9200 or 9600se?

[Hungrycookpot]

I know they're both fairly out dated, but i need a new card just to get me through a couple of weeks, and i found these two for the exact same price. My friend who owns the store selling them tells me i should get the 9600se, but my friend who used to work there says 9200? I'm thinking that the 9600 should be better, shouldnt it?

[blubomber]

I would probably say the 9600se. It is based on DirectX 9 technology and the 9200 is DX 8. I believe that the 9600 also has a faster core and memory than the 9200.

[washe]

save a little more and dont invest on any ati card that has the "se"..... they are way slower that they counterparts

what its your budget?

[Peter M]

It's a give and take. The 9200 is faster in bandwidth hungry but older games, while the 9600SE with its DX9 engine is faster in newer games as long as they don't ask for too much bandwidth.

[sweeper2]

I bought a 9200 SE 128 and I do believe it was direct X9 compatible. I am not sure of the straight 9200, but for the price your oging to pay, i would maybe save alittle more money and get a 9600 pro, if it is in your budget, as I have owend a FX 5200 128, a 9600 128 pro, 9200SE 128 and out of all of them I would rate it this way

#1 9600 pro 128 X8
#2 FX 5200 128 X8
#3 9200SE 128 X8

I now own a Abit Siluro GE Force4 TI4200 64 mg X4 and it dbles the 9200SE in benchmarks but is not direct x 9 compatable, but have had no problems playing some direct x9 games.

[Peter M]

9200 is DX8 hardware. Sure, the drivers are DX9 compatible, but the hardware has none of the acceleration functions that have been added to 9 over 8.

Careful with the 5200 cards. Most of the cheaper ones are castrated in RAM bandwidth, the same way as the Radeon "SE" cards are, using only half as many RAM chips ... only without a specific suffix that'd let you tell the slow ones from the normal ones.

[sweeper2]

Originally posted by Peter M
9200 is DX8 hardware. Sure, the drivers are DX9 compatible, but the hardware has none of the acceleration functions that have been added to 9 over 8.

Careful with the 5200 cards. Most of the cheaper ones are castrated in RAM bandwidth, the same way as the Radeon "SE" cards are, using only half as many RAM chips ... only without a specific suffix that'd let you tell the slow ones from the normal ones.

Ok, didn't think of that on the 9200 card. anyway, my ti4200 almost dbls the 9200se card and almost get's the same benchmark as my 9600 pro did.