ATI Giving HL2 Out Free

[mr-2cool]

ATI is giving out HL2 copies for specific video cards purchased before a certain date...

Link (http://www.ati.com/gitg/promotions/halflife2/coupon.html)

All I want to know is if this will work with those $130 Radeon 9600SE's at Best Buy which people are testing at home with 3dmark and claiming they are really 9600 Pro's. (Says there is a sticker on back saying card is a 9600 Pro as well.)

[ray]

It's a great deal so long they actually follow through with it when the game is released next year.

[ziggie216]

lets just hope they remember to send it out when HL2 is release.. which is probably April 2004

[bachviet]

Link is gone.

[friends]

try this: http://www.ati.com/gitg/promotions/halflife2/

[Pakron]

Are those 9600se's? that test as pros only shipped to best buy or are they all 9600se's? Any online documentation to confirm this?

[zippyjuan]

I bought a Radeon 9700 non-pro in January and after I downloaded the latest drivers a few months later it is listed on my computer as 9700 Pro, but of course the memory is not as fast as a Pro. What are the memory speeds on these cards? Are they really faster or is it just a name thing too?

[sbp]

zippyjuan: http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20021024/index.html

[elmalloc]

When half life 2 comes out I advise everyone to buy teh best video card out.

[glagic]

does the free hl2 apply to a radeon 9600? like a regular one? not se, pro, or xt?

[Master-Q]

If you go to Bestbuy or CC, you look at the video card box and it should have a sticker that say it will come with it or not. I know that 9600 don't and that the 9600 XT and 9600 SE do come with the Half-Life 2 coupon.

Master-Q

[djsusm]

"Once you have the coupon you have two ways to get your complimentary copy of VALVE's full version game Half-Life® 2:"

What coupon? I didn't get a coupon from the store... I just bought the 9800 from Microcenter.