which is the better graphics card

[old.hazzeryoda]

Which is better. GeForce2 GTS 32MB Ram
or ATI Radeon 32mb SDR (apparently not DDR)

any ideas?

 

[Perplex]

lol...radeon is fucking shite. why? cos it's made by ATi...meaning the drivers for it will have been coded by blind, mute and deaf paraplegic monkeys on crack.

Stick with the Geffer

 

[old.MeanMrMustard]

ooo forgot to tell you Hazzard, i got me a Geforce 2 (mx but still as fast as shite).

 

[kan]

hihihihihi

 

[old.TUG]

I'd go the geforce route. The Radeon is a nice card but the drivers are wank as mr purplehex said.

 

[old.MeanMrMustard]

Anyway, i think 1 of the main selling points of the radeon was the fast DDR memory.

 

[bodhi]

hehehehe I had to get involved on this one.

A GF2 GTS will probably be a better bet than the SDR Radeon. The SDR was meant to compete against the GF2 MX. If you can get a 32Meg DDR Radeon its a different story however. Then I'd go with the Radeon.

ATi's drivers reputation is a bit of a myth these days. The new Radeon drivers are suppsedly really rather good, and there's a new unified set on the way soon (supposedly). The only issues that remain are mainly to do with VIA chipsets, but most graphics drivers apart from 3dfx's seem to have issues with these.

 

[throdgrain]

i got a gf mx and it aint THAT pretty but it is bloody fast!

 

[old.hazzeryoda]

Hi Tom,
at last you have a Geforce2.... lucky bastard. I'm still on my CirrusLogic GL5446 with 1MB RAM. Anyway, the new comps in the pipeline. either a poweroid Athlon 900mhz or Mesh 1ghz, dunno yet. see ya soon.

 

[old.MeanMrMustard]

Git, i will be stuck with my Celery 400 pile o' p00p.

 

[old.MeanMrMustard]

You had better get a software bundle with this new comp, i wanna play a few more games )))

 

[Wij]

Radeon SDR vs GeForce2 GTS ?? They're not the same category really. Radeon DDR competes with GTS but not SDR.

 

[old.Luap2]

I've been running a Radeon 64mb DDR for a few weeks and can't fault it. No idea of speed comparisons as I've never owned a GEForce longer than 2 hours. (Pile of crap drivered shite)

The Radeon is way faster then the V5 5500 I took out, everything looks just as pretty too. 3DMark score around 3000 in 1024*768 @ 32bit and the rest default.

 

[old.MeanMrMustard]

3000 i get 3000 with my MX running on a celeron400 128mbram etc. I would expect more from a radeon 64ddr.

Anyway, get a GF2 hazzer, it is amazeing, whatever you do don't get a V5 because it is cheap, My friend had 1 and it was p00p. The FSAA is meant to be nice but that is about it. No support for T&L which is freaking nice (although only a handfull of games now are programmed specifically for Hardware T&L, the games which do support it look f00king great.

 

[bodhi]

It's well known that 3DMark is optimized for the GF2, so 3000 in that res for a Radeon isnt too bad at all.

 

[old.MeanMrMustard]

ahh right, on the mad onion forums someone was flamed cause he got a low score with his radeon. I guess i have an answere now

 

[old.Anatoly]

Only 3000 with a DDR?
You must be doing somenthing wrong, I get just over 4600 (at 1024*768*16) with my 32SDR, and thats only with a 750 processor

 

[Wij]

Hehe. "Mine's bigger than yours!" etc...

 

[old.Luap2]

Bodhi, Cheers for that 3DMark thing, I was most puzzled why the score was so low but UT and Q3a flies along with all the candy up full.

 

[bodhi]

If you ever have any problems with your Radeon, the boards at http://www.rage3d.com are a great source of help. They are possibly the nicest people on the net, and no matter your problem, someone will always try and help you out. They didnt even laugh at me for still having a Rage Fury (much)

 

[Wij]

Hahahahahahhhhhhaaaaaaa

etc...

ooh, my sides.

OK, I'm better now. Sorry

 

[old.MeanMrMustard]

 

[old.hazzeryoda]

Thanks everyone, I just hadnt a freaking clue what SDR was....

I wont get any software bundled in the way of games, need to keep the price down.... Incedentally, Have you played Hitman????? JESUS!

anyway, Geforce it is then. Unless i can upgrade to a Radeon 64mb DDR. NO. too much.


PS MrMustard, go here for an insane amount of help for coursework: http://www.courseworkhelp.co.uk http://www.studentcentral.com I found all of the coursework for my subjects here. Its not cheating, its using your resources wisely...

 

[old.MeanMrMustard]

Never really like hitman, it didn't have somthing that i crave for in games but sadly i don't know what that thing is. I enjoyed playing it but i didn't buy it. Mainly because it doesn't have multiplayer and killing AI is a lot less entertaining than killing a real peep.

 

[Wij]

Err, what's hitman ?

 

[granny]

Hitman = assasination FPS kinda game, fucking HARD, and hampered by serious control issues - made it pretty much unplayable for me so I gave up. Looked nice though.

 

[Wij]

Ah. Bolox to it then