Price watch?...A....good....deal..?

[kira_blade]

I got this site from Price Watch and it has a gfx card i want, its the Ati READEON 9000 Pro, its 90 bucks is it worth it, and is this a good card? http://www.target-sale.com/tusa/item...gp/i03603.html also do these guys ship to canada...:sweat:

[kira_blade]

i am worried about the part that says

System Requirement
Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron®, AMD® K6/Duron®/Athlon®/Athlon XP® or compatible with AGP 2X (3.3v), 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (2X/4X/8X).
64MB of system memory
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
DVD playback requires DVD drive

I dont have a dvd drive, does this mean i cant run the gfx card? or does it mean i cant run dvd playback?

[Cecil118]

na. that just means if you want to watch dvd's on your comp, you need a dvd drive. no need to worry. it will work with a cd drive just fine

[kira_blade]

ok i got another question, it says its made by Compro Technology? Is this the developer or publisher or what? :sweat: heres the site http://www.target-sale.com/tusa/item...gp/i03603.html (same one as my first post)

[Osaka]

It's a powerfull AGP card, and steal at only $90 considering the ATI home site it selling it for $120. Though personaly I'd go with n-vidia since they are setting the trend in the video hardware market when it comes to games. The ATI series of cards are more geared for multi-media platforms and video editing suites. This is deffinately a great card for the price, but if you're gonna be using for games only, I'd suggest keeping this in the back of your mind if you don't find anything else. It has alot of fluff. ~^^~

Also, be sure that your motherboard has an AGP slot for the card. If not, it wont go in. ^^ The AGP slot is smaller than the white PCI slots and is usually brown in color. Some motherboards have an extended modem slot of the same color which is even smaller, so the insides of computers gets confusing really quick if your not sure what you are doing. gambare~!!~

[kira_blade]

geforce eh? hows this? http://mate.pricewatch.com/scripts/b.asp?3315857 its a geforce ti 4200, is it made by a good manufracturer?

[Osaka]

Hrmm.. makes me wish I had waited for the prices to drop. I paid $150 for mine and its only 32MB video card. This is a great card, but I dont know who Inno3D is. The fact that they licenced the nvidia chipset is deffinately a plus, and I would pick it up if I had the cash and/or the need for a new video card. I am biased, so don't put too much wieght into what I say. ^^ At this point in my career, if John Carmak from Id softwares says nvidia good, then I say nvidia good. Of course sometimes I wished that the VooDoo3DFX cards would come back. They were nice for a while.

[kira_blade]

is this card better than the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro? Is it better for gaming even though it is only 64mb and the ati is 128?

[Osaka]

Yes it is better. The ATI is boasting the 128MB of RAM because it has a "so so" fill rate and texel rate. Fill rate is how many 3d triangles it can draw per second, and texel rate.. well that's complicated. The simplified version is how many pixels of a texture it can traw per second. The ATI is somewhere in the thousands, while the nvidia is somewhere in the millions. The nvidia is a graphics card that is made for gaming, while ATI sells to the general multi-media consumer. Both should perform the needs of FFXI, but I would have more confidence in the nvidia than the ATI.
~^^~ Im off to gaming, I'll lurk on the boards later on. ~JYAN~

[CannibalChris]

Thats a damn good deal, ve seen 9000pro for $200CND(125USD)

[TenTako]

where were u lookin'? ive seen many 9500 PRO's for only 160-175$ CAN