SHould have gotten a 9500 pro :( interesting article | Forums

[teambushido]

probably ben posted already but i came across it tonight so thought i would share. i have a 9600xt which has had the usual far cry deasktop crashes and wht nots, i think i have it resolved (crosses fingers) anyways now im looking into safely over clocking my card hehehehe. check out this framerate comparison over diff cards http://firingsquad.com/hardware/far_cry_ati/
gl hf i love CS

[teambushido]

probably ben posted already but i came across it tonight so thought i would share. i have a 9600xt which has had the usual far cry deasktop crashes and wht nots, i think i have it resolved (crosses fingers) anyways now im looking into safely over clocking my card hehehehe. check out this framerate comparison over diff cards http://firingsquad.com/hardware/far_cry_ati/
gl hf i love CS

[WarBrain.PT]

OMG! I was thinking of selling my 9500 pro to get a 9600xt
I thought 9600xt was much better than 9500pro.
Thx m8 4 the info

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[Fing3rz]

just get the 9800 pro it owns all for the price plus free shipping at new egg and get the oem u dont need the other crap u can dl at sites its at 199. right now at new egg

[MK153]

Im running a 9700 Pro and I run everything at high (auto-detect sets textures to medium... why?) and Im getting desirable framerates, but that benchmark has AA and AF on and is getting comparable results... by walk do they mean no explosions or other action?

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[scootertgm]

The 9500 Pro was a learning expierence by ATI, it has the same number of pipelines as a 9700 they were just disabled by software. You can get a bios flash and upgrade it to a 9700 and use all eight pipelines.

The 9600 only has four and so it will not perform quite as well. The 9500pro is accually a 9700pro with a govenor on it.

[mrmetal_53]

far cry also detected my system setting to medium with the following specs:

p4 2.0 ghz
radeon 9700 pro
768 mb ram
sb audgiy gamer

but i play with everything on high and water on ultra or uber high or whatever it is. the radeon 9700 pro has been my favorite purchase by far. the card is amazing and as proved by these benchmark, it even out-performs the 9800 on a lot of the tests.

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[teambushido]

well im hoping to find a 9800XT at the next computer show for 300 then im finished with vid cards for awhile.

[thedudemanguy]

yeah this is why I bought a 9500 pro a year ago and it's still a great mid range card... of course 9800 pro's are the same price now which is the new best mid range deal...