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pHaestus · 01-27-2003, 10:13 AM

NVIDIA gfx are in the xbox, and MS is apparently about to buy Vivendi games. This means Halflife2, Counterstrike2, ALL of Blizzard's games, etc etc. So NVIDIA isn't exactly hurting. They will be the gfx card maker in the next gaming system that everyone buys. That gaming system just won't be a PC.

ATi cards have always benchmarked well, but had issues with not actually rendering all the textures. I know the original Radeon sucked in this regard, and have heard of some issues with the 8500 as well. Has this all been cleared up with the 9700?

I am soon to be in the market for a new video card. I was thinking I would wait til the FX and r350 came out and then hope for a ti4600 or 9700pro in the $100-150US range. With the FX showing little performance advantage over the 9700, though, I wonder how much the 9700 pro will drop in price?

01-27-2003, 10:13 AM	#6
pHaestus Big Player Making Big Money Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: irc.lostgeek.com #procooling.com Posts: 4,782	NVIDIA gfx are in the xbox, and MS is apparently about to buy Vivendi games. This means Halflife2, Counterstrike2, ALL of Blizzard's games, etc etc. So NVIDIA isn't exactly hurting. They will be the gfx card maker in the next gaming system that everyone buys. That gaming system just won't be a PC. ATi cards have always benchmarked well, but had issues with not actually rendering all the textures. I know the original Radeon sucked in this regard, and have heard of some issues with the 8500 as well. Has this all been cleared up with the 9700? I am soon to be in the market for a new video card. I was thinking I would wait til the FX and r350 came out and then hope for a ti4600 or 9700pro in the $100-150US range. With the FX showing little performance advantage over the 9700, though, I wonder how much the 9700 pro will drop in price?