Will upgrading from a 9700 Pro to a X800 XT give me a decent boost?

[BroadbandGamer]

My kid has a 9700 Pro in his system. I really don't want to upgrade his mobo, PS, and CPU.

Would upgrading from a 9700 Pro to a X800 XT be a pretty good upgrade? The only game he plays is World of Warcraft and it seems to run pretty good on his 9700 Pro.

Thanks,

 

[y0d4]

Yes, it will be quite an upgrade. I'm a WoW addictmyself, and with 9800PRO i was runnning 1024x768, mostly med/high settings, 4X Multisampling, and 40-55 FPS. I got an x800xt, and it now runs at 1280x1024 everything on max. What are the rest of your sytem specs? What settings does he run WoW on now?

 

[2Xtreme21]

Let's see his other system specs.

 

[Aznguy1872]

If his CPU is semi decent, then the boost will be pretty good. IF the cpu is not so good, then performance gain will still be good but not as good as it could be due to the bottleneck of the CPU.

 

[beserker15]

not sure bout WoW but a 9700 -> x800pro gave me a pretty nice boost in other games, able to use aa/af where i can't before.

 

[T2k]

Back in June 2004, when I bought my X800XTPE, I've upgraded from 9700 Pro and even though I had some old Athlon setup remaining for next few weeks - until I received my FX-53 back then -, the jump was really amazing.

 

[whitewarrior11]

I just upgraded from a 9600XT to a X800XT PE and the jump is just...huge Games I wasn't able to play up to my standards (something like 1280x1024 with medium to high settings, usually basic antialiasing if possible) are now better than ever (turn everything on and looking real good). Surely, WoW is probably not the actual reference for needing a really up-to-date graphics card but I can tell that I have been playing it with everything maxed out at 1280x1024. I could probably do the same with 1600x1200, although I can't guarantee it. The X800XT (whether it is platinum edition or not) is probably good enough for most, if not all, games (IMHO).