Re: Which Video Card is better?

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From: Will Sutton (sutton_at_swiftdsl.com.au)
Date: 04/05/04 

Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 17:27:44 +1000

"-----Fred-----" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1394f01c41ab4$e4d00510$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello, I need to upgrade the video card on my computer.
> However, since I am a student I don't have a whole lot of
> cash. So, I researched some "budget" cards and came up
> with the following:
>
> 1) ATI Radeon 9200
> 2) nVidia GeForce FX5200 (From MSI Corp.)
>
> The above two cards are affordable for me, but I just can
> not decide which is better. I have Windows XP
> Professional, SP1, and DirectX 9.0. The card will be
> used for maily games and a 3D modeling application.
>
> Any Thoughts?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Fred

Wait, wait and wait and you will find that cards like the Radeon 9600xt
will be affordable. Basically the others are junk

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