New ATI graphics cards

Hi,

I just wanted to buy a Dell Dimension 8300 with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro but when
I went to the Dell website today ... the 8300 was gone. Instead you now have
the Dimension 8400 which comes with a ATI Radeon X300 SE. I keep reading on
the internet what a great videocard this really is, but I have not seen
comparisons with the 9800 Pro!
Is there anyone who knows if this X300 can be trusted: I want to play HL2
when it finally comes. Apparently Dell is now also selling this card in
their XPS gaming machine, so I guess the performance cannot be that bad, can
it?

Any thoughts?

Regards,
Jay

The Radeon X series is the next generation of Radeon cards, so obviously
they are better than their 9 series equivalents. the Radeon X series
should support DX 10 aswell (I think)... however, X300 is one of the
lower end cards, and SE usually means "****e Edition" with ATI cards (So
in other words it's Pointless - you may aswell get a 9800 pro).. i'm not
sure how many flavours the Radeon X comes in, but ideally you want a
Radeon X800.

JayJay wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to buy a Dell Dimension 8300 with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro but when
> I went to the Dell website today ... the 8300 was gone. Instead you now have
> the Dimension 8400 which comes with a ATI Radeon X300 SE. I keep reading on
> the internet what a great videocard this really is, but I have not seen
> comparisons with the 9800 Pro!
> Is there anyone who knows if this X300 can be trusted: I want to play HL2
> when it finally comes. Apparently Dell is now also selling this card in
> their XPS gaming machine, so I guess the performance cannot be that bad, can
> it?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Jay
>
>

--
Ben Cottrell AKA Bench


"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as
kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills
and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson,
Nintendo, Inc, 1989

as Ben says - the SE versions have lower memory bandwidth like 64bit as
opposed to 128 or even 256
(in the case of the 9800pro). avoid like the plague.

"JayJay" <jayjayvda@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to buy a Dell Dimension 8300 with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro but
when
> I went to the Dell website today ... the 8300 was gone. Instead you now
have
> the Dimension 8400 which comes with a ATI Radeon X300 SE. I keep reading
on
> the internet what a great videocard this really is, but I have not seen
> comparisons with the 9800 Pro!
> Is there anyone who knows if this X300 can be trusted: I want to play HL2
> when it finally comes. Apparently Dell is now also selling this card in
> their XPS gaming machine, so I guess the performance cannot be that bad,
can
> it?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Jay
>
>

Thanks, appreciate it!

Jay

"Peter" <nospamwanted@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
news:i%cCc.519$5R3.5004315@news-text.cableinet.net...
> as Ben says - the SE versions have lower memory bandwidth like 64bit as
> opposed to 128 or even 256
> (in the case of the 9800pro). avoid like the plague.
>
> "JayJay" <jayjayvda@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:40d87b4c$0$28596$a0ced6e1@news.skynet.be...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just wanted to buy a Dell Dimension 8300 with ATI Radeon 9800 Pro but
> when
> > I went to the Dell website today ... the 8300 was gone. Instead you now
> have
> > the Dimension 8400 which comes with a ATI Radeon X300 SE. I keep reading
> on
> > the internet what a great videocard this really is, but I have not seen
> > comparisons with the 9800 Pro!
> > Is there anyone who knows if this X300 can be trusted: I want to play
HL2
> > when it finally comes. Apparently Dell is now also selling this card in
> > their XPS gaming machine, so I guess the performance cannot be that bad,
> can
> > it?
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jay
> >
> >
>
>