ATI Radeon 9700...your guy's input

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

When I said "your guy's" I meant all of you in general, lol, i know there are chicks out there using the forum.

ANYWAY. i've heard a lot of great things about this upcoming card and I just wanted to see what ya'll people thought about it.

For those who havent heard much, here's what i know:

- 2x the number Pixel pipes than any other card (8, instead of 4)
- The thoroughput of the pixel fill, antialiased fill, and texture is a great deal more than any otha card
- memory bit-width at 256
- i think full support for direct x8? or 9 was it?
- blah blah blah, i can go on and on...

[Bagel]

How much will it cost?

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

umm, i heard at $399. i got this price from gamespot.com (pc hardware)

there is also a very technical article about the ATI card at:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...,388854,00.asp


popcorn kicks ass...

[grantu2]

Yeah, 399 is said to be the price but I say more like in the 330 price range. Anyways I am for sure getting the card, It's going into the new putter i'm going to build, I just hope I can hold on to this cash I made during the summer and not buy that prs 1,200 dollar electric guitar I also want *must keep mind off guitar* . the 9700 card is supposed to work along side directx 9.1.

[Magus]

I am quite impressed with the card thus far with the exception of its 16-bit color problem in older games. The new GPU has got me in a trance (well, not quite and the basically upgraded vertex shaders and Smooth Vision tech will once again put ATI on top at least for a few months. I will definitely get the card and if the same thing happens that usually occurs with ATI's cards, we will see a massive price drop after its release or possibly before it. The 8500 and 9000 cards are around $100 so I can't see the 9700 staying above $250 for long, especially if they want to compete with the GF4Ti4600. Good luck ATI. This holiday season will be huge for the vid card market!

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

arr, i wish i had the money to get it... what really annoys me is that my dad paid +200 bucks for the all-in-wonder 7500, and now all the prices are dropping!!! lol, but thats how it is all the time...

[Magus]

I know what you mean. But, because that card is fairly new, you could sell it for a decent price and use that cash to pay for part of the 9700.

[Traitorious]

I got a comp with the 7000 card REALLY cheap.

I got a 1800xp speed 128ddr ram.
windows98se
DVD drive CR writer drive
floppy drive
90gig
Ethernet network card that supports 100mbps

it was all $700

but it was a tower only thing