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Name: Goldenknob
Date: January 2, 2003 at 20:07:34 Pacific
OS: XP Pro 1.33 Athlon
CPU/Ram: 512 SDRam
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I read that ATI cards are having problems with AMD chips..

Is this true?

I really would like to know everyones opinion...
I'm thinking of upgrading to a ATI 8500...64 or 128.... from an GForce 2 MMX 400...

But if anyone knows I'm trying to stay in a price range of the 8500..I think it would be the best bang for my bucks... if there are no problems... How are their drivers?..



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Response Number 1
Name: Goldenknob
Date: January 2, 2003 at 20:25:30 Pacific
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Oh yea..I do alot of gamming like.... battlefield 1942 and SOF 2 .... and so on.... is this a decent card for that?


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Response Number 2
Name: Goldenknob
Date: January 3, 2003 at 00:03:48 Pacific
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Okl I'm tired of waiting I'm going with the ATI 8500 64mb...it beats the one that I have greatly...

wish me luck...


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Response Number 3
Name: Marty
Date: January 3, 2003 at 00:19:04 Pacific
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Stick with Nvidia,,,ATI got tons of drivers issues, I had to replace my 8500 cuz I was having all kinda prob.
Get a GF4TI, the 4200 serie have a decent price range and gaming outscrore the 8500 by far
Good luck


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Name: raven_illusion
Date: January 3, 2003 at 04:45:59 Pacific
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Go with ATI, they have fixed there driver issues and have no problem with AMD, I run AIT with AMD and they work great, you will get a better card in the 8500, much better for gaming.


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Response Number 5
Name: jam
Date: January 3, 2003 at 10:21:46 Pacific
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I'd go with the ATI 8500. It blows away all of the GF4 MX cards & even beats the ATI Radeon 9000 & 9000 Pro. There isn't an nVidia card in the same price range that comes close.

http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20021218/vgacharts-05.html

http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20020418/vgacharts-03.html


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Response Number 6
Name: Marty
Date: January 3, 2003 at 10:59:26 Pacific
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Well that's kinda weird,with my 8500 I've tryed all the drivers there is available, Intel AGP as well and the all line ward,,
I was having all my fonts getting crashed and blurry, system lock up, video rendering very slow after just a couple hour of operation and since I change for an Nvidia GF4 TI not MX I havent got a single defectuosity and I only paid 250$ Cdn so that's about 100$ US I guess !!
It's your call
I run that on a P4 1,7Ghz on an asus mobo
good luck


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Response Number 7
Name: Goldenknob
Date: January 3, 2003 at 20:49:15 Pacific
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Thanks for the replies.... I went ahead and got the 8500 for 70 bucks...I think that it will be pretty good... There isn't a real dire need to get any faster at the moment...


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