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Originally Posted by Big Country
Does anyone have any idea which card would be better for gaming??? I am either going with the Radeon 9600XT w/ 256mb Ram or the Radeon X600 XT w/ 128mb Ram. I would really like to go with the X600 XT with 256mb Ram but I can't seem to find one anywhere. So I guess those are my options. Does anyone know which is faster? I have heard that the X600 is the same card as the 9600 but with the PCIE interface. Does the faster interface make up for the lack of ram? Any input would be helpfull. I need it to run Doom 3 without freaking out when there are more than 3 people on the screen. Right now I have the min. req. for Doom 3 except I have a 128mb video card (9200) and it crashes every 5 minutes. Now I have to spend another $1000 to play my $50 game.
I know this is probably in the wrong forum but does anyone really read the others?
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i was playing doom3 on a friends p4 2 ghz, 512 mb pc2100 ram, ati 9000xt 64mb (250/200) 80 gig diamond max 7200rpm system, granted i had to set the quality of the game to 800X600 low quality. but it played it without crashing once. and never really had any major slowdowns either, well except the long load times. there is a tweak you can do to the config file to change the cache memory for doom3. some people didnt notice much of a change others noticed quite alot. i noticed a slight performance increase on my machine. but not much.
you can get the ati 9600Xt 128 mb card from newegg.com for like 180 bucks. thats where i got mine from, and its sweet. it runs 525/650 core/ram speeds. also its with in a few fps of the nvidia 57ultra when testing it on aquamark3 and other test-beds. and it can be overclocked a fair ammount with ATItool. I would like to know where you found the 9600xt 256 mb card though.