thanks guys, karma when i'm unbanned -haffey (at Mutant's house)
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Poll
What's the best ATi brand?
| His | 3% | 3% - 1 | ||||
| Diamond | 3% | 3% - 1 | ||||
| Sapphire | 62% | 62% - 20 | ||||
| Asus | 15% | 15% - 5 | ||||
| Msi | 3% | 3% - 1 | ||||
| GeCube | 3% | 3% - 1 | ||||
| Gigabyte | 9% | 9% - 3 | ||||
| Palit | 0% | 0% - 0 | ||||
| VisionTek | 0% | 0% - 0 | ||||
| Total: 32 | ||||||
What? Lol, how did you get banned?Mutantsteak wrote:
thanks guys, karma when i'm unbanned -haffey (at Mutant's house)
I'd say Sapphire is the best too. It's the only brand I've ever used and it's served me well. It's too bad I can't use it in this new PCI-e computer.
My old one was an AGP X1650Pro with 256MB of VRAM, this one is PCI-e but it's only an X300 with a ridiculously low 64MB of V-RAM. The only thing allowing me to get away with playing things like Half-Life Deathmatch with steady framerates is the tweaks I checked in ATi Tray Tools.
It would be cool if Ray caught up with the ATi series and added support for newer cards in Tray Tools. Right now, I don't think it has support for any DX10 ATi cards.
My old one was an AGP X1650Pro with 256MB of VRAM, this one is PCI-e but it's only an X300 with a ridiculously low 64MB of V-RAM. The only thing allowing me to get away with playing things like Half-Life Deathmatch with steady framerates is the tweaks I checked in ATi Tray Tools.
It would be cool if Ray caught up with the ATi series and added support for newer cards in Tray Tools. Right now, I don't think it has support for any DX10 ATi cards.
He gets banned like every week, lolGooners wrote:
What? Lol, how did you get banned?Mutantsteak wrote:
thanks guys, karma when i'm unbanned -haffey (at Mutant's house)
Last edited by _j5689_ (2008-06-18 07:50:53)
Wait. Why downgrade like that?_j5689_ wrote:
I'd say Sapphire is the best too. It's the only brand I've ever used and it's served me well. It's too bad I can't use it in this new PCI-e computer.
My old one was an AGP X1650Pro with 256MB of VRAM, this one is PCI-e but it's only an X300 with a ridiculously low 64MB of V-RAM. The only thing allowing me to get away with playing things like Half-Life Deathmatch with steady framerates is the tweaks I checked in ATi Tray Tools.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
imo Sapphire then Powercolor.
I got this comp for free so I'm not gonna complain, it's got a faster Pentium 4 in it that's Hyper-threaded, it has support for a C2D (800MHz FSB) which I plan to order soon, it has support for SATA150, it's got PCI-e so it can actually take something faster than an X1950, it does DDR2, and it does dual channel RAM.Freezer7Pro wrote:
Wait. Why downgrade like that?_j5689_ wrote:
I'd say Sapphire is the best too. It's the only brand I've ever used and it's served me well. It's too bad I can't use it in this new PCI-e computer.
My old one was an AGP X1650Pro with 256MB of VRAM, this one is PCI-e but it's only an X300 with a ridiculously low 64MB of V-RAM. The only thing allowing me to get away with playing things like Half-Life Deathmatch with steady framerates is the tweaks I checked in ATi Tray Tools.
I've never had any of that before.
The only thing is that is has
That shitty graphics card
512MB of dual-channel DDR2, and my old one had 2GB of single channel DDR1
Last edited by _j5689_ (2008-06-18 08:03:49)
Sapphire, never had any problems
Me? (haffey?) I haven't been banned ever, except the temp now._j5689_ wrote:
He gets banned like every week, lolGooners wrote:
What? Lol, how did you get banned?Mutantsteak wrote:
thanks guys, karma when i'm unbanned -haffey (at Mutant's house)
I'm just at Mutant's house, posting, because I can't log in and I was at his house anyway.
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But why use that shitty X300, when the old rig is way more balanced? I mean, if it's for gaming, at least._j5689_ wrote:
I got this comp for free so I'm not gonna complain, it's got a faster Pentium 4 in it that's Hyper-threaded, it has support for a C2D (800MHz FSB) which I plan to order soon, it has support for SATA150, it's got PCI-e so it can actually take something faster than an X1950, it does DDR2, and it does dual channel RAM.Freezer7Pro wrote:
Wait. Why downgrade like that?_j5689_ wrote:
I'd say Sapphire is the best too. It's the only brand I've ever used and it's served me well. It's too bad I can't use it in this new PCI-e computer.
My old one was an AGP X1650Pro with 256MB of VRAM, this one is PCI-e but it's only an X300 with a ridiculously low 64MB of V-RAM. The only thing allowing me to get away with playing things like Half-Life Deathmatch with steady framerates is the tweaks I checked in ATi Tray Tools.
I've never had any of that before.
The only thing is that is has
That shitty graphics card
512MB of dual-channel DDR2, and my old one had 2GB of single channel DDR1
2GB DDR1, 2.4GHz P4 and X1650 is way better than 1GB DDR2, 3.2GHz P4 and X300...
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
The only ATi brand I ever owned was Visontek. I bought a Radeon 9100 and 9600Pro. The 9600Pro is still functioning after all these years. I put it into my father's rig, I wouldn't want it to go to waste after all these years.
I haven't had an Visiontek ATi card since the 9600Pro, so I don't know how their stuff fares with other brands now.
I haven't had an Visiontek ATi card since the 9600Pro, so I don't know how their stuff fares with other brands now.