Originally posted by LeeJend
Someone up a few posts said 9000 and up ATI cards are DX9. That is not true the 9000/9200 are based on the 8500 chipset which is DX8 hardware. The 9500 and up are DX 9 hardware cards. That said many cards will run DX9 programs using software drivers to do the hardware translation. They will be very slow at DX9 games though.
As for pricing I'm waiting on a price break with the new releases too. Here's the latest street prices with warantee:
ATI 9500 PRO $200 (BEST BUY OR ALLSTARSHOP) 3yr ATI
ATI 9500 Can't find any think ATI left them for OEM
OEM 9500 PRO $175 (Allstarshop) 1yr by reseller
OEM 9500 (only 64mb) $136 1yr by reseller
ATI 9700 PRO $299 (BEST BUY OR ALLSTARSHOP) 3yr ATI
OEM 9700 PRO $149 (Allstarshop) 1yr by reseller
PS I agree the 4200-8 is a great card for the price. Shame Nvidia can't get its FX chip line working right and into volume production. I suspect we'll see the same rip off as the Athlon Tbred initial release. A heat pig that nearly bankrupted AMD until they got the A and then the B revisions into volume production a year late...