Nooooo ATI!!!!

[Guest]

I ordered my computer and thought that I had the best grpahics card, I got the Radeon 9800 Pro 128 Mb DDR, I heard there's a 256 mb... is this true?

 

[Wyle]

Yes, but that extra 128 mb of memory is like icinng on the cake. That extra memory will help a little with things like anti-aliasing, but you'll barely be pulling 60 frames without it (thats assuming you havea 3 gig computer), so chances are it will matter not. And if it did matter, it would be such a small difference that it wouldn't even matter.

 

[RabidMeatloaf]

You won't need a 256 meg for like a year or so....

 

[DimitriPopov]

Yes. But dont worry games dont use 256 yet. abot 98mb for Doom3 on high settings I hear. At least you got an ATI , im stuck with a FX5900U 256. Honestly if youd have waited until after HL2 was out , the 9800 would be cheaper when the 9800XT comes out.

 

[infin|ty]

The 256MB version is within 1-2 FPS in every benchmark I've seen. Not worth it IMO.

 

[Guest]

the lady I ordered it from said it was the best graphics card out... aaarr

 

[Gorgon]

stick with it,

 

[Maskirovka]

well there's your problem...you trusted "some lady on the phone at a place that sells computers."

you should do your own research to find which is the best card

but the card you ended up with will be totally fine for hl2

 

[Razak]

it is basically, except one is 128mb and the other is 256mb. Not going to make much difference atm.

 

[Guest]

it was dell and i thought it was the 256.... oh well

 

[Guest]

when did the 256 com out?

 

[Baggins]

Originally posted by gamemaniaisme
I ordered my computer and thought that I had the best grpahics card, I got the Radeon 9800 Pro 128 Mb DDR, I heard there's a 256 mb... is this true?

The 128 version actually scores higher by a frame or two in most tests, but it's really nothing to worry about.

 

[DimitriPopov]

Originally posted by Maskirovka
well there's your problem...you trusted "some lady on the phone at a place that sells computers."

you should do your own research to find which is the best card

but the card you ended up with will be totally fine for hl2

I did my research and I got screwed on the one game I want to play :-/ The FX5900U was as good or better than the 9800 in every mark I saw back in June or July. Damn I got screwed. Maybe Alienware has a exchange policy. Hell Id probably trade my 256 in for a R9800P 128 , after I test my current card in HL2 of course.

 

[Razak]

dell sells ati now? wow they always had nvidia. I need to check this out.

 

[Guest]

in canada, not sure about u.s.

 

[Maskirovka]

Originally posted by DimitriPopov
I did my research and I got screwed on the one game I want to play :-/ The FX5900U was as good or better than the 9800 in every mark I saw back in June or July. Damn I got screwed. Maybe Alienware has a exchange policy. Hell Id probably trade my 256 in for a R9800P 128 , after I test my current card in HL2 of course.

sucks man...and there's your problem

you bought a card (and computer it seems) before the game you wanted to use it for the most even came out.

personally i don't buy things ahead of time...i wait until i need something then buy it...i've never really been unsatisfied with a hardware purchase and i've been upgrading computers for 10 years

 

[DimitriPopov]

Yeah , luckly the rest of the computer is great!! 3.2ghz , 1 gig ram , yum! Bad card bad bad bad bad!

 

[Hudson]

256 = useless for at least a year