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O.P. Video card reccomendation
I have someone offering me a good deal on a new graphics card, to upgrade my on board video. The card in question is a ati radeon 9250SE, 128 MB

anyone have any experiences with this particular card?

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RE: Video card reccomendation
Kinda old isn't it? That card costs about €30 in the store.

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RE: Video card reccomendation
I used to have this card. Could just about play grand theth auto with it. :/ And its only Direct X 8. :-/
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RE: Video card reccomendation
Firstly, forget that card lol.

Secondly, what's your current system? It's no use buying a 350$ card if it's going to bottleneck with the CPU / RAM.. :)

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O.P. RE: Video card reccomendation
the deal is, I'm trading a 512 DDR2 stick for it
my current specs are only 1.66GHz Athlon XP and 256Mb 2700 system RAM. I really doubt that the bottleneck will occur with the vid card... 8-)
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And its only Direct X 8. :-/
specs on AMD's site say 9

in any case, its an upgrade to what I have now, 32Mb shared on board video
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RE: Video card reccomendation
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specs on AMD's site say 9
It says something more like 8.1 :p

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http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon9200/radeon9200/specs.html

Full support for DirectX ® 8.1 programmable pixel and vertex shaders in hardware

By the way, it's still a deal if you trade a 512MB DDR2 module for it.
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RE: Video card reccomendation
http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon9200/radeon9200/specs.html

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# Full support for DirectX ® 8.1 programmable pixel and vertex shaders in hardware

EDIT: Damn you Mnjul :P

If I was you, Id get a nvidia 6xxx card atleast.

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O.P. RE: Video card reccomendation
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It says something more like 8.1 :p
meh, whatever
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By the way, it's still a deal if you trade a 512MB DDR2 module for it.
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If I was you, Id get a nvidia 6xxx card atleast.
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RE: Video card reccomendation
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If I was you, Id get a nvidia 6xxx card atleast.
True, but that can be thrice as much as what a 512MB DDR2 module costs :-/
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