Simviation Forum - new graphics card

May 6^th, 2005 at 4:03pm

wealthysoup Offline
Colonel
Newtownards, Northern Ireland

Gender:
Posts: 825

I am thinking of buying a ATI Radeon 9550 from http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=174195 ;
Does anyone know if it is worth the money and how well it works on fs9?

My PC specs:&&AMD Athlon 64 3200 (@ 2.2ghz)&&Asus K8v se deluxe motherboard&&1.5gb pc3200 RAM&&128mb palit geforce 6600gt&&200gb+80gb hard drives&&21 inch CRT&&5.1 creative surround sound speakers

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #1 - May 6^th, 2005 at 4:18pm

_526th_Fireman Offline
Colonel
S~ to all fair and honorable
pilots. S~!!
Joshua Texas

Gender:
Posts: 1148

That is a lower end card nowadays. I see it is DX9.0 compliant so it will work.

I think if you did some shopping around you could probably find a bit more card for the same or a tad more money.

Take a look at graph and decide:

Systemax Sabre Ultimate gaming rig.&&&&I got all the goodies and all the power I need to run anything thrown at me for the next two months!

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #2 - May 6^th, 2005 at 4:31pm

wealthysoup Offline
Colonel
Newtownards, Northern Ireland

Gender:
Posts: 825

What graph?

My PC specs:&&AMD Athlon 64 3200 (@ 2.2ghz)&&Asus K8v se deluxe motherboard&&1.5gb pc3200 RAM&&128mb palit geforce 6600gt&&200gb+80gb hard drives&&21 inch CRT&&5.1 creative surround sound speakers

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #3 - May 6^th, 2005 at 5:26pm

NWISimmer Ex Member

What are you upgrading from?
I have Ati Radeon 9550 card, it's ok for fresh FS9, however i've added loads of traffic, and with settings at max it's a bit of a let down to be honest.
Save up for a month or two and buy a 9800pro or XT or equivalent, i'm doing the same.
Avoid any graphics card with the suffix SE.
Rob.

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #4 - May 6^th, 2005 at 5:50pm

the_autopilot Offline
Colonel

Gender:
Posts: 1359

Quote:

What are you upgrading from?
I have Ati Radeon 9550 card, it's ok for fresh FS9, however i've added loads of traffic, and with settings at max it's a bit of a let down to be honest.
Save up for a month or two and buy a 9800pro or XT or equivalent, i'm doing the same.
Avoid any graphics card with the suffix SE.
Rob.

Don't bother with the 9800's.

Buy the 6600 gt. It can beat any 9800 hands down for the same price (or even less if you find a good deal) in almost any benchmark including fs2004.

Link to sig:&&Click here&&(Cannot post signature here due to current forum restrications on linked images).

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #5 - May 6^th, 2005 at 5:59pm

_526th_Fireman Offline
Colonel
S~ to all fair and honorable
pilots. S~!!
Joshua Texas

Gender:
Posts: 1148

LMAO!!

Sorry wealthysoup. I am at work (Fire Dept.) and caught a run from when the initial post didn't show the image. Before I could come back and fix it, you looked!!!!

Timing is everything! Wink

Systemax Sabre Ultimate gaming rig.&&&&I got all the goodies and all the power I need to run anything thrown at me for the next two months!

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #6 - May 7^th, 2005 at 8:47am

wealthysoup Offline
Colonel
Newtownards, Northern Ireland

Gender:
Posts: 825

ive currently got a 128mb nvidia fx5200 graphics card

My PC specs:&&AMD Athlon 64 3200 (@ 2.2ghz)&&Asus K8v se deluxe motherboard&&1.5gb pc3200 RAM&&128mb palit geforce 6600gt&&200gb+80gb hard drives&&21 inch CRT&&5.1 creative surround sound speakers

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #7 - May 7^th, 2005 at 8:05pm

bob576 Offline
Colonel
RC Pilot

Posts: 64

if youve got the bucks...get a Radeon X850 XT PE...thats what i have and its has been tested to be just as good or slightly better than the nVidia SLI...this thing is sooo sweet

Let T=Takeoffs&&Let L=Landings&&If T-L>1 print

Back to top

IP Logged

Reply #8 - May 7^th, 2005 at 9:44pm

the_autopilot Offline
Colonel

Gender:
Posts: 1359

Quote:

if youve got the bucks...get a Radeon X850 XT PE...thats what i have and its has been tested to be just as good or slightly better than the nVidia SLI...this thing is sooo sweet

Umm...NO.

SLi performs much better because it uses two cards to render. Even the ati-biased HL2 runs better with SLI.

Only game is fs2004 where SLI can be beaten by a single ard solution and thats cause the fs2004 rendering engine sucks.

All things aside though, the x850 is an awesome card and I have it in all of computers except two of them.

Link to sig:&&Click here&&(Cannot post signature here due to current forum restrications on linked images).

Back to top

IP Logged

	Search the archive: