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nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 upgraded to ATI X850 Pro

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Fike

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Okay, I was stuck in the stone age. I upgraded from the GeFroce4 Ti4200 to an ATI X850 Pro. Battlefield 2 with eye candy turned all the way up at over 30 FPS. Turn eyecandy down slightly and it is 50 fps. What a difference it makes. I can see bad guys better and shoot better. AOE3 is actually playable now. I understand what everyone was taling about with its graphics. The canons are awesome when taking down a building or troop of soldiers.

I didn't think the $130 investment would make such a big difference. I thought about getting a used 6800GT or new 7600 GS. I am glad I got the 850. I was worried about interactions between the mboard with an nvidia nforce chipset, and it did kind of tank my system briefly when my ethernet driver and all my peripherals needed to be reinstalled. I got it working again.

X850 Pro rocks if you are still using AGP.
 
While that must have been quite a large leap, I don't think it really compares to the leap I made back in '03. I had a PII 450mhz machine with an ATI Rage 128 Pro, 384MB ram, and I upgraded to a Radeon 9800pro and ended up getting a new motherboard a year later in which I transferred my 9800pro to.

So yeah, I'd say Rage 128-->9800pro is a larger leap..
 
Originally posted by: goku
While that must have been quite a large leap, I don't think it really compares to the leap I made back in '03. I had a PII 450mhz machine with an ATI Rage 128 Pro, 384MB ram, and I upgraded to a Radeon 9800pro and ended up getting a new motherboard a year later in which I transferred my 9800pro to.

So yeah, I'd say Rage 128-->9800pro is a larger leap..
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An even bigger leap would me when I changed from a basic onboard video on my Pentium 233, to a Riva TNT with a Voodoo2. 😉
 
I went from a 9800 to a x1900xt, which was nice! 🙂

Nothing like the difference an 8800 makes though, that's a really sweet jump that one.
 
Geforce 2 MX 400 -> GF 5600 Ultra (yes its bleh, but was much better than the gf2) -> Radeon 9800 Pro (it was on a bad willamette P4, so i couldn't see its full potential, works today still though) -> Geforce 6800 128mb (pretty good jump, nothing earth shattering but solid) -> X1950Pro (about same as previous, good to have new games playable again with some decent eye-candy)
 
I went from a 9700pro to a 6800GT....actually come to think of it it was pretty meh, it wasn't the huge jump I had hoped for...but it wasn't a waste of money either, same graphic quality with slightly higher frame rates.
 
2 Years ago I went from a 9700 PRO to a X800XT PE and was a huge jump in performance, like 2.5 times, such jump doesn't occur very often. I guess that the biggest difference in performance in generation was from the R300 to R420. Cause even when you consider the jump from a R480 to a R520 wasn't that big, and the only difference you can see if you jump from a R480 to a R580 in high resolutions only, like 1600x1200 and above. And now, you may see the difference between the R580+ and G80 and the jump is healthy, but far from being 2.5x times.
 
Few years back I went from a piddling rage pro laptop to a radeon 9000pro when it came out. Even though it was a budget card, the difference was like night and day.
 
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