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I was planning on upgrading my system in 6 months or so, I usually upgrade major components every couple years. But my Radeon 9700 died recently (corrupted display/patterns during boot, and hardware failure when the drivers load), so I need to upgrade early, unless someone knows how to fix that specifically, but all symptoms seem to point to the card itself and I don't have another AGP system to test it on.

I'm not sure which direction to go, I've read about the PCI express, and dual core graphics, and new AGP offereings, but it doesn't seem clear on which way is best:

I could just get a new AGP card, but I think I might as well want to upgrade my motherboard and CPU now also. So any recommendations?

I have a 2.0Ghz Athlon 64 by the way, I've prefered AMD because of their price/performance ratio, but I'm thinking of moving away from ATI for graphics because I've had more problems with their cards.
And this is for a use of computer gaming mostly.
 
one question i had the same card and a similar thing happened did the card burn or show any damage to it. Did you overclock it and what motherboard were you using
 
Well I would upgrade to a 939 Athlon 64 which you then would need a new motherboard, and then could buy a new PCIE Video card. I think NVidia is a fine choice, but I would stay with ATI and go with a x800xl, great price for a great card, which will work great for gaming........great great great.....lol
 
No noticable damage to the card. I didn't overclock it or change anything.
Motherboard is an MSI K8T Neo (MS - 6702 Ver 1.0)
 
Originally posted by: thecoolnessrune
I'd do nVididia because it handles SM 3.0. Which make SC CT (Splinter Cell Chaos Theory) look uber cool. 😀
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If you used a SM 2.0 Radeon, the image quality would be near the same. As of now, SM 3.0 is not utilized in modern graphics applications.

nVidia only attempted to future proof there cards with this technology in attempts to try and draw customers away from ATi (opinion)
 
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