the radeon 9600 non-pro

[Sideshow]

Hi, i have been thinking of upgrading my graphic-card on my now old computer (athlon 1.2 Ghz, sdr ram, geforce 2 gts).

I dont wanna pay to much for a card that will get bottelnecked by the rest of my comp. The 9600 non-pro seems to be the obvious thing to buy.

anyone have this card? will i be able to run the dx8.1 "path" in HL2 good with this card?

Thx /side

 

[Sgt.Igneri]

At least go for the 9600 pro. If you can find one, go with the 9500 pro instead.

 

[Sideshow]

i have posted this question on multiple fourms, and the replay is more or less the same, DONT GET THE NON-PRO. Well i guess i will get the pro then thx

 

[Ender01]

i heard the 9500 (non-pro?) is better, and easily soft-modded to a 9700 pro.

the 8 pipelines dont hurt either.

 

[Sgt.Igneri]

Yeah, but chances are pretty slim of finding a 9500 non-pro. It has to be red with L shaped memory. Plus theres still a chance even if you did get it and mod it that there would be artifacts. Theres still some 9500 pros around, for like $30 more. They would be better too.

 

[Arrowhead]

in newer/more demanding games like splinter cell, the 9600pro outperforms the 9500pro because of higher memory bandwidth.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1812&p=5

because of this, I went with the 9600pro even though the 9500pro was sitting right beside it. 9600pro is a badass card... for the price sweet overclocker too.

 

[SidewinderX]

ORDER CONTENT:
1 x (320714) ATI Atlantis Radeon 9600 Pro AGP 8X 128MB DDR Video Card @ $156.50

THats what i placed a few minutes ago. I'm looking forward to OCing it. Every review site managed at least a 100Mhz Core OC eek and most managed at least a 50Mhz mem OC.

 

[Sgt.Igneri]

Cause it has a .13 micron thingy? What other cards have that?

 

[SidewinderX]

9600pro, 9800, 9800pro, 5200fx/u, 5600fx/u, 5800fx/u, 5900fx/u all have .13micron

 

[pinkerton]

.13 micron tansistor size means very little. It just helps with cooling and droping manufacturing costs. You can also fin more transistors in a smaller space but when its .13 vs .15 its not that big of a deal.

also, the radon 9800 and 9800 pro are not .13 micron.

 

[SidewinderX]

It doesn't "help a little with cooling" It makes a very large impace on cooling.


I'm almost positive the 9800pro has .13micron boards, beccause the 9200, the 9600, and the 9800 are the same series and they hall have .13micron.

 

[Arrowhead]

actually you're incorrect. the 9800pro is indeed 0.15micron. I believe the 9600 is ATI's first and only 0.13micron chip so far.