Sapphire Radeon 9500 overheating BIG TIME.

[GogoTheMimic]

MSI only makes nVidia chipsets as far as I can see. *hugs MSI Mainboard* I wub this mobo!

 

[Tagrineth]

MSI only makes nVidia chipsets as far as I can see. *hugs MSI Mainboard* I wub this mobo!

Well then sucks to be you ^^;

 

[Clements]

Just get the GeForceFX 5600 and be happy! The 128MB doesn't look like it's the Ultra version to me, so get the 256MB one. It's a great card, nice performance and supports all the new crap like 'Pixel Shaders'. The 5700 Ultra is worth a look- $218 at newegg and is a good card. The nVidia's will run games like Doom 3 adequately. The 9500 Pro is faster than the 5600 but not by all that much.

 

[Tagrineth]

Clements, yes, but is it worth supporting pixel shaders 2.0 if the support is obscenely slow compared to the competition? (read: with PS2.0 usage, even in HL2 which has a GeForce FX optimised path, the 'comparable' 9600 Pro destroys the FX 5600U's frame rates; added: in fact, the 9600 Pro is faster in HL2 than the FX 5900 Ultra)

 

[AlphaWolf]

Bah...I think you guys spend way to much time and money on video cards. I would say at most I have spent $350 on video cards in my lifetime, and I don't bother to figure out what the "32-bit hypershading trilinear c-buffer" is for unless a game I play will actually use it

 

[Tagrineth]

Bah...I think you guys spend way to much time and money on video cards. I would say at most I have spent $350 on video cards in my lifetime, and I don't bother to figure out what the "32-bit hypershading trilinear c-buffer" is for unless a game I play will actually use it

^^; I've spent a lot of time, but not as much money as you think on video cards.

FYI, I paid for half of my $150 Kyro II ($75) and my Radeon 9500 Pro ($177.75) - total $227.75.

 

[Clements]

Clements, yes, but is it worth supporting pixel shaders 2.0 if the support is obscenely slow compared to the competition? (read: with PS2.0 usage, even in HL2 which has a GeForce FX optimised path, the 'comparable' 9600 Pro destroys the FX 5600U's frame rates; added: in fact, the 9600 Pro is faster in HL2 than the FX 5900 Ultra)

The fact is, I couldn't care less if the corresponding ATi card is any faster. He just wanted an nVidia alternative, and I give him one. I'm happy with it, and I don't like Half-Life, I like Doom.

 

[AlphaWolf]

^^; I've spent a lot of time, but not as much money as you think on video cards.

FYI, I paid for half of my $150 Kyro II ($75) and my Radeon 9500 Pro ($177.75) - total $227.75.

Well, average it out with the fact that I have been buying one video card every 3 years since 1995 (albeit back then you didn't need to spend as much to get a good card...ironic isn't it?)

 

[Tagrineth]

Well, average it out with the fact that I have been buying one video card every 3 years since 1995 (albeit back then you didn't need to spend as much to get a good card...ironic isn't it?)

Wrong. 3Dfx Voodoo2 SLI - $600.

The Voodoo3 3500TV was like $300 on launch, too, wasn't it?

 

[AlphaWolf]

Wrong. 3Dfx Voodoo2 SLI - $600.

The Voodoo3 3500TV was like $300 on launch, too, wasn't it?

I am referring to the pre-3d card era. I remember I needed my first video card upgrade because my POS trident 512k of vram ISA card couldn't cut it for running duke3d at a normal frame rate. I spent about $50 on one IIRC.

Voodoo 2 I probably spent $50 on, because I went in half with somebody. My card after that was a GF 256 with DDR, I think I spent $100 going in halves on that one as well.

 

[GogoTheMimic]

I just lost my job so I don't know if I'll be able to do the upgrade. I *think* I got the softmodding to work because my 3dMark03 scores jumped 1000 points but I don't notice any real difference in any of my games. FFXI still isn't that great. :\