C&C or new computer

[davidb]

If you really want the best graphics card pick up a Radeon 9700 Pro. Beats the G4 hands down in pretty much every category.

I say get the X-mag, especially if you're a gamer. Unless computer games are a bigger part of your life than paintball I guess... But hey, now's a good time to change that!

[digitard]

If you wanna spend 400 bucks on a video card get the 9700 ATI ... otherwise get the GF4 .. yes the ATI beats it, but nothing you'll notice visually right now since even the new UNREAL WARFARE engine gets over 60FPS with both cards, and you cant see over 60FPS with your eyes anyhow, anything over that is overkill.

Sincerely,
Dave K

[Berner9]

just like to say......

i just like to say that that is funny as h*ll FutureMagOwner.

p.s. do you have a mag yet?

[DiRTyBuNNy]

as far as not being able to see above 60fps..simply untrue..some military fighter pilots are able to distinguish differences in frames at up to 120fps, so it's not that you won't notice the difference..you just simply won't know enough to care...

and I get 170fps in Half Life with my 128MB Radeon 9000 so there...

[Mr. T!]

Dude, your getting a Dell. I hate dells, get the C&C

[digitard]

HalfLife is a 4yr old game engine, its out of date .. dont use that as a basepoint. Your comparing a game that was designed to run on a volvo to someone owning a ferrari ... its outdated.

The "untrained" eye see's 60fps naturally ... unless you do some SERIOUS work to teach your optical system to distinguish farther, and in some cases just the eye works different. But in 95% of human beings you wont see above the 60fps natually.

Both the Gf4 and the Radeon 9700 push amazing frame rates, and currently the GF4 is your best price/performance card ... but if you want simply the absolute best the 9700 is the way to go, although the new NVIDIA chipset coming out beats even that. So its a tug-o-war.

If you wanna get true benchmarking performance use a game engine such as the UNREAL WARFARE or the DOOM III alpha to do it .... those are the types of games that are coming out, those engines are what will be adapted and used for the new generation of games .... Halflife/Q3/etc based engine games might still be fun, but the game engine is out of date .....

Sincerely,
Dave K