cusideabelincoln
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Originally posted by: Schmide
The 1650 pro is only $14 cheaper, the 3650 uses 10% less power, and is about 2.5x as powerful.
Certainly he will be capped by his processor but the better card could enable AA and play at higher resolutions. The 1650 pro is slow enough that it may even bottle neck his processor.
In my opinion the value is not antiquate for the level of performance.
edit : I pulled TF2 from another thread in my memory (oops), but the logic is the same.
I hope you will provide sources or some of these claims. The X1650 will NOT "bottleneck" his processor. It will be the other way around: His 1.5 GHz Athlon XP will bottleneck an X1650, to some degree.
And I do not believe the 3650 is 2.5x as powerful, either. The 3650 will be overall faster, and definitely be fastest in newer, shader-heavy games, but it's not over twice as powerful for casual or older games.
My recommendation is for him to spend the least amount of money possible. I would say he should go on ebay and look or these cards:
Geforce 6600GT, 6800 series, 7600 series
Radeon X1600 series, X1650 series, HD 2600 series, HD 3600 series
and see what's the cheapest he can get. His processor will be a limiting factor with just about any of these cards.