Is this video card any good?

Technology and Gaming
#81

hmmmmmmm

75$ for a 9500GT … yay or nay?
EVGA GeForce 9500 GT Video Card - 1GB DDR2, PCI Express 2.0, SLI Support, (Dual Link) Dual DVI, HDTV, VGA Support

The 9800 is at like 115… Is there a big performance difference between the two?

Or this… 9500GT @ 512MB for 60$
PNY GeForce 9500 GT Video Card - 512MB DDR2, PCI Express 2.0, (Dual Link) DVI, HDTV, VGA

Also, how can I know if my Mobo has PCIe 2.0 slots, and not just PCIe (If there’s any difference) ?

Also, does SLI only work between 2 identical cards? SLI’ing one of these with my 7300GT wouldn’t work, would it? :S

#82

I say NAY. The 9500GT is a far poorer performer than the 4670, and they are the same price. There is a significant difference between the 9500GT and the 9800…I’m assuming at that price it’s 9800GT.

When you are looking at cards in this range, it won’t matter, so long as the PCI express port is x16. You are nowhere near the limitation with these cards. Even a single 9800GTX+ doesn’t max the bandwidth of PCIexpress 1.0

You would need two of the same card for SLi. I do not recommend it though. With some cards ( Not the 7300GT though ) you can easily enough turn a second card into a PhysX card though, even if it doesn’t match.

In this range though you’ll probably find better deals with team red.

#83

Hmm, the 4670 I found was 95$ :frowning:
I only checked TigerDirect.ca, though.

I’m speaking in canadian $

#84

Firstly, stop using tigerdirect.ca
Always use either newegg.ca, or NCIX.

Here are two I found:

NCIX $70 (NCIX doesn’t charge the 13% tax like in Ontario though, so you won’t pay the tax like tigerdirect, or newegg.)

Newegg $70. You don’t have a MIR on this one, which is good, but newegg charges more taxes, and more shipping cost.

#85

Cool thanks…

120$ I get a new video card and 2GB of RAM, taxes and shipping included. Interesting…

#86

Does this website look reliable?

https://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=431&card2=579

It says 32GB/s bandwidth for the Radeon, but that’s the PCIe 2.0 port limit… I’m guessing lot of these numbers are purely theoretic.
And by the way, my system apparently has a PCIe 1.0 16x port… hope this doesn’t matter much :frowning:

Also, I’m running XP pro, and from what I can read, DirectX 10 isn’t supposed to run on it (though there seem to be people hacking it up to do so), and since the card supports DirectX 10.1 … Will I have less functionnality than I could? Should I install DX10 anyway?

BTW, sorry for hijacking this thread a couple of times, but I guess it’s better than to have 10 topics about GPU’s. And thanks for the help and recommendations so far :slight_smile:

#87

That website is strictly numbers. Unfortunately sometimes Gflops, and transistor counts don’t amount to better in game performance. Just ask the unfortunate souls who bought 2900xt cards a while back.

I like to use tech reports gpu reviews as a comparison site. They have a sub 100 video card comparison if you are interested. DX10 will not work in XP. However some features that are supposed to only be open to Vista/DX10, can be hacked to work in XP.

The visual benefit of DX10 in most instances is pretty minimal. Though when windows 7 comes out gaming in there is pretty good.

You will see zero difference with that card in a PCIexpress 1.0 slot if it’s x16.

#88

I do think my 3DMark score beats yours.

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#89

You could beat my score pretty much without a GPU.

#90

What does that say?

That English doesn’t sound right.

#91

I think it means that his PC has the slowest score ever to be reported to the site, it’s off the scale :fffuuu:

#92

I know this may sound stupid, but how does one go about getting their 3DMark score card like the ones above? I did google it and went to the 3dmark website but the installer for directx 9 is like 500+ mb so i’m wonderin…

#93

Exactly :expressionless:

This is 3Dmark06? I dunno what the standard one is people use now, it’s so big because It has lots of 3D tests. Testing your PC’s performance properly isn’t really possible with a tiny application.
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#94

https://service.futuremark.com/virtualmark/start.action

They do it like that.

#95

ooh :retard:
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#96

^Ditto. :retard:

Thanks for the info though, Daedalus.

#97

Hmm. At least I don’t have the crappest craptop.

Yay :expressionless:
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#98

Hahhahaa

Pro user: NO

Newb!
Wth is that anyway?

#99

Craptop=laptop. Duh.

It’s my all purpose PC while at uni. And no, I didn’t have the choice of getting a desktop, despite trying desperately to persuade my parents.
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#100

… what?

I knew what you meant by craptop.
I was referring to the ‘Pro user’ YES/NO thing… In the results. I’d think it’s just the benchmark software version; but the fact that the two reference results have ‘NO’ and ‘YES’ is kinda weird. Like if having the pro version of their thing makes your computer better.

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