotes: Anandtech

[FreeTerran]

I have a Geforce 4 Ti 4600 and no problems with Freespace 2 a friend from me have a Radeon 9700 Pro and they have no problems too.

[LAW ENFORCER]

Yay! 9700s are cool! Got mine months ago and the card has never given me one problem (I have problems with pretty much EVERYTHING!)

[Nico]

I have one pb with my 9700
it goes too fast for my atlhon 900  If I go to insane resolutions ( 1600*1400 ), damn athlon crashes after a while ( and that sux, coz it runs flawlessly ). no pb if I stick to something like 1280*1024 tho.

[Razor]

Why would you go 1600*1400. Don't you need glasses to read all that? By the way, your current res is quite good though. And by the way, don't push your system too far. You might regret it.

[Nico]

coz I had a 21" and it was what warcraft3 set as default setup

[CP5670]

so do I, but I still find it quite hard to read text on 1600x1200 and above. (and the highest one, 2048x1536, is completely illegible)