ATI Radeon 9550 and BenQ FP202 20.1" widescreen

danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
edited December 2006 in Hardware
Can anyone tell me whether or not the ATI Radeon can support the BenQ's FP202W native resolution of 1680x1050? I can't find it anywhere on AMD's website at all, and I'm not sure how to interpret the information contained in the ATI's graphics information file (the *.inf).

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  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    it will support it...but dont plan on gaming with that card. the 9550 will display upto 2048x1536
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited December 2006
    I was only asking because I already have that card installed, and I do play games with the video card, so I know how slow it is (City Life, Sim City 4, ect). This is the card plan on buying when I build my new computer.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Why not a 7950? It's faster than the 7900, and only $20-50 more.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited December 2006
    Thrax wrote:
    Why not a 7950? It's faster than the 7900, and only $20-50 more.

    The XFX 7900GS is 600/1600MHz and I assume that the 7950 is faster only because it has 4 more pixel pipelines?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Yes, and that translates to a pretty impressive performance boost. :)

    If you can swing it, the X1950XTX from ATI is undoubtedly the fastest single-GPU card on the planet without considering the 8800 series; it's even faster than the 7950GX2 at lower resolutions in many games (1600x1200 or less).
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited December 2006
    Ok. then. How about this video card.

    And I originally started on the X1950XT, but decided that I didn't need the top of the line card.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    That card is <i>excellent</i>. Very fast at a great price!
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited December 2006
    The one I linked?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Yes.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited December 2006
    So, at 24 pixel pipelines and 570/1460MHz, it is still faster than 20 pixel pipelines and 600/1600MHz?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Yep.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited December 2006
    Is it significantly faster, or is it just slightly faster?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Just slightly. If you're into saving money, stick with the 7900GT or snag a 7900GTX if you can.. The 7900GTX is <i>much</i> faster than both.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited December 2006
    Thrax wrote:
    Just slightly. If you're into saving money, stick with the 7900GT or snag a 7900GTX if you can.. The 7900GTX is <i>much</i> faster than both.

    Let's see:
    7900GS, 21 on NewEgg, fastest one seen is the one I chose at 600/1600, 20 pp's

    7900GT, 9 on NewEgg, fastest in stock item seen is 500/1530 by MSI, fastest out of stock item is eVGA at 560/1500 (all 24 pp's)

    7950GT, 19 Items, fastest is an XFX fanless model at 610/1600, 24pp, at $300

    7900GTX, 1 on NewEgg, made by Asus at 650/1600 and 24 pixel pipelines, nice but too expensive at $470.

    Somehow, I think those new DX10 cards are overkill and unnecessary.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    Yes and no. The 8800GTS, at about $500, is as fast as two 7900GTX cards.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited December 2006
    I'll probably wait until they get under $250 and don't require as much power.

    And what is the difference between a pixel pipeline and a stream processor?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2006
    It's probably best to read the 8800 release-day reviews from [H]ard|OCP and Anandtech for that kind of info. I can probably articulate the basics, but they'd have the full skinny.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited December 2006
    Actually, according to eVGA, it seems they call them pixel pipelines, and it has 128 of them.
    http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=768-P2-N831-AR&family=23
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited December 2006
    Either way, here is the difference between the 7900GS and 7950GT

    7900GS
    Pixel Pipelines - 20
    Memory Bandwidth - 42.2 GB/sec
    Fill Rate - 9 Billion Pixels/sec
    Vertices Per Second - 822.5 Million

    7950GT
    pixel pipelines - 24
    Memory Bandwidth - 44.8 GB/sec (6.16% faster)
    Fill Rate - 13.2 Billion Pixels/sec (46.67% faster)
    Vertices Per Second - 1.1 Billion (33.74% faster)
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited December 2006
    Hey, what do you think of these three cards:

    BFG Tech GeForce 7950GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 OC Video Card
    eVGA Geforce 7950GT KO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
    eVGA GeForce 7950GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP KO Superclocked Video Card

    Those eVGA video cards seem pretty good, and the memory chips have a heat sink, and are cooled by the fan. It also seems that the eVGA cards have a higher memory bandwidth than the XFX, 46.4GBs, vs 44.8GB/s for the XFX and 45.7GB/s for the BFG.

    I still am set on the XFX GeForce 7950GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Extreme Edition HDCP Video Card for now.

    However, I bought a eVGA GeForce 4 MX440 64MB video card before for my Mom's computer, it has been in there for about 3-4 years. I am replacing it with a eVGA GeForce FX5500 256MB because her current video card isn't not supported by AutoDesk, and when she tries to render an object, it'll freeze the computer, but at lowest quality settings, it'll render. But I wonder, how well will this FX5500 render AutoCad objects seeing as how this isn't a Quadro FX video card?

    Oh, one other thing, the motherboard in that computer is the KX7-333R. Hopefully this will run the video card because I bought the KX7-333R because the KT7A-RAID v1.3 wouldn't run a PNY GeForce 4 Ti4200 that I bought (kept getting BSOD's)
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