The ATI a very good card at the moment. The GeForce4 440 Go does a little better in most of the benchmarks but for the most part they are nearly equal. You can't get anything better for a notebook at the moment.
Ya, sure a rad7500 is a good card and all, but its a downgrade from a rad9000 as listed in your systems specs. It might be more wise to go with a nvidia gf4 or another 9000 ( a few of the new-new-new games need them (splinter cell 4-1) but if your cheap and or poor like me go with 7500!
If your card burned out, I can see replacing it. But what in the heck are you wanting to replace the 9000 with a 7500 for? The 7500 is a lesser card, it would be ignorant to downgrade to that.
Not to mention that the radeon 7500 probably costs more then the 9000. Since you have a 8200 you should be able to call dell spareparts and order a replacement radeon 9000 video card with 64 mb for about 129+ shipping. Deffinetly don't trade down. The Radeon 7500 is a DX7 part, the Radeon 9000 is a DX8.1 part. Deffinatly stick with it if you can get another one..
okay dude, here's the scoop on the cards you CAN buy and use... Go with the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, or with the nVidia GeForce4 440 Go: Also, get your drivers for radeons and GeForces from www.omegacorner.com this sites drivers dont care what Bios you have: this would allow you to run the Radeon 7500 without changing to an I8100 Bios.
nVidia Qaudro FX go700~From all acounts gives very good performance (you may need to use a percision M50 bios to run it becuase dell does not offer drivers under I8200 for the Qaudro FX)
ATI Radeon Mobility 9000~good but has is suported by the 8200 so it's safer
nVidia GeForce4 440 Go~I think this card is available in 128 mb and is comparable to the 9000 also supported for the 8200 by dell
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500~Only one I have personal experiance with: It ran army ops 1.9 on my 8000 9000mhz 320mb. Pretty good card but I doubt that I could have gotton more the 800x600 and it was still a tab choppy near the begging of a round... 900mhz CPU probobly didn't help... :p this card is way than a GF2 and not quite as good as the GF4 440
nVidia GeForce2 go~If you put this cr4py, unreliable old 32mb card in your 8200 you have gone insane! YOur better of with an ATI Rage M4
ATI Rage M4: Good card for older games very reliable: dont have featuresof the gf2 (TL engine) better dvd playback, more reliable and decent performance for what it is! Need like an I8000 bios to run this thing... So unless you want to replace with a $20 video card of ebay dont get it!
MichaelTR
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duffyanneal
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duffyanneal
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May 18th, 2002 23:00
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Bascan
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December 23rd, 2003 00:00
Rabid_Monkey
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December 23rd, 2003 06:00
Ya, sure a rad7500 is a good card and all, but its a downgrade from a rad9000 as listed in your systems specs. It might be more wise to go with a nvidia gf4 or another 9000 ( a few of the new-new-new games need them (splinter cell 4-1) but if your cheap and or poor like me go with 7500!
mAlfunkti0n
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December 23rd, 2003 19:00
cking32
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December 24th, 2003 13:00
Not to mention that the radeon 7500 probably costs more then the 9000. Since you have a 8200 you should be able to call dell spareparts and order a replacement radeon 9000 video card with 64 mb for about 129+ shipping. Deffinetly don't trade down. The Radeon 7500 is a DX7 part, the Radeon 9000 is a DX8.1 part. Deffinatly stick with it if you can get another one..
schaki
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December 24th, 2003 15:00
Rabid_Monkey
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December 24th, 2003 17:00
okay dude, here's the scoop on the cards you CAN buy and use... Go with the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000, or with the nVidia GeForce4 440 Go: Also, get your drivers for radeons and GeForces from www.omegacorner.com this sites drivers dont care what Bios you have: this would allow you to run the Radeon 7500 without changing to an I8100 Bios.
nVidia Qaudro FX go700~From all acounts gives very good performance (you may need to use a percision M50 bios to run it becuase dell does not offer drivers under I8200 for the Qaudro FX)
ATI Radeon Mobility 9000~good but has is suported by the 8200 so it's safer
nVidia GeForce4 440 Go~I think this card is available in 128 mb and is comparable to the 9000 also supported for the 8200 by dell
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500~Only one I have personal experiance with: It ran army ops 1.9 on my 8000 9000mhz 320mb. Pretty good card but I doubt that I could have gotton more the 800x600 and it was still a tab choppy near the begging of a round... 900mhz CPU probobly didn't help... :p this card is way than a GF2 and not quite as good as the GF4 440
nVidia GeForce2 go~If you put this cr4py, unreliable old 32mb card in your 8200 you have gone insane! YOur better of with an ATI Rage M4
ATI Rage M4: Good card for older games very reliable: dont have featuresof the gf2 (TL engine) better dvd playback, more reliable and decent performance for what it is! Need like an I8000 bios to run this thing... So unless you want to replace with a $20 video card of ebay dont get it!
schaki
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December 25th, 2003 15:00