Which card would you use?
I have a FireGL X1 and I also have a Radeon 9600XT. Which one would you guys prefer? I did softmod the firegl so my system thinks it's a 9700pro. .
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I'm running Cat 3.8 for the 9700 pro (Fire GL soft mod)
and I'll download 4.4 for the XT....
Why aren't you running modified 4.4 Catalysts on the FireGL? Just like all earlier revisions, the FireGL mod still works.
It's nice to have the game bug updates that the Catalyst drivers provide, but the native FireGL drivers are faster. There really isn't any need to use a set of modified Catalysts in all honesty, the 7.96.21 FireGL drivers are rock solid and perform extremely well. The only drawback of the FireGL drivers to me is the lacklustre control panel compared to the option-fest of the Catalyst control panel.
If that's still not good enough, give the FireGL 7.98.5 beta drivers a whirl as well. Grab here.
The fire gl x1 128 does have 8 pixelpipelines. So should my scores be higher?
Here's my specs:
Athlon XP 2400+ (2.0Ghz) 266 FSB
Volcano 9 HS/Fan w/adjustible speed
Asus A7V8X-X Ver. 1009
1 GB Kingston pc2700
120GB WD 8MB cache
Fire GL X1 128 (softmodded to 9700 PRO CAT 4.4)
4x +/- DVD-RW
500 Watt PS
Here's my specs:
Athlon XP 2400+ (2.0Ghz) 266 FSB
Volcano 9 HS/Fan w/adjustible speed
Asus A7V8X-X Ver. 1009
1 GB Kingston pc2700
120GB WD 8MB cache
Fire GL X1 128 (softmodded to 9700 PRO CAT 4.4)
4x +/- DVD-RW
500 Watt PS
Quite correct rayminrow, the X1-128 does of course have an 8-pixel pipeline architecture.
FireGL's are the product pinnacles for their GPU class at time of release.
Be it a FireGL T2-128, a FireGL Z1-128, a FireGL X1-128/FireGL X1-256p or the newest baby, the FireGL X2-256t.
If you really feel you need more 0omph in games, then either upgrade your CPU which in turn will up your fsb to 333 as the 2400+ is the last of the 266 fsb CPU's, or go and buy a newer Graphics card.
But I can tell you that every single game plays fine with my X1-128. I also expect Doom III and Half Life 2 to perfrom well too.
Contrary to popular belief, there's still a lot of life left in 9700 based cards :)
FireGL's are the product pinnacles for their GPU class at time of release.
Be it a FireGL T2-128, a FireGL Z1-128, a FireGL X1-128/FireGL X1-256p or the newest baby, the FireGL X2-256t.
If you really feel you need more 0omph in games, then either upgrade your CPU which in turn will up your fsb to 333 as the 2400+ is the last of the 266 fsb CPU's, or go and buy a newer Graphics card.
But I can tell you that every single game plays fine with my X1-128. I also expect Doom III and Half Life 2 to perfrom well too.
Contrary to popular belief, there's still a lot of life left in 9700 based cards :)
You know JJ, do agree with you on that. 9700 GPU are extremely underrated. Even after my benchmarks, I played Halo at highest settings and the 9600XT lagged as where the 9700 doesn't.
Wasn't Doom3 using the 9700pros to demo at E3?
I plan on upgrading my cpu to the Athlon 64, so we'll see how that goes.
I did get a free HL2 :roll:
Wasn't Doom3 using the 9700pros to demo at E3?
I plan on upgrading my cpu to the Athlon 64, so we'll see how that goes.
I did get a free HL2 :roll:
The 9700 Pro's are amazing, I wonder if I can keep it 2 years running. One left to go :P
