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9700pro beats 9600XT easily, glad I bought one a year ago :)

 
 
rms
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      16th Oct 2003
"We continue to see that the Radeon 9700 Pro is performing quite well and
unfortunately ATI's assertions that the 9600 XT would perform similarly to
the 9700 Pro are simply untrue. Given the very low price of the Radeon 9700
Pro we'd strongly suggest buying a 9700 Pro over a Radeon 9600 XT"

Thus says Anand. Has anyone tried overclocking the 9600XT yet? Anand
didn't even mention the dynamic overclocking feature or make any attemp to
overclock the 9600XT.

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      16th Oct 2003
With the street price of the 9700 Pro hovering around $275, and the
projected street price of the 9600XT at about $170 (bundled with HL-2 which
is a $40 value), it's not an apples to apples comparison. The 9700 Pro
costs about twice as much no matter how you slice it, and even in
Anandtech's review, it averaged only about 25% better (sometimes even less)
performance in the tests. And, as you point out, the 9600XT was not tested
with adaptive overclocking, which, according to ATI's propaganda, should
bring the 9600XT very close to 9700 Pro performance.

The dynamic overclocking feature was not tested because the Cat 3.9 drivers
that make it work have yet to be released. Finally, don't forget the heat
thing. If the 9600XT is a cooler running card, that, in itself, makes it
attractive for many applications such as SFF.

Glad you like your 9700 Pro.


"rms" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "We continue to see that the Radeon 9700 Pro is performing quite well and
> unfortunately ATI's assertions that the 9600 XT would perform similarly to
> the 9700 Pro are simply untrue. Given the very low price of the Radeon

9700
> Pro we'd strongly suggest buying a 9700 Pro over a Radeon 9600 XT"
>
> Thus says Anand. Has anyone tried overclocking the 9600XT yet? Anand
> didn't even mention the dynamic overclocking feature or make any attemp to
> overclock the 9600XT.
>
> rms
>
>



 
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rms
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      16th Oct 2003
> With the street price of the 9700 Pro hovering around $275,

More like $250, the 9700proAIW is only $263, and can be oc'd to stock
9800pro levels. Also a powercolor 9800SE is $260, and these can be modded
to 9800pros.

All in all I'm a little leery now of the 9600XT, tho of course if you can't
justify the extra $100, or are thinking of buying now and then buying again
when the R420 appears, it might be a good option.

rms


 
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      16th Oct 2003


rms wrote:
>> With the street price of the 9700 Pro hovering around $275,

>
> More like $250, the 9700proAIW is only $263, and can be oc'd to
> stock 9800pro levels. Also a powercolor 9800SE is $260, and these
> can be modded to 9800pros.
>
> All in all I'm a little leery now of the 9600XT, tho of course if you
> can't justify the extra $100, or are thinking of buying now and then
> buying again when the R420 appears, it might be a good option.
>
> rms


Consider the source but,......http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12161


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