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| Thread ID: 50886 | 2004-11-04 12:32:00 | OT-Game of the YEAR | metla (154) | Press F1 |
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| 288212 | 2004-12-07 02:14:00 | > I think people are getting just a bit carried away > with graphics cards these days , half life 2 only > requires dx7 , and you dont need all those aa etc > effects to enjoy the game , with the way technology > is changing if you buy the top of the range card > today, tomorrow it will be as crap as intergrated > graphics By that logic a trip to Auckland only requires a Mark3 Cortina, the difference between hl2 on a dx7 card and a dx9 card would be like night and day....Anyhow i for one enjoy quality graphics,quality audio,quality gameplay......Its all good in my book. and my 6600GT arrives tomorrow....w00t w00t111 |
metla (154) | ||
| 288213 | 2004-12-07 02:15:00 | but even a ATI 9200 can handle dx9 | noone (22) | ||
| 288214 | 2004-12-07 02:21:00 | Yeah,at 3fps,...... | metla (154) | ||
| 288215 | 2004-12-07 02:26:00 | im happy with my radeon 9600SE, it does the job, those ti4200 128mb cards are pretty good, and will last the distance | Prescott (11) | ||
| 288216 | 2004-12-07 02:28:00 | Pure comedy hardware.gamespot.com |
metla (154) | ||
| 288217 | 2004-12-07 02:30:00 | While I'm pleasantly surprised with Hl2 and my Ti4400, there are several recent games where it struggles . So its lifetime is limited now . I'd never buy a top of the line card because it certainly wouldn't hold its value on the price/performance curve and I wouldn't value the extra frame rates it would offer over something a bit further down the price range . I always get 2nd tier (my Ti4400 wasn't top of the range either) stuff . Same with CPUs . Of cousre, when it comes to items like cars, I'm more like 4th or 5th tier . . . . . . It all comes down to how much you personally value the improvements on offer for the extra dollars . I personally wouldn't buy a consumer-digicam because something like a Canon 300D DSLR -- for me -- leaves them all dead . And of cousre a 20D leaves a 300D dead . But for other folks (millions of them, in point of fact) the things offered by a DSLR aren't worth the extra bucks . They're happy with a $799 camera . I'm like that with a video card - give me decent frame rates and good display that will last for 2 to 3 years and I'm happy . An X800 Pro with 256MB of Ram is wonderful and all, but I'm not going to get a significant amount of enjoyment out of it for it to be worth the money for me . |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 288218 | 2004-12-07 02:36:00 | metla - the 9200 is a budget card its $100 , im sure the review considered that too , i like BB dont like spending large amounts of pc componants ( my new rig was purchaced a few days before PCI-E etc was introduced ) as i realise how fast technology changes and i just dont have the money to buy a $1000 ~ componant which will be obsolete in a years time | noone (22) | ||
| 288219 | 2004-12-07 02:54:00 | Thanks for pointing out that was the budget card,.........HA Anyhow,the relivent info was the fps and the fact its not a Dx9 card,and as far as i'm concerned not a wise purchase if games are a consideration. As for what Bruce said, I couldn't agree more,thats why i own a g4ti4200,The bottom of that particuler range and i still waited untill the price droped by a decent amount before making a purchase. And my new card is decidely midrange as well, If i happened to have a thousand dollars in my pocket then i could find something far more worthwhile to do with it then buy a top end card. |
metla (154) | ||
| 288220 | 2004-12-07 03:27:00 | just to clear this up i dont own a 9200 btw , Metla , the 9200 can run dx9 , although i do agree with you in its preformance , my 9600XT is good enough for me and the next time i upgrade my pc it will be with pci e ( hopefullly no new bus wil l be just around the corner next time ) | noone (22) | ||
| 288221 | 2004-12-07 03:29:00 | Straight out of the article. the Radeon 9200 does not have full DX9 hardware support. This doesn't mean that the Radeon 9200 won't play DX9 games when they eventually come out; rather, the 9200 won't support some of the DX9-specific features that the new games use. |
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