Video Card Comparison

[Lucid484]

I have and Older 1.2ghz athlon with 512mb PC-133 on an ABIT KT7A-RAID and I wish I could just get some head to head benchmarks from my GeForce 2 Ti and the new Radeon X800!!! Most of my games play great BF1942,Vietcong etc... but that new game Joint Operations I get like 5 FPS and it sucks!! Totally unplayable! Just wondering if I could get decent framerates with the latest Video Card and a slightly "Older" system?

 

[Matthias99]

If you're willing to buy an X800, couldn't you also get a Barton 2500+ for ~$80 and plug it into your MB?

Seriously, though, you're going to have problems with a lot of newer games with a CPU that slow (especially with PC133 RAM). If you're willing to spend $300-500 to upgrade your system, get a newer CPU/MB/RAM and a slightly cheaper video card (like a 9800Pro/5900XT).

 

[Marsumane]

You should just get an entire new system. Start with mobo, ram and processor. Then use your old video card until you can get a new one. This is probably the best upgrade path you could go with when trying to play new games on an old system.

 

[Lucid484]

well problem is I just bought a house and really have no money,but I was gonna sell one of my old analog synths to afford the vid card to help my games out now and within the year upgrade the rest of my system when I can afford it.I mean I write digital audio and surf the net mostly and my system for all that is plenty fast.Plus I wanted to wait till PCI-X started comming out more in the mainstream and either get one of those systems or get the not so "latest" processor and mobo and still be alot faster than my system but alot cheaper than the latest and greatest .. IE an athlon 64 FX chips is about $700 while and athlon 64 3500+ is $400 about half the cost for near the same performance.

 

[nanaki333]

Originally posted by: Marsumane
You should just get an entire new system. Start with mobo, ram and processor. Then use your old video card until you can get a new one. This is probably the best upgrade path you could go with when trying to play new games on an old system.

pc upgrading 101

 

[Lucid484]

yeah I know I've built a total of about 6 complete systems for people and my last last system lasted me 4 years thru upgrading...Problem is that my vid card is just too damn slow to play a few games my system as a whole does everything else I need it too.Plus I just don't have the $$$

 

[LTC8K6]

It's possible than an X800 or a 6800 wouldn't do much for you with that system.

I would get a faster CPU and a 5900XT if I really couldn't get a whole new system.

 

[Lucid484]

yeah i hear what your all saying but if I'll be uprading the rest of the components in the near future it would kinda be a waste of money to get the 5900XT or even radeon 9800 when I would be upgrading shortly after and I know I would be all bummed out =)

 

[pcmodem]

WAIT!

Before you consider buying a video card, what's your power supply?

The ATI x800 and nVidia 6800 series both require significant juice.



Cheers, :beer:
PCM

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Lucid484
yeah i hear what your all saying but if I'll be uprading the rest of the components in the near future it would kinda be a waste of money to get the 5900XT or even radeon 9800 when I would be upgrading shortly after and I know I would be all bummed out =)

Well... if you plan on doing a major overhaul in the near future, you might consider trying to find something a *little* cheaper that still gives good performance, like a used/refurb 9700Pro/9800NP. You'd still get a decent resale value on one of those in, say, 6 months -- and you could pick up a next-gen card when you upgrade your whole system.