Video card advice for 1.4GHz Tualatin

[BuckNaked]

I have a second system with an Intel board running a 1.4GHz Tualatin Celeron, and was looking for advice on a card to throw in there... I am thinking 9600 Pro, but would like some advice....

Thanks!
Dave

 

[Soulkeeper]

the 9600 pro would be fine in there
the FX 5600 ultra might also be good
heck even a 9700 pro
i wouid got for a dx 9 card tho

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Anything more than a gF4Ti/R9600 is probably overkill. Even those are pushing the limits.

R9000/9200 or gF3 series would probably be more than enough. Depends on what you want to play on it.

- M4H

 

[DannyBoy]

Sorry but, erm, why the hell are you putting something like a 9600 pro in a rig with a 1.4 tualatin?

I mean, your not actually planning on playing games are you

 

[lordtyranus2]

I believe in getting the best card you can afford, regardless of processor specs. When/if you get a new processor you can xfer the card.

 

[rogue1979]

I just tested a GF4 ti 4800 128MB @ 325/680MHz in a P3 733@1017MHz on a 183MHz fsb. Using coolbits I lowered and raised the speed of the video card. And, yes, it did show an improvement in 3DMark2001 all the way to the max video card speed. It topped out at 8000 pts. Point being while the same card scores 14K+ in my main rig, the slower computer still showed a performance increase with the extra video power.

 

[modedepe]

I agree a ti4200 or radeon 9600 pro would be the max you should put in it. Having an unbalanced machine makes no sense at all, imo.

 

[Wolfdog]

http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=60000242

You should get the best card that you can buy. The ti4200 still is a good card and can be found on pricewatch for as little as $80. I think it also bears mention that we no longer live in a totally cpu dependant world when it comes to graphics cards. More and more of the burdensome cpu related tasks are being moved to the gpu. The fact of the matter is a 1ghz cpu with a good chipset/mb is still very playable in even the most demanding games. Couple that with a capable video card and you still can do just about anything with it. I have been shopping around to replace my gainward ti4200 which is giving out. You can get a ti4600 for ~150, a fx5700 for ~200 a 5900 value ~220, a 9700 ~220. The more powerful your card the better. You may not get high fps, but you can turn on all of the options to high and quite possibly aa/ansio to boot. I am running a tualatin 1.2ghz/133 setup, and probably will just go with another 4200. They are cheap and stable, while leaving enough to upgrade again next year. Probably to a nv40/r420 mainstream card next summer. It might not be the fastest setup in the world, but it will certainly play HL2 and doom3. Most of the new titles coming out next year and possibly even this year are more hinged on how well your graphics card performs and how much memory it has rather than having a SOTA cpu.

 

[Wolfsraider]

a friend is running a 9800 pro in a 1 gig intel machine


he has no regrets

he is planing to upgrade in march-may so thats one less thing to upgrade

good luck
mike

 

[atlr]

Check out this thread for some links to benchmarks with some older systems.
<a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=31&threadid=1146644">Video Card Recom. for an Older System
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I decided to add a 9800NP to my 1.4 GHz *primary* system. Given that your talking about a secondary system, I imagine you already have something like this on your primary rig. I agree that the 9600 is a good choice.

DannyBoy, your comments add negative value to this thread in my opinion.

 

[INemtsev]

lol

 

[INemtsev]

Does the agp slot even support 8x

 

[superbooga]

I disagree with anyone who says that a 9800-level video card is overkill on a 1.4 Ghz computer.

Heck, I switched from a Geforce 2 to a 9600Pro on a P!!! system (now I have a P4) and it made a difference. In Warcraft III, the game always chugged during a big battle, and I always thought it was my CPU (I ran the game in 16-bit color, trying to make sure it wasn't the vid card that slowed the game down). With a 9600Pro, the game was probably SLOWER (as compared to on a GF2) when there was nothing happening, but the game didn't slow down during a big battle.

For DirectX 8 and 9 games that use shaders intensively, video card is more important than CPU. A 1ghz + 9800 will smoke a 3 ghz + GF4. On the other hand, for a game like UT2003, get the fastest CPU possible.