Is my ati radeon 9600 pro 256mb a good graphic card?

Hi matthew both these are not actually graphic cards but i.g. P,s or intergrated graphic processors and these are built into the motherboard to save manufacturing costs however todays igp,s are pretty good.. I bought my wife a acer aspire x3200 which uses the nvidia 9200 igp and this is more than capable of running some less demanding games... infact when I ran the nvidia "can you run it " utility it reported it could run crysis warhead,assassins creed 2 and bioshock 2 .. which amazed me for a igp as for these igp,s the geforce 9100 has a 550mhz core clock and a memory bandwidth of 21gb/sec... and 21gb/sec is very impressive for any igp .. this bandwidth is normally only found on dedicated graphic cards the ATI Radeon HD 4200 on the other hand has a 500mhz core and shader clock and 40 shader pipelines ... and compared to the geforce 9100 its a tad behind in performance... allthough again the ATI Radeon HD 4200 is still a pretty impressive igp so I would go with the NVIDIA GeForce 9100 . However if you will be using the pc for gaming I would buy a dedicated graphic card as soon as possible... something like the radeon HD4850 retails for under £80 and will run any of todays games with ease... also the nvidia gts250 is avalible for under £80 and will also make light work of todays games I have also seen a bargain card in the shape of the "XFX GeForce 8600 GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card"( http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Othe... ) ... this costs only £25 and for that you get a 128bit memory interface,540mhz core clock and 256mb of gddr3 memory running at 700mhz(1400mhz ddr effective ) .... ... this would be a ideal first card for any new pc ... or until you can afford something more powerful I hope this helps,any problems let me know good luck matthew!

The Radeon 4200 is better, however.... neither of those cards is good for gaming. Overall, they rank #160 and #166 among laptop graphics cards. http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Grap... If you're getting a desktop PC, don't worry- you'll have to buy a separate graphics card anyway.

Even a $50 card like the Radeon 4650 is waaaay better than either of those. If you're getting a laptop and want to play games, pick a laptop with a better graphics card (class 2 or higher) because you can't change it later.

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