Geforce2 Ti or Radeon 7500?

[JoPalm]

Which one of the two would you choose and why?

 

[Don66]

I had a Radeon 7500 and the picture quality was great fast in games had 2 monitors hooked up it. Would of liked to have tried the DVI and video out. The drivers were pretty good. worked great with XP.

Now I have a Gainward Geforce2 Ti 500XP(I'm working on trying as many video cards as I can) faster than the 7500.
it has VIVO am having fun with the video in.

I think that the 7500 has a better picture.

It all comes down to what features you want??

I like both, but I think my next card will be the Radeon 8500

 

[Bovinicus]

I prefer the 7500 because of it's hardware DVD decoder and higher quality RAMDAC.

 

[JoPalm]

Don are you talking about the gf2 ti or gf3 ti500?

 

[Goldfish]

He is talking about the GF2, Gainward is just giving it a hyped up name, probably to confuse people.

 

[JoPalm]

Is the GF2 Ti noticeably faster Don?

 

[Don66]

<< Is the GF2 Ti noticeably faster Don? >>



In RTCW I noticed a boost, MaxPayne is faster also.
Ran 3dmark2k and gained 400points with the Geforce over the 7500.

It is abit faster, but not a mindblowing increase

 

[JoPalm]

Are the drivers for the Radeon better now than they were..say when they were released?

 

[Don66]

I had no real problems with the Radeon drivers, it really depends on your system config.
And if you do a clean install of the drivers...ect..

 

[Jittos]

I would buy a geforce3 ti200. i heard many of them have great overclocking optential... can overclock it to ti500. now that's alotta free performace

 

[Jittos]

oopps.. u asked about geforce2 Ti. well I heard it's pretty much the same as geforce2 pro... I'd go for 7500

 

[JoPalm]

Thx Jitto. Ya I don't have enough $$ for a GF3 Ti200 .

 

[tapir]

The Radeon 7500 beats on the GF2 Ti by a considerable margin in Anand's latest review with the future Unreal engine. And it's supposed to O/C well. So I'd go with a 7500.

 

[insdav3]

I bought my Visiontek Xtasy Geforce3 ti 200 at a computer show a couple weeks ago for only 149. I've never seen that card aywhere that cheap~ but now as the prices come down you can find them for 140-150

I'd be willing to spend 150 but nothing over that.,....... well maybe if i got rid of this 1993 DELL 17' monitor ...heh

 

[JoPalm]

I've never heard of that brand, visiontek? Is it good? I know there are rebates for them right now..smt like $75 CDN.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

I've said this in other threads but I'll say it again, the Radeon 7500 (Retail) is an OC'ing beast. I've brought mine from 290 core / 230 mem (460 effective) stock to 330 core / 300 mem (600 effective) with only stock cooling and no mods. It completes 3dmark2001 loops without crashing or artifacts. DVD and 2-D quality are top notch as well.

I guess you know where my vote goes. You can get the official ATI Retail for $200 CDN at compusmart.com

-Ice

 

[Chipset]

If you wait until the Geforce 4 is released the price of the GF3 ti200s should fall.

 

[AA0]

The Radeon 7500 never had driver problems, only the initial 8500 did.

 

[BFG10K]

I'd definitely get the Radeon 7500. It's usually faster than the Ti in most cases (in some cases significantly) plus it has guaranteed good 2D image quality and edges out the nVidia card in terms of DVD quality.

 

[JoPalm]

Icecool how did you oc your radeon 7500?

 

[JoPalm]

^

 

[BFG10K]

Icecool how did you oc your radeon 7500?

Probably using the Radeon Tweaker. Check out rage3d for more info.

 

[JoPalm]

Thx BFG. Any one else have any opinions between the 2 cards?

 

[hudsonhauck]

I don't really have any opinions about the two because I am in the market myself and was curious as to which one I should buy. Newegg has "ATI Radeon 7500 64MB DDR AGP OEM" for 96 + shipping. Is that a good price? It has DVI. Is it worth the extra 50 bucks for the gf3 ti200?