Suggest New Video Card?

I am in the market for a new video card and was wondering what you guys would recomend. From the research I have done it looks like the best value would be ATI RADEON 9800PRO. It seems its an older card though.

Please let me know your suggestions.


AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2700+ 2.2 GHz
SAPPHIRE RADEON 9200SE ATLANTIS 128MB
NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio Driver 6.14.348.0
Dual channel 512 ram. (1gig)
Raid HD's 160gigs total
Windows Xp Pro SP2

 

I have just bought my second 9800 pro, it is a great card, get some good cooling and you can overclock it too. I got mine for £82 and only the £300 cards can beat it in games! I also have a 9200 and the difference is huge!
I would go for it.

 

yea the 9800 is a good card, however your CPU might bottleneck it however slightly. But you will notice a massive improvement in game performance. Another one to consider is the 6600GT.

 

I was looking at the 6600GT and it seems the price is around the same($139) so its a consideration. Although it needs 400 watt or more power to run. Wonder if it outdoes the 9800 pro, or is it also around the same?

 

I actually have both cards. I broke an original 9800pro and bought the 6600GT as a replacement. In my newest pc I decided to go with the 9800 PRO again. I had no end of problems getting the 6600GT to work when I first got it, the drivers on release were rubbish and it took a few months before drivers came out that didn't make every game I played crash. The difference between the two is very marginal in my oppinion, I can't tell the difference, maybe you would playing Quake 4. I have a HIS 9800 pro which comes with Arctic cooling and has good overclocking potential. I wouldn't go with another Nvidia card, I much prefer ATI.
Hope that helps.

 

I have had a GeForce 2, a GeForce FX 5700LE and a Radeon AIW 9800 Pro and while my Radeon card stomps my older ones I find that the nVidia drivers are much easier to install because EVERYTHING is in one neat little (ok so its not a small file) installer whereas the Radeon Drivers and other things are split into a bunch of different intstallers and everytime I have tried to install a new set of drivers things mess up.

 

well I think I will go with the Radeon 9800 pro in the end, found it on sale for $180 Can. locally. Actually its the ALL IN WONDER 9800 pro. From what I can see the ALL IN WONDER is the same preformance but has more features.

 

For about the same money you might consider an X800GT such as one of these...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ice=&MaxPrice=&SubCategory=48&Submit=Property

unless your really in love with the TV functions of the A-I-W card.

Faster Core and quite a bit more memory bandwidth.

 

AFAIK, they don't make x800gts w/ an AGP interface, neither do they make 9200SEs in PCI-E so the x800gt won't be compatible with his computer.

 

Good point. Your right, my mistake. ATI seems to missing the boat on providing a really good new generation midrange AGP card. Must be losing a lot of sales to the 6600GT.