new 3D card on a dated system (kinda)

[blodhi74]

I am running an AMD 1400 TB on ASUS A7V 133 MOBO with 1 gig of PC133 ram.... currently have nvidia GForce MX 400 with 32 MB of ram .... will I get a good level of 3D performance increase if I go with an ATI 9000 or a 9500 ... any replys will be helpful

 

[JBT]

you should get a bit of improvement I have an old machine that is similar to urs I 1.4 t bird 512 ram upgraded from a geforece 2 ti that I got 3d mark scores of 5400 with now with a 9500 pro I doubled them atleast. So if u think 2wice the 3d mark scores is any sort of improvment then yeah go for it. it will be a nice card if you ever decide to upgrade your rig too.

 

[blodhi74]

thanks for the reply. As far as gen usage on the system I'm quite happy with the performance and wont be updating it soon but still wanna run games @ higher frame rates. My current card runs old games like Quake 3 but have to revert to 800 X 600 while running newer games and U can forget about AA .

 

[edm]

I'm running a T-Bird 1.4 with a Geforce2 GTS and asked a similar question regarding upgrading to a 9500PRO or a 9700 PRO, and the consensus was I would see a significant improvement in game performance, so I would imagine you should as well.

Now all i have to do is pull the trigger on the 9700 PRO