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Article #33660New system and graphics quality
From: Mark Friesen
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 01:12
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 01:12
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I just finsihed building a new system, partialy so I could play Generals. My old system was a PIII 500 with an original ATI AIW Radeon. The new system is a P4 2.53 533FSB and 512meg of DDR333. I tried an ATI AIW Radion 8500DV in this rig. The 8500DV only has 64meg and is clocked way down compared to a regular 8500 GPU. This did not do well with Generals. The action would get jerky and the cursor would disappear whenever I moved it. Even with the cursor still it would blink. Needless to say playing was very difficult since I wouldn't be able to track the cursor during battle. Over the weekend some local stores got ATI AIW 8500s in stock. I snapped one up Sunday and what a difference!!! Everything looks great and no hick-ups what so ever. I can really tell that the AIW 8500 has a full functioning 8500 GPU compared to the 8500DVs hobbled processor. Just a point of reference for everyone- stay away from the AIW 8500DV for Generals.
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