[NTLUG:Discuss] Anyone got a new Radeon (with the just released drivers)?

[Paul Drew]

I am in a similar situation with the desire to upgrade my card. The main 
issue at hand is that I don't have $200+ to spend on a card. I was hoping 
that the fx5600 would be enough, but I am thinking after looking at 
benchmarks, and such that it will not be. I am kinda looking at ATI as well. 
I have a few ATI cards already but nothing for gaming. Nvidia has always 
been my choice. Right now I have a Geforce3 ti500 that has been rocking hard 
even on new games. I have a mobility radeon in my laptop, but its just 
horrible for games even with 64mb on an AMD XP 2000+ with 512 ram.

I am going to wait and actually see how well my current card can handle 
Halflife2. I bougt Savage: Battle for Newerth this weekend, and it plays 
superb even at 1600x1200. It is on the silverback engine, and is a very nice 
looking game. So it looks promising to stay put for now. :)

Paul Drew


>From: David Brown <frag at phrenetictheory.org>
>Reply-To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
>To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Anyone got a new Radeon (with the just 
>released drivers)?
>Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:35:32 -0500
>
>I was just in the market for a new (top of the line) graphics card and was 
>looking Nvidia or ATI.  I always buy Nvidia because they had great cards 
>and had great Linux support.  I was buying the new card for a couple of new 
>games that were coming out pretty soon.  (Doom III, HL2, EQ2)  I looked at 
>the Nvidia cards, and then read all HL2/Valve stuff and started looking at 
>the ATI cards.  It seems alot of what Valve was saying is being disputed 
>not only by Nvidia, but others as well.  They also noted that the drivers 
>used in the test where the (Nvidia's) 45 drivers that they stopped working 
>on months ago for the 50 drivers that have better support for DX9 and 
>better shader support.  I ended up just buying the the eVGA Nvidia GeForce 
>FX 5900 Ultra 256MB.  ZipZoomFly.com (formerly GoogleGear.com) had it for 
>$435 (most places have it for $499.)   The eVGA card had pretty good 
>reviews from users and reviewing websites alike.  (I never take reviewing 
>websites word only)  The main reason I ended up going with Nvidia was 
>solely for the fact that their Linux support has been far and away (IMO) 
>better, and the fact that I've never had a problem with any of my Nvidia 
>cards.
>
>In tests today; Nvidia's cards are not the fastest, but Nvidia is promising 
>that it won't disappoint once the new drivers are released.  Drivers can 
>make or break a video card, and Nvidia is pretty good about their drivers.
>
>This is the card I ended up with.
>
>http://www.neoseeker.com/resourcelink.html?rid=58703
>
>What I like about the card itself is it was made by Nvidia.  I don't mean 
>just the chipset.  The card was made by Nvidia and packaged for eVGA.  That 
>means it should be one of the soundest Nvidia cards on the market.
>
>
>David
>
>
>Chris Cox wrote:
>
>>I'm interested in how the Radeon is performing.
>>Would be nice if someone has a 9700 Pro... but
>>could be any of the newer 9xxx series.  I'm
>>curious about any well known 3D benchmark...
>>say U2K3 or something like that.
>>
>>I've used the open source dri Radeon drivers
>>to drive the laptop I'm bringing to the next
>>meeting... there are some glitches, but all
>>in all.. everything works quite well.  It's
>>got the Radeon Mobility 7500.
>>
>>I've been a big fan of Nvidia on Linux for
>>the past year... but with some of the recent
>>flak and questions around Nvidia, I'm curious
>>about people's experience with the newer
>>Radeon's in particular.  Is it time to look
>>to ATI again?
>>
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