Hey everyone, I just wanted to know your opinions on which card you think is a better buy. I have the Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 256MB card, but i think it has driver issues... I get all kinds of glitches and hang ups in my games and i've tried all the different drivers i could think of... I was going to go exchange it for either another Nvidia card (don't know which one yet) or get a Radeon 9600XT. I heard they are faster and better then the GeForce cards... if anyone has any input on what i should do please reply... Ohh and take a look at my system specs... I know they aren't the greatest, but shouldn't my games with either the 9600XT or 5700 run amazing still... At least at 1024*768 or even 800*600 in some cases... because right now i can't even get NHL 2004 to run properly in 800*600.... My comp is... AMD Athlon 1.2Ghz 512MB SDRAM Asus A7V133 Mobo AGP 4x Maxtor 80gig HD

Radeon 9600XT Better preformance! Radeon 9800XT Even better!

I have the same mobo as yours but different cpu and amount of ram...radeon 9600xt is an awesome card but if u got 50 bucks more u could get a retail of radeon 9800 pro...i got mine from local best buy store and it was 249.99 and has 50 bucks M-I-R...too bad there's no free game included:(... ASUS A7V133 KT133A Rev 1.09 AMD XP2000+ 1GB SDRAM PC133 Ati RAdeon 9800 Pro

Radeon 9600xt all the way

What PSU are you running? FX cards require a lot of power, so if you have a crappy one(300w or below), it may cause a lot of problems including hang-ups, glitches(a.k.a artifacting, white dots) and etc. Either that, or your card is defective... 9600xt is definelty a wiser choice, unless you play older games(Dx8 & below). Fx5700U seems to outperform 9600xt in most dx8 & ogl benchmarks. if you have some spare money, go for a 9800xt, you won't regret its performance... Asus P4S800 Pentium 4 2.6ghz @ 3.0ghz eVGA Geforce FX 5900 SE SB Audigy LS

Thanks guys, I picked up the 9600XT... it was about the same price as the 5700... so i just did a straight exchange. It's awsome... i don't experience anything even near the amount of slowdown i was getting before. Although an increase in performance where my overall comp is concerned will make the card even better. About the PSU... I thought that might have been the problem before too. The FX cards draw a lot of power, so i picked up a 420W and still had the same result... I't might have been a defective card, but i think it was just Nvidia's crappy drivers... anyway thanks again for the input... ToPo

I think its the other way around. First of all, bad drivers don't cause artifacting and hang-ups. defective cards do. nV doesn't have crappy drivers(although they have some problems with shaders/performance in games), with the latest 56.54 drivers, you can set up profiles for specific games, you can view your gpu temp. & case temp., and with coolbits.reg file you can overclock your gfx card without downloading an o/c tool. ATi on the other hand, have gfx cards that pwn, but a lot of people(like me) have experienced many problems including incompatibility etc. They are getting a little better though, but nV has by far better drivers support. Asus P4S800 Pentium 4 2.6ghz @ 3.03ghz eVGA GeForce FX 5900 SE SoundBlaster Audigy LS Kingston 512mb DDR400 The Way Its Meant To Be Played..