Lasereth

I've never heard of this card, and not one professional benchmarking website had any info on it. Can you find more links? This is weird...I've been following the videocard industry in-depth for a good while now, and I honestly had no idea this card even existed!

You're right about the GeForce 4. That's a great deal. But the 9600SE is not the card to get for under $100. Radeon SE's are infamous for being low-quality and the "bargain-bin" videocards. On top of that, the 9600 SE isn't even a Pro. Furthermore, even if it was...say, a ATI Radeon 9600 PRO for $160, it still wouldn't be as powerful as a simple 64 MB GeForce 4 TI4200. Most consumers underestimate how powerful the TI4200 is. The TI4200 is at least 40% more powerful than that 9600 SE; it may be even more powerful than that.

I still have to suggest a GeForce 4 TI4200. The 64 MB and 128 MB are nearly as powerful as each other (with the 64 MB actually out-performing it in some tests) and you can find both for under $100. Trust me, the GeForce FX 5200, 5600, and 5700, and the Radeon 9200, 9600, and 9600 XT still have NOTHING on the GeForce 4 TI4200. Well, not entirely nothing...they have DX9 support. But what good is DX9 if your videocard can't play the games that use it?

-Lasereth

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