What step-up from a 9800 Pro?

[evapor8]

I have a 9800 Pro that is artifacting quite badly when I watch divx videos.

I am thinking it needs replacing, but I can't afford to spend more than £100 (less is better).

I'm sure things have moved on since this.

What should I be looking for?

It needs to be AGP, and I need a DVI and a VGA (???) out.

Thanks,

Chris

 

[mmj_uk]

Is it just DIVX video? try disabling hardware acceleration i've heard ati are a bit buggy with that enabled, it might not be a faulty card at all.

 

[evapor8]

Is it just DIVX video? try disabling hardware acceleration i've heard ati are a bit buggy with that enabled, it might not be a faulty card at all.

Is that a bios thing, or something I could switch off in the Catalyst Control Centre?

Chris

 

[benjo]

Is that a bios thing, or something I could switch off in the Catalyst Control Centre?

Chris

It should be in the media players options, just a setting to turn hardware acceleration off.

 

[evapor8]

It should be in the media players options, just a setting to turn hardware acceleration off.

Turned it off, but still not great.

I think I can put up with it for the time being. Will hold off replacing it until the inevitable PCI-E upgrade.

Thanks guys.

Chris

 

[marc2003]

if you're not much of a gamer, you could always try underclocking it? ati tool should do the job.

http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

 

[Tute]

£50 over your budget would bag you an X800/X850 off the MM, cracking card, and the best I can recommend unless you're willing to over-stretch to the 7800GS, which i'm going to guess you're not

 

[Vegeta]

You could get a 6800nu off members market for £70, just needs a new cooler, seems ideal to me lovely card.

 

[m3csl2004]

iif it just while watching divx videos i would recomend changing the drivers and your divx codec - i use the free divx player from divx.com i get all wierd colours in media player

 

[LoopyLee]

try running a bench look for problems there, sounds like codecs problems to me.

 

[weescott]

if the card has artifacts then its nothing to do with codecs.