Radeon Vs Powercolor

[kaiweiler]

Hey is there any real performance difference between an ATI Radeon card, or a Powercolor one? Both 9600XT
if not what are you paying extra for in the Radeon?

[abu_has_the_power]

usually the ati made ones are more expensive. powercolor suckes my balls. they can't make mobo's for shit! but not sure bout vd cards. i'd go with some other company

[kaiweiler]

like...

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by kaiweiler@18 January 2004 - 11:49
like...
search around on pricewatch and newegg

[kaiweiler]

I'm from canada but i've been searchin on greenlyph, mysterybyte, ncix, and canadacomputers...
but for the 9600XT what brand is best? saphire, ati, powercolor, etc? does it make a huge difference?

[SciManAl]

ATI has a much greater qaulity than powercooler... powercooler is simply an offbrand... if you ever pushed your card... it wouldn't take as much as an ATI would...

[Mad Cat]

I can't seem to find any of these ATi produced cards. Only other brands bringing them out on ATi chipset.

[bigdawgfoxx]

my 9700Pro powercolor seems to be great...great scores and stuff...no need to overclock it anyway..im happy with it.

[mr. nails]

powercolor is fine... ;)

[johnboy27]

Originally posted by SciManAl@18 January 2004 - 17:52
ATI has a much greater qaulity than powercooler... powercooler is simply an offbrand... if you ever pushed your card... it wouldn't take as much as an ATI would...
I disagree.I have talked to numerous techs at numerous shops and asked them the difference between the "Built by ATI" and the powercolor's sapphire,etc and have been told eveytime that the difference is in the price.I am sure that some companies don't make an up to par product but most do.
ATI knows that there will always be lets say 40% of their market that are willing to pay XX number of dollars more just because the card says"built by ATI" .

[adamp2p]

What I am sure of is that in most cases Powercolor sticks exactly to the ATi reference model. However, in some cases, they have been known to use lower quality RAM chips.

[Spicker]

Originally posted by adamp2p@19 January 2004 - 10:34
What I am sure of is that in most cases Powercolor sticks exactly to the ATi reference model. However, in some cases, they have been known to use lower quality RAM chips.
yes thts for there Powercolor 9600pro EZ 400/400 <bad ram>

[lynx]

Ati are rumoured to be intending to pull out of graphics card manufacturing, and concentrate on simply supplying the chips. However, until other card makers up their market share, they are continuing to supply cards too. These are at inflated prices to encourage buyers to look at other manufacturers, mainly because they don&#39;t want people to swap to Nvidia if they can&#39;t find a card made by Ati.

[kaiweiler]

thanks for the info lynx, never knew that&#33; B)
so really then there&#39;s not to much, if any difference between ATI and something like a powercolor or saphire?? performance and quality wise
ATi is just making them expensive so that others will still buy the same card just made by another company instead of switching to nvidia. makes sence in a way
i just want confirmation on the fact that there is no performance decrease when buying a powercolor, if someone were to do so

Kai

[bigdawgfoxx]

I did so, and the thing freaking rocks. I would recommend powercolor if you want to get that :)

[johnboy27]

I had a powercolor Radeon 7500 (64 mb ddr) and the thing worked extremely well.

[RGX]

I have heard nothing but good things about powercolours, although i&#39;ve never used one myself...however, my next GFX card will probably be one due to a severe lack of funds :lol: