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Radeon 9700 np bottleneck?

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c4nnonfodder

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Im thinking im going to get a Radeon 9700 non pro but my current system is a little old. It is a Pentium 3 650mhz, 640mb ram, and ASUS P3V4X mobo.
I am wondering how badly this will bottleneck my video cards performance on games I play. I mainly play Counter-Strike. Im hoping to at least get 60+ fps.
 
Okay, but my only problem with that is that my current video card wont work on the newer boards because it is agp 2x and I want to get stuff that will last me for a little while.
 
Ouch - that would be a HUGE bottleneck. IF you are planning on getting a new pc in a month from now or something then you might want to wait that month and pick up the 9700np for possibly cheaper.

But if you really need something now just to tide yourself over go for it - just realize that your rig will be a huge bottleneck 🙂

With CS though you should be able to get more than 60FPS with that...
 
Counterstrike is FLAWLESS on an athlon 700 + GeForce2 GTS. The radeon 9700 (any version) is a COMPLETE waste of money for CS.

All games that are bottlenecked will be severely limited by your CPU, but understand that counter-strike should be fine if you spend $30 on a GeForce DDR/GTS (My brother has a GF DDR, I have a GTS, we both had 700MHz athlons, both computers were flawless in CS at 1024x768). If you want to play at a really high resolution, a geforce3 might help a little, but for normal resolutions, you'd be fine with any geforce or something like a radeon LE / VE.
 
yea bascially what everyone has said... i had a p3 800....w/ gf2 mx....100 fps all times....then i switched to radeon 9500 pro...actually it was a bit slower ...felt like it at least....
 
On this machine, I have a GF2 MX440 64MB card ... you can pick them up for about 25 dollars now.

At any rate, I can play CS and DOD at any resolution I want without any hicups ....

If you only play these games, I would save your money on a video card and put it towards other components.
 
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