Hi all!
I'm thinking about buying a new graphics card (my Riva TNT is getting too old). I want to buy one that is quite good, but not very expensive. After a lot of research, I narrowed my choices to the Creative Geforce3 Titanium 200-64M, the Asus GeForce3 64Mb V8200T2 Deluxe and the ATI Radeon 8500 64DDR.
Now, I'm in quite a difficult situation, as I don't know which one to choose. I know that the Geforce 3 Ti 200 chip is reliable, being from nVidia, and I was thinking of buying it. But then I saw benchmarks from different sites that describe an excellent performance from the ATI Radeon 8500, showing that it is superior to the Geforce 3 Ti 200, the Geforce 3 Ti 500 and even the Geforce 3. But then again, I'm aware that the Radeon has driver compatibility issues. And besides, if I were to buy the Radeon 8500, I would buy it OEM, and then how would I know if it was a "powered by" or a "built by ATI" card (given that there are core speed differences)?
Please heeeeelp me!
I'm thinking about buying a new graphics card (my Riva TNT is getting too old). I want to buy one that is quite good, but not very expensive. After a lot of research, I narrowed my choices to the Creative Geforce3 Titanium 200-64M, the Asus GeForce3 64Mb V8200T2 Deluxe and the ATI Radeon 8500 64DDR.
Now, I'm in quite a difficult situation, as I don't know which one to choose. I know that the Geforce 3 Ti 200 chip is reliable, being from nVidia, and I was thinking of buying it. But then I saw benchmarks from different sites that describe an excellent performance from the ATI Radeon 8500, showing that it is superior to the Geforce 3 Ti 200, the Geforce 3 Ti 500 and even the Geforce 3. But then again, I'm aware that the Radeon has driver compatibility issues. And besides, if I were to buy the Radeon 8500, I would buy it OEM, and then how would I know if it was a "powered by" or a "built by ATI" card (given that there are core speed differences)?
Please heeeeelp me!