Originally posted by: xerosleep
I just got my 9500 pro too. I'm taking it back though. Stock it was barely faster than my overclocked geforce 3 ti 200. And the pro didn't want to overclock much either. There will be a huge difference for you though. Hope you enjoy it.
Barely faster than your GF3? At what playing CS? Try putting a little 16X, and 6X action to both of those cards and then come and tell us all which one is faster.
Originally posted by: xerosleep
I just got my 9500 pro too. I'm taking it back though. Stock it was barely faster than my overclocked geforce 3 ti 200. And the pro didn't want to overclock much either. There will be a huge difference for you though. Hope you enjoy it.
LOL!!!Originally posted by: marvie
I suspect that either you are smoking crack while posting, or you've got some messed-up config there.
To each his/her own I guess. And for now UT2003 IS the only game I really play. May 15th will see the release of Enter The Matrix, I will then be playing that game, too. And when Half Life 2 comes out I'll play that game. Then Doom 3... The Radeon 9500 Pro will be the better card to use for all those games from everything I have read online.Originally posted by: xerosleep
^^^ That seems like a waste to me. The ti4200 beats out the 9500 pro now in a few tests and even the ti 500 won a couple. The 4400 is faster the majority of the time. I think you're going to be disappointed once you get the card if you're going from a 4200. It did great in AA in UT2k3 but other games it's not that great with AA/AF.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1812&p=5
If you notice also in some games it was only faster by like 5 FPS compared to the ti 500. With jedi knoight 2 and UT2k3 it's much faster though.
And with newer games like splintercell where the 9500 pro only gets 12 FPS do you think you're going to turn on AA/AF and drop the FPS down to 8? No you'll have to leave it off just so it's playable.
So anyway it's not my config. Thats what the card does in the reviews. That's not worth it to me. Maybe for you but not me.
I didn't post the orginal review of the 9500 pro because I don't think that would be fair since I think the new drivers made it a lot better but in that review it got beat out by the 4400 in every single test (except AA/AF). It's a good card to upgrade from an MX or geforce 2 but not a geforce 3 and epecially not a geforce 4 (unless you only play ut2k3).
Originally posted by: xerosleep
8400 in 3dmark with geforce 3 and 8800 with 9500 pro. p4 2.4 ghz. 1 gig of pc 3200