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Main => Buy/Sell/Trade - non-retail => Topic started by: Bloinkxp on April 08, 2005, 10:36:05 am
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Stolen from ATHD :o
http://www.pcpartsohio.com/BookDetail.aspx?item_id=133
Good card for MAME and decent 3D Acceleration.
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Does anyone know if these newer ATi cards can output 15khz arcade modes like the old ATi Rage cards used to?
Edit: To answer my own question, according to the AdvMame documentation, they can.
http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc.html
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Seems pretty high to me.
I would check on ebay. I wouldn't charge over 10 bucks for one. Good for some things.. sucky for games. The 8500 is really a huge leap back for gaming. It wasn't until the 9700 came out that ATI had a good 3d card. Good 2d card. GREAT TV card... but not 3d card.
And for 2d and TV you can get them pretty cheap on ebay.
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I got a barely-used (the guy said a month) ATI Radeon 9000 Pro 128mb off of ebay for $40 (including $15 shipping; it was really $25). It has DVI-out, S-Video-out, and composite-out, and is also a great video card. I played Soldier of Fortune 2 with 8x Anisotropic filtering and 8x Anti-Aliasing at 1024 x 768 with no artifacts at full speed. But my laptop's 9700... ;D
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I got a barely-used (the guy said a month) ATI Radeon 9000 Pro off of ebay for $40 (including $15 shipping; it was really $25). It has DVI-out, S-Video-out, and composite-out, and is also a great video card. I played Soldier of Fortune 2 with 8x Anisotropic filtering and 8x Anti-Aliasing at 1024 x 768 with no artifacts at full speed. But my laptop's 9700... ;D
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First off, I'm not sure the 8500 isn't a more advanced card than the 9000 Pro, you can't just go by the number series with ATI.
Secondly, that's a fair price, IMHO, but nothing I'd jump through hoops to get. I think I would test my luck with E-bay.
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Seems pretty high to me.
It is pretty high, when Crucial is selling refurb 128mb 9200 cards for $46.99:
http://www.crucial.com/store/PartSpecs.asp?imodule=CTRFBV9200SE128&cat=
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I think I read somewhere that the 9000 is a better card graphically than the 9200 though. I might be wrong.
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I think I read somewhere that the 9000 is a better card graphically than the 9200 though. I might be wrong.
Nope, I think the 9000 is basically a re-issued 7000, whereas the 9200 is similar to the 8500. (Unlike the 9200se, which isn't as good), but I might be wrong - that's what I meant earlier about the numbers.
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I dunno if it is the same card, but I own an 8500LE. It has pretty decent 3d support. It am pretty sure it was the best card on the market when i bought it a few yers ago if that is any indication. It is not on a computer that i actually use regularly anymore but the the most recent game i tried to play on it was Unreal tournament 2003. IIRC I was able to set it to max settings without any skipping. I think it displayed at 45 or 50 fps tho. I think It is probably a better idea to snoop around on newegg.com and see what type of cards they have for sale. For a lower priced card that is still decent, I would go for a 9200 or a 9600. The 9000 is a really crappy card. They are way worse than the 8500.
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This page has a sortable comparison table for most video chipsets made up to last year...
http://www.tech-report.com/etc/comparo/graphics/