woah... graphich card help

ok how come on www.newegg.com the FX 5600 has both 128 mb and 256 mb , but the 5800 doesnt... whats goign on? and they already made a 256 mb graphich card? thats hardcore...

P.S. whats a good graphich card around the 100-150 range?[/i]

I wonder what you call good? The Radeon 9500 Pro and the 9600 Pro is the best for the $$ at present. You will have to add about $50-$60 more to get one. I am not aware of any good (IMO) graphics cards in the price range you are asking about. My defination of good graphics card is evently different than yours. I suppose you need to be more specific.

yeah i got my 9500 pro for $200, and it is much better than my old 32 mb ati.....its kind of like going from 56k to dsl, and from dsl to 1megabit dsl

[StinkyMojo]

That'll be the day for me- going from 56k to DSL.

yeah but id recomend cable over dsl, that is if its good where you can get it.

Ok- and that 'going from 56k->DSL->1Mbps DSL'..... right. I have a 32MB DDR ATi card (Original ATi Radeon 32MB DDR Mac Edition PCI 166/166) and it's good for me Oh, and btw, 1Mbps is 19.21x faster than 56k's theoretical potential (53.3kbps, due to it being neccessary to run at a low-enough frequency so as not to interrupt phone lines)- and a 9500 Pro is not 19.2x faster- not even 10x faster. Maybe 3x faster?? (O.K., I'm just jealous because the GPU on ur video card is clocked higher than my computer's CPU) :P And internet connections<1Mbps are slow. I have 3Mbps cable

And what's this about "that's hardcore?" Let me tell you something: No, it isn't. 256MB DDR on a GF FX 5600 is worthless- just marketing by nVidia. Why? A 256MB frame buffer not only is unnecessary in todays games (yes, even Doom III at 1600x1200), and even if it were helpful, a GeForce FX 5600 does not have the neccessary horsepower to have it help any. Hardcore is more . . . you know, a VooDoo5 6000 rev. 3700A with mounted heatsinks and small taped vials of liquid nitrogen, lowering the quad VSA-100's ambient temp far below it's otherwise-160ºF state, and using this cooling to OC it to 210/210MHz- the 5.5ns SDRAM prevents furthur memory overclocking, and the card is already bandwidth starved [only 2.7GBps per chip@166MHz)- giving it a theoretical 1.68GigaPixel/s fillrate, effective 13.44GBps bandwidth, and ability to use 8x FSAA more playably. THAT'S hardcore. (Well actually it'd be even more HC if u soldered some 4.5ns 230MHz DDR-RAM (running ofcourse as SDRAM on a 3dfx card) allowing you to raise the core clock of the VSA-100's to 230MHz (any higher probably wouldn't be possible due to the 0.25µ manufacturing process, and the imperfections inheritant of all CPU/GPU/RAM transistors).

I may get C's an' D's in school but i know that much....... sorta. :/

do you come to school in the small bus?

and to answer the on-topic question: newegg might not have it in stock yet.