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That's one place where ATI users have had an advantage over Nvidia. The 9500/Pro and the 9600/Pro are both faster than the DX8.1 parts they replaced, so for a DX8.1 user staying with ATI the new...

All Radeons from the 9500 and up are fully DX9 compatible. My 9500 Pro differs from the 9700 Non-Pro only in the width of the memory bus, it has the same VPU running at the same clock. The 9500...

I have a Radeon 9500 Pro, which generally gets me a hair over 10K 3Dmarks in 2K1SE. That may not be a huge score but with a Pally 1800+ and only 256MB of RAM I'm pretty satisfied.

What I like...

Glad it does:

From everything I've seen the second generation FX cards (5700 and 5900) are pretty decent pieces of hardware. They may not be as good at DX9 as ATI but they have other strengths.
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I tried to stay out of this bit, but Benknobi is right.

The high end GfFX cards can operate as either a 8x0 or 4x2 card. Unfortunately, the so-called "8-pipe" configuration only works when the...

No the FX5200 doesn't keep pace with the Ti4200. Depending on which model you have you could have difficulty keeping up with the MX440.

That's what's going to be holding you back the most.

Wednesday, Oct 8th.

Here's my latest score 10389 3DMarks on aggressive settings.

Not bad for a Radeon 9500 Pro on an 1800+ on 256MB and an old AMD761 motherboard.

Got to the D3D control panel in your catalysts and set AA and AF to application preference. That will disable them unless specifically enabled in the app. In this case 3DMark.

Vsync has its own...

Sees mobo57's problems with the FX5600.

Smiles and pats his Radeon 9500 Pro.

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Athlon XP 1800+
256MB PC2100 DDR
Gigabyte GA-7DX (AMD761 chipset)