ATI 9800 Pro vs Geforce 4 4400

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ATI 9800 Pro vs Geforce 4 4400

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Well, Best buy had the ATI on sale for 299$ CDN so i picked one up tonight. Gonna redo XP tonight and will run some tests maybe sunday as I'm busy tomorrow.

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I predict the 9800 pro will beat the tar off the 4400
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I won't argue that.
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Post by CDN_Merlin »

Winner is?


My old Voodoo 3. :P
No no, kidding aside, this 9800 just ROCKS my house. Everything is just so much more crisper and fast.
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Post by Jeff250 »

Everything is just so much more crisper and fast.
Enabling some good 8x FSAA should take care of both of those issues!
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my boss just built a computer with a P4 3.2, 1Gb ram, and a 9800XT. Got 444 fps in D3 with default everything. I was actually expecting faster than that, but it's a great card. Bitchin' fast, even :)
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Post by CDN_Merlin »

For one thing, I can use a higher res and get the same FPS in the games. And everything is sharper even using only 4x AA and 2X AF
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Post by Teddy »

you mean you can use high resolution and 2xaf.... AA hasnt worked in d3 for any of the driver sets put out by ati... it is a known problem, ati doesnt seem to care to fix it.
Not to mention that with the 4.2 drivers, opengl "skipps" now.... there is a very distinctive pause every few seconds while moving around. this is the reason i had to sell off my old 7200 aiw a few years back. these poor cards started out bad and only got worse, the skipping in d3 never got fixed.

I sure hope this driver set happened to be a fluke and not a trend as it was with my old card. Other wise you can expect your 9800 to only play d3 good for another year before the drivers get poor support
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I also went from a 4400 to a 9800 Pro. Nice jump, especially in BF1942.
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hell yeah
battlfield rocks with a 9800
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Post by Aggressor Prime »

Thats like saying, yeah the Pentium 4 3.4GHz EE beat the Athlon XP 2500.

Of course the performance rocks.

Radeons are good, but a little too expensive for their performance.

That's why I stick with nVidia.

But, the Radeon 9800 is a major improvement over the GeForce 4 Ti 4400. :P
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Post by CDN_Merlin »

Considering I paid 300$ for my 4400 2 yrs ago and I paid 300$ for the 9800, I'm more happy with the 9800 but thats a given since it's newer.
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Post by Pentium 3 »

I just upgraded from a ti4400 to a 9800 pro as well, huge difference :)
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Post by CDN_Merlin »

I'm loving this card. Now, only to convince my wife to buy me an Audigy 2 :D
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who let zaphod back in?
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