Radeon 9600 SE

[DrunkPanda]

somewhere in a hl2 thread, someone commented that the 9600 SE was a piece of crap and i have a 9600 SE so i want to know, IS IT a piece of crap? i paid $100 for it last winter and i want to know if the card was worth $100.

 

[Shuzer]

Sorry to say, that card is not worth $100. Granted, it was last winter, you could have saved $50 (if even) more and bought a Radeon 9600 Pro.

Ah well, it's not exactly an FX5200 type of bad, but it's not much better.

 

[Loshadka]

It was worth the 100 buck, but still is a piece of doody. It's a castrated version of the R 9600(non-XT/PRO) with clock/memory speeds cut in twice. It is dangerous to run a DX9 application on it...:E

 

[Roland Deschain]

Before upgrading your computer, always, alwasy, always, go on a forum and ask their opiniton, cause there are always guys out there that are much wiser than you in computer lore and can safe you from making mistakes. If I wasn't on this forum, I would have had no idea that ATI will run HL2 better than NVidia, at least in the newer videocards.

 

[Shuzer]

It was worth the 100 buck,

Keep in mind, the American dollar is stronger than the Canadian. So, if he paid $100 USD, it wasn't worth it.. $100 CAD, it'd be worth it.

 

[63]

you just had to bring Canada into this didn't you!?

 

[Roland Deschain]

you just had to bring Canada into this didn't you!?

Canada is omnipresent, much like HL2 and the Force.

 

[The Terminator]

so true, so so true

On topic: I have a 9600 SE man, its not that bad believe me. peep this link (http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=625602&postcount=235) my benchmarks with my old computer, not one in my sig.

 

[DrunkPanda]

Before upgrading your computer, always, alwasy, always, go on a forum and ask their opiniton, cause there are always guys out there that are much wiser than you in computer lore and can safe you from making mistakes. If I wasn't on this forum, I would have had no idea that ATI will run HL2 better than NVidia, at least in the newer videocards.

i didn't really have a choice. i WANTED the 9600 XT but the graphics card was a christmas present from my parents, they took me to pick out a graphics card and ended up not letting me choose the one i wanted anyway :angry: (it was all i could do to convince them to let me get an ati card instead of a card from one of those no-name companies). but had i known the SE was so bad, i would have fought harder for the 9600xt.
i'm sad now ;(.
one more question though, the card i had before the 9600 was a radeon 9000 which came with the comp. was it worth upgrading from that card or was there such a small difference between them that i was ripped off?

 

[Loshadka]

There is difference, but not much.