just curious if im the only one using a Radeon 9000 pro. Wondering how it runs for other people.,
your impressions.

btw 800th.,  

I have an ATI 9000 in my Alienware area 51 laptop. It kicks ass. I run a 9700 in my gaming machine and I like playing on the laptop just as much. Despite the fact that I know the 9700 is faster by the bench marks, the 9000 in the laptop runs great and some days I perfer it. Even in an rmg map. I used to use a 4600 in my gaming machine, the laptop with the 9000 gets a better 3d mark. Neither come close to the 9700 though.

Only problem with 9700 so far was a strange heat problem. It would lock up after playing for an hour or more. I fixxed the problem by removing the heatsync and cleaning the grease off and sanding the top of the gpu and sync, than reapplying silver paste and reattaching sync. I also attached syncs to memory. Heat problems went bye bye and no more locks.

WiT

I know it's off topic but........i use a GeForce 3.

I used to get 50-60 FPS in 640x480 with all settings set to low.  I then bought one of Gigabyte's new KT400 chipset motherboards (GA-7VAXP is the model number) Inserted two sticks of 256mb pc2700 DDR RAM and an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor.

I now get 125 FPS almost constantly with 1024x768 all settings high.  Sometimes it will dip to 80 FPS if alot of nade spamming is going on but overall i am very happy now.

Sometimes it's not the vid card thats the performance problem.

well right now im running..,

ASUS K7V Athlon 1 ghz
windows 2000
640 MB ram pc100
Radeon 9000 pro - overclocked to 301, core and memory

im not sure why im having problems i might just have to take it back. hmm., have to play with it alittle tonight.

I'm also looking for a new video card, I have Gf4 MX440 64mb. One of my friends just got a new comp with a MSI GF4 Ti4200 128mb, well after seeing Unreal 2 staggering like a b!tch on my computer with all settings on low, and seeing it on his computer with all settings at max I saw the real difference in quality of graphics.

I'm not going to pay like 400 bucks for some radeon 9700 or Gf4 4600 but I do want something that's a lot better. I also saw an ASUS Gf4 Ti4200, I think that's one I might get... but I also think about waiting a couple of months til the 9700 is cheaper.


btw what the #### is this: Asus V9480/TVD TI4800SE 128MB 234,00 card??? I never even heard of it.

Thnx for the replies, I think I'll wait for the next release/price drop because I'm not someone who really wants to have the best top notch gadgets. I'm just looking for a card which really improves the graphics when compared to what I have now... but not for ridiculous prices. (I saw Gf4 Ti4600's for 480 euros, that's just crazy)

Well hopefully all being well, I might be able to get my hands on the soon to be released Nivda card for a cheap as chips price.

Having to turn the graphics down to improve game play is reet anonying.

H'mm was my post necessary...no..probably not.