Upgraded to ATI 9600SE

I've preferred NVidia video cards for a long time. Saturday at Boise Fragfest's Old Skool LAN they had five VisionTek Xtasy ATI 9600SE video cards as raffle prizes along with a whole lot of other stuff. I've been ready for a video card upgrade for a few years now. I was using a borrowed NVidia GeForce 3. I thought it would be really nice to win one of those video cards.

I went to the restroom during one of the prize drawings, but left my ticket with Matt, which was a good thing because he was there to claim one of the video cards for me. It was really exciting to get back to my computer and find the video card waiting for me.

It turned out they had enough prizes to go through the raffle tickets again. They were getting down to the last few prizes and I looked at what was left. They only thing they had left that I was interested in was another one of those video cards. Well it turned out to be the last prize they drew for, and wouldn't you know it, I won it too! I sold the second one to a friend of mine.

Overall I think it was a great investment for the $10 admission price.

The card has been a really nice upgrade. It comes with a lot of really impressive demos and a nice tweak utility. I may be converted to ATI now. I am really happy with this card.

3/29/2005 Update: I indicated I won the 9800SE instead of the 9600SE (Second sentence in the first paragraph). Wishful thinking I guess, but I am completely happy with the 9600SE.