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My machine has been ATI born again!!
Just upgraded to a Radeon 9600SE from a FX5200 which was upgraded from
a GeForce 2TI (iron horse of a card). WOW! what a difference!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOHAA is SWEEEEET on Radeon 9600SE!! No more Nvidia for me, I'm a new ATI converted man! |
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On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:57:09 GMT, Dunny Rummy wrote:
Just upgraded to a Radeon 9600SE from a FX5200 which was upgraded from a GeForce 2TI (iron horse of a card). WOW! what a difference!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOHAA is SWEEEEET on Radeon 9600SE!! No more Nvidia for me, I'm a new ATI converted man! Now go check out www.omegacorner.com for his 'tweaked' ati drivers. They will increse your IQ quality and smoothness in games. Read the whole site before installing and pay close attention to the readme file before you install. Congrats on the new card and welcome to the club. I switched from a TI4400 GF to a 9700 pro and won't be going back to Nvidia now that I've seen the light. Pluvious |
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wrote in message ... Yeah, bet you won't be saying that for long. I went from a GF2 to a 9600 pro, and had nothing but crashes & lockups. On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:57:09 GMT, Dunny Rummy wrote: Just upgraded to a Radeon 9600SE from a FX5200 which was upgraded from a GeForce 2TI (iron horse of a card). WOW! what a difference!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOHAA is SWEEEEET on Radeon 9600SE!! No more Nvidia for me, I'm a new ATI converted man! ......and if everyone else had that problem ATI wouldnt sell a card. Do you look at the NVidia group? Plenty of crashes and lock ups there too. Have you let everyone know what the symptoms are so they can try to help? I have a 9600 Pro here and its more stable than the GF3 Ti200 was. Pluvious - glad its all working. Enjoy it, Shawk |
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On 11/24/2003 10:57 AM Dunny Rummy befouled our nation with:
Just upgraded to a Radeon 9600SE from a FX5200 which was upgraded from a GeForce 2TI (iron horse of a card). WOW! what a difference!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOHAA is SWEEEEET on Radeon 9600SE!! No more Nvidia for me, I'm a new ATI converted man! Why do you go for cards with one testicle removed? -- "All right kids, are you ready for the Neverland Ranch puppet show?" Steve [Inglo] |
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Dunny Rummy wrote in message . ..
Just upgraded to a Radeon 9600SE from a FX5200 which was upgraded from a GeForce 2TI (iron horse of a card). WOW! what a difference!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOHAA is SWEEEEET on Radeon 9600SE!! No more Nvidia for me, I'm a new ATI converted man! As said before, get the Omega drivers and enjoy a graphic experience as never before! Full Quality, Full Performance... it's sweet! Though not many games yet incorperate DX9 and titles like Max Pain II only use Pixel Shaders 2.0 for a few effects ( like the mirrors ) you'll find that playing games will go smooth like hell :-) |
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On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:57:09 GMT, Dunny Rummy wrote:
Just upgraded to a Radeon 9600SE from a FX5200 which was upgraded from a GeForce 2TI (iron horse of a card). WOW! what a difference!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOHAA is SWEEEEET on Radeon 9600SE!! No more Nvidia for me, I'm a new ATI converted man! If you bought it from a store, I'd take it back and get a 9600 at least, if no a PRO or XT. Yes, its better than the 5200 - but not by much. Its 64bit memory is very damaging. Its slower than the 9000Pro and Ti4200. Its not too bad of a card for $130... but its half the card of the $150 ATI 9600 by another brand on the shelf. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1910&p=20 -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
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I assumed I bought a factory ATI.
I got it from COMPUSA http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...C29B804CE4E17F Below is a report generated first by futuremark The box reads "ATI Radeon 9600SE" So are you saying the SE edition is less than the Pro or just the 9600? I had hoped I grabbed the right 9600. Don't tell me I wound up with a weak card (((( I cant really afford a 9800PRO but I want SOME bragging rights from my old Geforce 2TI and certainly the crappy 5200FX I had. BTW In hardware device manager it lists the ATI Radeon 9600SE twice (one as a secondary). --see report below-- Is this normal (seeing this is my first ATI card)? Am I a newbie in computers? No. Did I unistall the old Nvidia drivers prior to installing the new card? Yes. Thanks for the help group! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CPU: Manufacturer AMD Family AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Internal Clock 1.5 GHz Internal Clock Maximum 3.0 GHz External Clock 133.0 MHz Socket Designation Socket A Upgrade ZIF Socket Capabilities MMX, CMov, RDTSC, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE Version AMD Athlon(tm) XP ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- memory: Total Physical Memory 768 MB Free Physical Memory 522 MB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MOBO: Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC. Model A7N8X Version REV 1.xx BIOS Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD BIOS Version ASUS A7N8X Deluxe ACPI BIOS Rev 1004 BIOS Release Date 05/14/2003 BIOS Properties Plug and Play, Flash, AGP AGP Revision 3.0 Rate 4x, 8x (4x enabled) Available Rate 0x0000000c Selected Rate 0x00000004 Aperture Size 0 B Sideband Addressing supported (disabled) Fast Write supported (disabled) -------------------------------------------------------------------- RADEON 9600 SERIES Driver 6.14.10.6387 Description RADEON 9600 SERIES Manufacturer ATI Technologies Inc. Total Local Video Memory 128 MB Total Local Texture Memory 128 MB Total AGP Memory 0 B Driver File ati2dvag.dll Driver Version 6.14.10.6387 Driver Details 7.94-030917m-011595C-ATI Driver Date 9-12-2003 Driver WHQL Certified false Max Texture Width 2048 px Max Texture Height 2048 px Max User Clipping Planes 6 Max Active Hardware Lights 8 Max Texture Blending Stages 8 Textures In Single Pass 8 Vertex Shader Version 2.0 Pixel Shader Version 2.0 Max Vertex Blend Matrices 37 Max Texture Coordinates 8 VGA Memory Clock 195.8 MHz VGA Core Clock 324.0 MHz --------------------------------------------------------------------------- HD Capacities: Hard Disk Drive 1/6 Name WDC WD200BB-75AUA1 Manufacturer (Standard disk drives) Capacity 18.64 GB Model WDC WD200BB-75AUA1 Interface Type IDE Hard Disk Drive 2/6 Name WDC WD12 00BB-53CAA0 SCSI Disk Device Manufacturer (Standard disk drives) Capacity 111.79 GB Model WDC WD12 00BB-53CAA0 SCSI Disk Device Interface Type SCSI Hard Disk Drive 3/6 Name WDC WD20 00JB-34EVA0 SCSI Disk Device Manufacturer (Standard disk drives) Capacity 186.31 GB Model WDC WD20 00JB-34EVA0 SCSI Disk Device Interface Type SCSI Hard Disk Drive 4/6 Name WDC WD20 0BB-00AUA1 SCSI Disk Device Manufacturer (Standard disk drives) Capacity 18.64 GB Model WDC WD20 0BB-00AUA1 SCSI Disk Device Interface Type SCSI Hard Disk Drive 5/6 Name WDC WD40 0BB-00CLB0 SCSI Disk Device Manufacturer (Standard disk drives) Capacity 37.27 GB Model WDC WD40 0BB-00CLB0 SCSI Disk Device Interface Type SCSI Hard Disk Drive 6/6 Name WDC WD60 0BB-32CXA0 SCSI Disk Device Manufacturer (Standard disk drives) Capacity 55.90 GB Model WDC WD60 0BB-32CXA0 SCSI Disk Device Interface Type SCSI On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:46:07 GMT, Darthy wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:57:09 GMT, Dunny Rummy wrote: Just upgraded to a Radeon 9600SE from a FX5200 which was upgraded from a GeForce 2TI (iron horse of a card). WOW! what a difference!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOHAA is SWEEEEET on Radeon 9600SE!! No more Nvidia for me, I'm a new ATI converted man! If you bought it from a store, I'd take it back and get a 9600 at least, if no a PRO or XT. Yes, its better than the 5200 - but not by much. Its 64bit memory is very damaging. Its slower than the 9000Pro and Ti4200. Its not too bad of a card for $130... but its half the card of the $150 ATI 9600 by another brand on the shelf. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1910&p=20 |
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what is a SE have to offer what pro can offer? any ideas??? wabn abuy a new videocard. "Dunny Rummy" wrote in message ... I assumed I bought a factory ATI. I got it from COMPUSA http://www.compusa.com/products/prod...308212&pfp=src h1&sid=3FC29B804CE4E17F Below is a report generated first by futuremark The box reads "ATI Radeon 9600SE" So are you saying the SE edition is less than the Pro or just the 9600? I had hoped I grabbed the right 9600. Don't tell me I wound up with a weak card (((( I cant really afford a 9800PRO but I want SOME bragging rights from my old Geforce 2TI and certainly the crappy 5200FX I had. BTW In hardware device manager it lists the ATI Radeon 9600SE twice (one as a secondary). --see report below-- Is this normal (seeing this is my first ATI card)? Am I a newbie in computers? No. Did I unistall the old Nvidia drivers prior to installing the new card? Yes. Thanks for the help group! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- CPU: Manufacturer AMD Family AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Internal Clock 1.5 GHz Internal Clock Maximum 3.0 GHz External Clock 133.0 MHz Socket Designation Socket A Upgrade ZIF Socket Capabilities MMX, CMov, RDTSC, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE Version AMD Athlon(tm) XP -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------- memory: Total Physical Memory 768 MB Free Physical Memory 522 MB -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- MOBO: Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC. Model A7N8X Version REV 1.xx BIOS Vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD BIOS Version ASUS A7N8X Deluxe ACPI BIOS Rev 1004 BIOS Release Date 05/14/2003 BIOS Properties Plug and Play, Flash, AGP AGP Revision 3.0 Rate 4x, 8x (4x enabled) Available Rate 0x0000000c Selected Rate 0x00000004 Aperture Size 0 B Sideband Addressing supported (disabled) Fast Write supported (disabled) -------------------------------------------------------------------- RADEON 9600 SERIES Driver 6.14.10.6387 Description RADEON 9600 SERIES Manufacturer ATI Technologies Inc. Total Local Video Memory 128 MB Total Local Texture Memory 128 MB Total AGP Memory 0 B Driver File ati2dvag.dll Driver Version 6.14.10.6387 Driver Details 7.94-030917m-011595C-ATI Driver Date 9-12-2003 Driver WHQL Certified false Max Texture Width 2048 px Max Texture Height 2048 px Max User Clipping Planes 6 Max Active Hardware Lights 8 Max Texture Blending Stages 8 Textures In Single Pass 8 Vertex Shader Version 2.0 Pixel Shader Version 2.0 Max Vertex Blend Matrices 37 Max Texture Coordinates 8 VGA Memory Clock 195.8 MHz VGA Core Clock 324.0 MHz -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - HD Capacities: Hard Disk Drive 1/6 Name WDC WD200BB-75AUA1 Manufacturer (Standard disk drives) Capacity 18.64 GB Model WDC WD200BB-75AUA1 Interface Type IDE Hard Disk Drive 2/6 Name WDC WD12 00BB-53CAA0 SCSI Disk Device Manufacturer (Standard disk drives) Capacity 111.79 GB Model WDC WD12 00BB-53CAA0 SCSI Disk Device Interface Type SCSI Hard Disk Drive 3/6 Name WDC WD20 00JB-34EVA0 SCSI Disk Device Manufacturer (Standard disk drives) Capacity 186.31 GB Model WDC WD20 00JB-34EVA0 SCSI Disk Device Interface Type SCSI Hard Disk Drive 4/6 Name WDC WD20 0BB-00AUA1 SCSI Disk Device Manufacturer (Standard disk drives) Capacity 18.64 GB Model WDC WD20 0BB-00AUA1 SCSI Disk Device Interface Type SCSI Hard Disk Drive 5/6 Name WDC WD40 0BB-00CLB0 SCSI Disk Device Manufacturer (Standard disk drives) Capacity 37.27 GB Model WDC WD40 0BB-00CLB0 SCSI Disk Device Interface Type SCSI Hard Disk Drive 6/6 Name WDC WD60 0BB-32CXA0 SCSI Disk Device Manufacturer (Standard disk drives) Capacity 55.90 GB Model WDC WD60 0BB-32CXA0 SCSI Disk Device Interface Type SCSI On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:46:07 GMT, Darthy wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:57:09 GMT, Dunny Rummy wrote: Just upgraded to a Radeon 9600SE from a FX5200 which was upgraded from a GeForce 2TI (iron horse of a card). WOW! what a difference!!!!!!!!!!!!! MOHAA is SWEEEEET on Radeon 9600SE!! No more Nvidia for me, I'm a new ATI converted man! If you bought it from a store, I'd take it back and get a 9600 at least, if no a PRO or XT. Yes, its better than the 5200 - but not by much. Its 64bit memory is very damaging. Its slower than the 9000Pro and Ti4200. Its not too bad of a card for $130... but its half the card of the $150 ATI 9600 by another brand on the shelf. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1910&p=20 |
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:00:20 GMT, "Sooo Sad"
wrote: what is a SE have to offer what pro can offer? any ideas??? wabn abuy a new videocard. How much $$$ you got? Gotta go, Magwheelz |
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