Upgrading To Sapphire Atlantis 9100 ??

[Grechie]

Hey everyone, after upgrading from a mx 440 to a fx5200, i was still dissapointed, wat i want to know is, is a ati 9100 any good? will it make my games more smoother ? is it better then the fx 5200 ? my firend had a 9100 and he said it was crap because games sometimes wouldnt work and his computer rebooted with it

does anyone know how good it is and if it is worth uprading too, and will it work in a NVIDIA nforce2 seeing its ATI (maybe they elimated the competition)

any additional thoughts would be great

p.s i never have used a ATI card before :)


MiK

[Vengeance]

Originally posted by Grechie
Hey everyone, after upgrading from a mx 440 to a fx5200, i was still dissapointed, wat i want to know is, is a ati 9100 any good? will it make my games more smoother ? is it better then the fx 5200 ? my firend had a 9100 and he said it was crap because games sometimes wouldnt work and his computer rebooted with it

does anyone know how good it is and if it is worth uprading too, and will it work in a NVIDIA nforce2 seeing its ATI (maybe they elimated the competition)

any additional thoughts would be great

p.s i never have used a ATI card before :)


MiK

Well I am an ATI guy right now :p
But one thing I will tell you is the 9100 Pro is only a direct X8 card and the FX 5200 is a direct X9 card.
If I were you i'd try to go with either the FX5600 or 9600 Pro.
I dont know how much you have to spend but you can get a 9600 Pro off from ATI's website right now for $169.00.
And the FX 5600 will probly run you about the same price give or take. And either one of them will be a world of diffrence over the 5200/9100 line of cards.

Oh yeah and a ATI card will work in your nForce mobo ;)

[Grechie]

Originally posted by Doom_BHO
Well I am an ATI guy right now :p
But one thing I will tell you is the 9100 Pro is only a direct X8 card and the FX 5200 is a direct X9 card.
If I were you i'd try to go with either the FX5600 or 9600 Pro.
I dont know how much you have to spend but you can get a 9600 Pro off from ATI's website right now for $169.00.
And the FX 5600 will probly run you about the same price give or take. And either one of them will be a world of diffrence over the 5200/9100 line of cards.

Oh yeah and a ATI card will work in your nForce mobo ;)

hey thanx man for the info
im in australia, a 9500 pro or $454 i would like to of gotten that, but this is the deal, i bought a asus geforcefx5200 for 200, the 9100 is 250, the guy at the shop said if i bring the card back, and pay an extra $50 i could get the 9100, i only care for smooth gameplay really, i mean in metal gear 2 substance, on the tanker in the rain, it ran choppy till i got inside.....will the radeon fix this, btw it was on 640X480 and 1024X768, i dont really mind that its not a dx9 card seeing that a dx9 game is far from being made.....and 3d mark 2003 well i dont care it cant run all tests and or smoothly :)

will this be a good opportunity and a decent upgrade, i saw that the 9100 is up against the Ti4200 so that sounds good to me.....

any info ? thoughts ?

[Vengeance]

Hmm I really dont know enough about the 9100 Pro to tell you it's worth it!
The 5200/9100 are both lower end cards and I havent really read much on them.
I looked too, I cant even find any reveiws yet.
Sorry bud maybe some else here will have a better answer for you.

[Grechie]

Originally posted by Doom_BHO
Hmm I really dont know enough about the 9100 Pro to tell you it's worth it!
The 5200/9100 are both lower end cards and I havent really read much on them.
I looked too, I cant even find any reveiws yet.
Sorry bud maybe some else here will have a better answer for you.


well it biols down to this, i can either keep the fx5200 which is slow and chunky in games, and gets a top score of 4974 3d marks, apposed to 5994 with my mx 440 (?) or get a radeon 9100 which i was hoping would be better, i cant buy another card otherwise i would get a ti4200 coz of nvidias drivers.....so is it a good card? is it better then a ati 9000 ?

:)

[Spiritwalker]

Go to this page http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/radeon/giga-r9200.html#p6 and about half way down there are links to many charts comparing a wide range of cards in a multitude of apps.

[Dazz]

A Radeon 9100 is really a repackaged Radeon 8500LE

[omv]

What about going to a Ti4200? If you don't need DX9, and you can score one cheap...

[gordon151]

Originally posted by Grechie
well it biols down to this, i can either keep the fx5200 which is slow and chunky in games, and gets a top score of 4974 3d marks, apposed to 5994 with my mx 440 (?) or get a radeon 9100 which i was hoping would be better, i cant buy another card otherwise i would get a ti4200 coz of nvidias drivers.....so is it a good card? is it better then a ati 9000 ?

:)

Is the sky blue!? Of course the 4200 is much better than the 9100 and most definately the 5200. If you can pick up one of those cheap 64Mb 4200s for real cheap $90 USD (or about $140 AUS?) then run with it my friend. RUN WITH IT!!!!!!

[Grechie]

about the ti, its 350 australian :(

if i return this fx which is 200 bucks, (cant get a refund you see) and pay an extra 50 bucks, i can get this radeon, is it an smoother and or faster then this fx. this fx only gets close to 5000 marks in 3d mark 2001 SE 330 ?

thanx

[gordon151]

As long as you are getting a retail 9100 clocked at 250/250 and not one of those crappy 250/200(MEM) oem 9100s then it should be a much better buy than the 5200. You don't need us to tell you that though as I'm sure there are a lot of 5200 reviews that pit the card against other budget representatives such as the 9100. Here is a link to a review I remember reading the other day which had benchmarks of both cards http://www.hardware-mag.de/hardware.php?id=149&page=1. Since the card in the review is a Sapphire it is clocked at 250/200 I believe, but most other retail 9100s come clocked at 250/250.