What Video Card
 

Hey. I am looking to buy a new video card right now. I wantto get either a PowerColor Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB for 113$, a PowerColor Radeon 9500 Pro 128MB for 130$, or a PowerColor Radeon 9800SE 128MB 256-bit for 120$ but I don't know which one to get. I would be using this for gaming in games like Call of Duty and Battlefield Vietnam. Any suggestions on which card to get are greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I believe the 9800SE uses 8 pipelines? If so get the 9800SE. Stay away from the 9600s!

edit: I just did a little research, the 9800SE only uses 4 pipelines just like the 9500Pro. But the 9800SE has higher clocks so I say get the 9800SE.

Edit again: If I were you, I would spend a little more and get the 9800, not the 9800SE. Should be about 200 bucks.

Edit, last one: Having only 4 pipelines with hurt your performance big time when using AA/AF and PS2.0.

Newegg has the Powercolor 9800Pro for $219 with free shipping which I think is really good, there's also a Sapphire 9800Pro for $218 also with free shipping. I paid 400 bucks for my 9700Pro!

Yea, well I would get that if I had that much money to pay for right now. But I only got about 130$ to work with right now. That's why I am looking at the refurbs on newegg.

I started browsing the newegg site a little more since I haven't been there in a while and guess what I found!!!! ATI All-In-Wonder 9800Pro for $219 shipped! The only thing though is that it's Bare OEM meaning you don't get any cables, adapters, the remote or software (the Powercolor comes with Tomb Raider AOD, cables, and VGA adapter).

Oh ok. Then I would get the 9800SE. AA and AF seems to be the big thing now but I don't bother with that. I just leave it to application preference.

What card do you have right now?

Right now I got a XFX FX5600. I made the mistake of buying it a few months back and have regretted it ever since. I can sell that for about 60-70$, hopefully, so maybe I have more to spend then I thought. But we will see, I still am not sure. I have been checking out the benches of a ton of cards lately and really don't know what to get.

The best value card for performance ATM seems to be the 9800pro. You can easliy get an OEM version for £130 now.

Either way try to get the 9800 chipset rather than the 9600

Have you decided which video card you're going to get?

why not roll the dice get the 9800se from powercolor (just make sure the ram modulas are laid out in the "L" paternt) and then softmod the sucker to a 9800 Pro card..you get a 50/50 chance you wll get a 9800 pro for free and if not you have a 9800SE that blows the doors off the 9600s

I ended up grabbing a BFG FX5900 off of newegg for only 120$. It seemed like a good deal so I bought it. Can anyone tell me if this was a good choice or a good card or did I just waste more money on buying another bad card. Thanks.

Sounds pretty good to me. Nice price.
It's still a good card.

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