9600 XT or 9800 Pro

[r1zeek]

Hi
I'm still looking for my new G/c (I know you get this all the time, sorry guys)
And i've narrowed my search down to 1 of 2 cards. I did have my eye on the Power Colour Rad 9800 Pro at Komplett.co.uk but then I read a review for a 9600 XT. The XT is about £50 cheaper and I was wondering if that was preferable of a 9800 Pro. The XT's clock speeds are higher than the 9800 Pro, does that make any difference. Also, do you think the Power Colour 9800 Pro is an alright deal, I mean will it be able to hack HL2, Doom 3, Battlefield: Vietnam, I know it won't be on maxed out setting but it should be able to keep a decent frame rate shouldn't it?
Cheers

[floppybootstomp]

9600XT (128Mb Version):

Core 500
Memory: 300
Pipes: 4

9800Pro:

Core: 380
Memory: 340
Pipes: 8

I've no personal experience, but I'd wager the 9800 Pro would easily outperform the 9600XT.

[CrapshoT]

get a 9800 pro it will outperform the 9600xt tho core speed is important faster memory and the extra pipelines etc will push the 9800 pro well ahead

[Swafe]

9800pro - if you can get one like the deal last week for 135, wont be much more

more performance, and probably more resale value

[r1zeek]

Thats sorted then, 9800 pro
The Power Colour seems alright to you guys then?
Power Colour 9800 Pro 128Mb
Cheers

[Kezzer]

9800 Pro is blatantly better

I wouldn't go for the power colour personally, i would prefer a decent brand who i can trust such as asus, connect3d or hercules but that's my opinion

[Spud1]

yup my words are the same as kezzers, get a herc one =) they work great and look good to boot

[blockers]

There seem to have been a few bad things said about Powercolour, that they use bad RAM etc.....
but if you dont overclock, itll still do every game for a while yet.

Good choice, r9800 pro, much better than r9600 xt

[Bindibadgi]

Ya 9800pro is superior. 8 pipes over 4 anyday, and its got a 256bit ram over the 96's 128bit iirc

[r1zeek]

Cheers guys, What do you think about the Connect 3D 9800 Pro?

[steve threlfall]

Awesome card- connect 3d are excellent

[CrapshoT]

Cheers guys, What do you think about the Connect 3D 9800 Pro?

thats my pro lol i have a Connect3D 9800 pro and its brill
id recomend one to you m8 top card plays everything full on
easily o/cs from 378/338 to 431/370 and ive just ordered a arctic cooler
heatsink to go on it to see what it can push to
i paid £200 for mine in november decent price for that one as well

[kingabs]

saphire r better

[Dataisgod]

i have a powercolour and it overclocks fine, i got it when the powercolour was about £70 cheaper then any other 9800pro so it was definetly the way forward.

it does 452/395 with the stock cooling

giving me this

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=2078280

and it has samsung ram (not sure if everyone is so lucky here though)

[blockers]

I think that is the problem people have been having with powercolours, the RAM has been letting them down....

Nice overclock good to see you got good RAM

Will

[CrapshoT]

saphire r better

not at the minute they arent as alot of them are being rma'd cos
of dodgy memory