Well today I went to Future Shop and to buy a new video card. Well previously I was checking out their site to see what they had and to my surprise they were selling a ATI Radeon X700 Pro ViVo AGP 256MB card for only 159.99$ So I decided that I would buy it with my Christmas money. When I got there the guy told me that they were out of stock (despite it saying that they were in stock on their web site) but the guy pulled out a Geforce FX 5500 OC saying that it was basically the NVIDIA counterpart of the Radeon so I shrugged and said why not, since there was a 90$ rebate. Now I don't know if that was such a good idea. Was the guy actually telling the truth or was he lying to me? I'm not sure considering the Radeon X700 Pro's original price was 299$ and the Geforce FX 5500's was 179$ So did he rip me off? because if he did I'm going to drive back there tomorrow and return it.

Well what are the memory speeds and clock speeds on both cards?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I personaly would have went with the x700 only because I find ATI's cards have better preformance for the price of mid ranged cards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It comes down to the specs on whats better though.

You know, about that this throughly pisses me off...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE SPECS ARE NEVER ****ING LISTED ON THE GOD DAMN SITES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I mean really, I wanna compare the two and they give me

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This card runs really fast!

 

 

 

6000 Triangles!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and never give me the stats.

You got well and truly RIPPED OFF.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ATI Radeon 9*00 series = nVidia GeForce5*00 series.

 

 

 

ATI Radeon X*00 series = nVidia GeForce 6*00 series.

 

 

 

ATI Radeon X1*00 series = nVidia GeForce 7*00 series.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use that for comparison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Radeon X700 Pro would be approximately the same as maybe a GeForce 6600GT?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't quote me on that, I'm kind of rusty with graphics cards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A GeForce 5500 = Radeon 9700 at best.

I was thinking he got ripped off but didn't want to say anything till someone more wiser posted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would say the x700 is equall to about a 6200gt maybe a little better. I heard my x850 pro is equall to a 6800gt or 6800 unltra.

The X700 Pro was ATI answer to the 6600gt which is quite a recent mid range card. (Although the 6600GT was the better card).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The GeForce 5500 is a old entry level card, which preformed slightly better then the ATI 9600. The 9600 series (Which included several great value for money cards) was replaced by the x700 series.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a link to a review of the 5500, for comparison reasons consider that the x700 pro would preform better then the top cards in that review.

 

 

 

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/124/1/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In short, you were ripped off massively, the two cards are barely comparable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In general the best value for money cards at the moment are:

 

 

 

6600 GT

 

 

 

X800 GTO

 

 

 

6800 GS

ATI STINKS ON ICE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NVIDIA WAY TO GO GET NVIDIA!!!!!!!!!!! OR ELSE

The X700 Pro was ATI answer to the 6600gt which is quite a recent mid range card. (Although the 6600GT was the better card).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Woo! I was right, I only took it off the top of my head too. Guess I still have a little computer knowledge. ^_^;

I seem to remember my work experience supervisor telling me that the geforce5 series were all rather bad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So yeah, as plenty of other people have pointed out, you were ripped off. If its not too late, you should try to return it and get your money back other wise your stuck with a graphics card from 2 series ago.

Oh mang I know I figured it out through E-Bay stats, oh man is that guy going to get a yelling out when I run into the store with the video card. And yeah I just got it today so I'm going to return it and hope to god that the Future Shop in Kitchener restocks before the Boxing Day sale is over. That guy was such a [bleep]0t. When I came into the store and asked if they had it the guy said they were out of stock and then he pulls out this [cabbage]ty little piece of crap and says that it's the NVIDIA version of the X700... bastard.

The FX5500 is a very slightly warmed up version of of the FX5200 - and is the bottom level of Nvidia's directX9 hardware, with rather too much left to software (the vertex shaders are software, as is anything else they can get away with doing that way).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even the FX5600/5700 models (full DX9 hardware) would not be a match for the X700pro

Oh mang I know I figured it out through E-Bay stats, oh man is that guy going to get a yelling out when I run into the store with the video card. And yeah I just got it today so I'm going to return it and hope to god that the Future Shop in Kitchener restocks before the Boxing Day sale is over. That guy was such a [bleep]0t. When I came into the store and asked if they had it the guy said they were out of stock and then he pulls out this cabbage little piece of crap and says that it's the NVIDIA version of the X700... *.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe you should have taken it upon yourself to do the research rather than letting some underpaid disgruntled employee do your 'research' for you. You realize it wasn't exactly a Graphics Card shop, right?

179$ For that card? Thats outrageous. It's like not even a last generation card... its a last last generation. Sure, it can still play most games well...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but I bought my fx5700 a year ago for 150$....

OH SNAP! I got the X700, I had to go through 4 cities to get it but I finally have it, however I have no idea if I got it plugged in right since this is the first time I had to connect it to the power supply. Everything seems to be running right, my Hard Drives are good but the only problem is that whenever I get into Windows XP it says that a new hardware has been found and it's listed as "Unknown" any ideas? I also didn't yell at the guy since I went to a different store this time.

The instructions should give you a detailed setup guide ;)

 

 

 

I remember for the 5200 FX that I have you had to not let windows do any hardware detection until after you've finished setup

Yeah I checked the manual but I was a bit iffy on whether I was doing it right or not since the manual had it set it up for only one hard drive and I had two so it was kind of wacked but I think I did it right. There's no crashes or anything.

It really shouldnt matter how many hard drives you have