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Recently I decided to upgrade my video card, as the first step in an
eventual systematic upgrade of my whole system. It's based on a PIII
at 600 MHz, and will go to P4 at 3+ GHz when finished. However the
existing GeForce 4 Ti4200 video card is steadily failing, so needed
to tackle that first.
With the new top end ATI and nVidia cards coming out, and the prices
of the former topend ones dropping I decided to spring for an ATI
Radeon 9800 Pro, at the current ~$240. That is, until I discovered
that it won't work with Windows 98SE, which I use along with Windows
2000 in a dual boot setup. Since I do not plan to give up on W98, nor
do I plan to go with Win XP Pro (which I have and don't like), I
looked around for an alternate video card for the short term.
I ordered what I thought was a genuine ATI Radeon 9200 card for this
interim period. When it arrived, I discovered it was not made by ATI,
but rather had a Sapphire name on it, but with ATI chipset and
software. More to the point, it says it's a Radeon 9800 SE, which I
later figured out means Secondary. So, just what do I have? It has
no specs saying what core or clock speed it uses, and I don't know how
to measure it. From using this for several hours, it seems to be
perfectly satisfactory for routine work. But how well will it perform
with my current flight sims, for example. I know my PIII limits
here, but after upgrading that, will this card manage to keep up to
the demand?
In short - where does this Sapphire Radeon 9200 SE card fall in the
rankings?
Thanks,
Olin McDaniel
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"Ignorance is treatable, Stupidity is incurable. Sometimes
the difference is hardly distinguishable, however."
Recently I decided to upgrade my video card, as the first step in an
eventual systematic upgrade of my whole system. It's based on a PIII
at 600 MHz, and will go to P4 at 3+ GHz when finished. However the
existing GeForce 4 Ti4200 video card is steadily failing, so needed
to tackle that first.
With the new top end ATI and nVidia cards coming out, and the prices
of the former topend ones dropping I decided to spring for an ATI
Radeon 9800 Pro, at the current ~$240. That is, until I discovered
that it won't work with Windows 98SE, which I use along with Windows
2000 in a dual boot setup. Since I do not plan to give up on W98, nor
do I plan to go with Win XP Pro (which I have and don't like), I
looked around for an alternate video card for the short term.
I ordered what I thought was a genuine ATI Radeon 9200 card for this
interim period. When it arrived, I discovered it was not made by ATI,
but rather had a Sapphire name on it, but with ATI chipset and
software. More to the point, it says it's a Radeon 9800 SE, which I
later figured out means Secondary. So, just what do I have? It has
no specs saying what core or clock speed it uses, and I don't know how
to measure it. From using this for several hours, it seems to be
perfectly satisfactory for routine work. But how well will it perform
with my current flight sims, for example. I know my PIII limits
here, but after upgrading that, will this card manage to keep up to
the demand?
In short - where does this Sapphire Radeon 9200 SE card fall in the
rankings?
Thanks,
Olin McDaniel
To reply by email, please remove "abcd" from Return address
-----------------------------------------------------
"Ignorance is treatable, Stupidity is incurable. Sometimes
the difference is hardly distinguishable, however."
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