What's the best match for a AMD XP 2400 AGP?

[Pulsar]

Well, the 9700 pro has served me well. Unfortunately I think it's met its match in oblivion.

So tell me - I've been looking at video cards and I'm no dummy, but frankly the number of models that the two companies can intentionally release to confuse people is.... astounding.

What IS the best option right now for an AGP solution with an AMD XP 2400+ processor?

Some cards I'm looking at:
$129 GEforce7600GS (256MB)
$131 GEforce6600GT (256MB)
$139 X1600Pro (512MB)
$141 GEforce 7600GS (512MB)
$145 GEforce 6800XT (256MB)

To me (and help me here if I'm wrong), it looks like I should just pick up the 7600GS (512MB).

Okay guys - tell me why I'm wrong in this price range.

 

[Munky]

Get a 256mb 7600gs. None of the cards listed above are anywhere close to having a fast enough gpu to put 512mb of vram to good use.

 

[tbike06]

Yup, 7600 GS blows everything else away

 

[Pulsar]

Ok. So, finally, am I correct in thinking that teh 7600 GS will basically double my graphical performance over my 9700 pro, or will it be CPU limited?

 

[Sonikku]

I owned a 2400+ and it was limiting my 9600XT considerably. You probably won't notice much of a performance gain.

 

[tuteja1986]

X850XT $150 would be the best agp :! check Tomshardware review and you will see it beat 7600GT easy.

 

[Sonikku]

I think we're talking AGP here. An AGP X850XT for AGP is far more expsensive then it is for PCIe. Although the X800XT is just a frame behind for that price. It sure gives the 7600GS bloody nose, but that won't stop his CPU holding him back.

 

[BassBomb]

cpu limit alert!

my 6600GT was limited by my AMD AthlonXP 2500+
so you will be just as limited if not more..

 

[Sonikku]

Yeah really. With a system of 1 gig of DDR RAM, 9600XT and AMD 2400+ CPU, simply going with a 3400+ made my performance in WoW double to quadrouple depending on the area. I had no idea just how bottlenecked my first video card was until I got a better chip.

 

[Gstanfor]

You should upgrade your cpu before your video card. Especially for Oblivion. I went along time on a 2400+ myself, but modern cpu's and memory sub-systems absolutely slaughter it.