Basic System Buyer's Guide

jmke · 17th February 2005, 13:17

Today we post our recommendations for this month’s sub-$400 budget machine (all-around, gaming included). Here's a quote:

This month we decided to cough up another $10 and upgrade to a Radeon 9600 PRO (from a vanilla Radeon 9600 last month). The onboard memory is reduced to 128MB (from 256MB), but that shouldn't make any difference given the inherent performance boost. Having full DX9 and OpenGL 1.5 support as well as 400MHz core and 446MHz memory clocks allows this card to play all the latest titles, even if it does so at the lower settings. Unlike last month's pick this one is also actively cooled.

And here's the link: http://www.mikhailtech.com/modules.p...content&id=136

17th February 2005, 13:17	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,019	Basic System Buyer's Guide Today we post our recommendations for this month’s sub-$400 budget machine (all-around, gaming included). Here's a quote: This month we decided to cough up another $10 and upgrade to a Radeon 9600 PRO (from a vanilla Radeon 9600 last month). The onboard memory is reduced to 128MB (from 256MB), but that shouldn't make any difference given the inherent performance boost. Having full DX9 and OpenGL 1.5 support as well as 400MHz core and 446MHz memory clocks allows this card to play all the latest titles, even if it does so at the lower settings. Unlike last month's pick this one is also actively cooled. And here's the link: http://www.mikhailtech.com/modules.p...content&id=136 __________________

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