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Old 09-30-2003, 02:54 PM
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You can also pick up for about $20 cheaper a Powercolor Radeon 9600 (128MB) Pro

http://www.futurepowerpc.com/scripts...8TD&REFID= PW

From some benchmarks it should also outperform the FX5600 (CodeCreatures, UT2K3, RTCW), and REALLY beat it out when you turn on eye-candy (Antialiasing and Anistropic Filtering). The results I'm looking at are here:
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/....html?13880#p3

And just a note, to the extent of my knowledge theres not much of a point in buying 256MB video cards at this time, especially not the mid-range ones like the 5600 and 9600 since the GPUs aren't really going to make full use of all that memory.
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