irdawood Posted October 15, 2001 Share Posted October 15, 2001 hi im in the market to purchase a video card i was thinking of either radeon 8500 or elsa gladiac 920 Geforce 3?? any ideas thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Phatty Posted October 22, 2001 Share Posted October 22, 2001 I prefer the GeForce cards over the radeon cards, they outpreform the radeon cards on most benchmark tests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikimotel Posted October 22, 2001 Share Posted October 22, 2001 Definitly any Nvidia based card. Be sure to get one with at least a 350Mhz RAMDAC. ATI driver support s(beep)s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baphomet_irl Veteran Posted October 22, 2001 Veteran Share Posted October 22, 2001 ill admit driver support sux - but as an owner of a geforce2 and a RADEON ive found that RADEON image quality is better, and in OpenGL it doesnt botch up the texcompression as ALL Geforce's do anyway at higer res's the RADEON 64mb DDR (my card) holds it's own and is only very marginally slower than the GeForce2 Ultra... 8500 is gonna kik ass!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tikimotel Posted October 22, 2001 Share Posted October 22, 2001 I've swapped GTS's cause the RAMDAC of my Previous one was, well , CRAP. It was some nameless label now I've got a ASUS V7700. So there is definitly quality diferences between "Nvidia" card manufacturers. You can't say image quality of "ALL" nvidia cards is crap. Btw, ATI 8500 only uses billinear filtering as a basis for Anisotropic filtering wich results in lower quality 3d rendering. Trillinear is much more smoother becuase it gives you more "levels" in depth perseption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baphomet_irl Veteran Posted October 22, 2001 Veteran Share Posted October 22, 2001 well i can to a certain extent because i meant geforce's and nowadays that is pretty much everything.... and they do all have the tex compress prob, anyway ill rephrase it - i meant texture quality.... even with nvidias crappy force DXTC3 'workaround' for texcompress bug - the skies in Q3 look like lo quality JPEG's. When I had my GeForce 2 and i read stuff about the tex compress bug, I was like 'yeah, yeah but do you really notice it?'. Then i got my RADEON and INSTANTLY noticed it...... also ati have always had the lead in 2d, and DVD plaback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshalus Veteran Posted October 22, 2001 Veteran Share Posted October 22, 2001 I suggest getting a 3dfx card! They have the best techincal support and the most updated drivers, and it works very well with XP. ... ... I'm kidding guys :) Get nVidia, definatly... very worth the money! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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