Worth installing 6950 in older machine if you have it? :P

[liddabit]

Hi guys!

I'm building Mfenn's build piece by piece as I get my paychecks. It will be about 2 weeks before I get all the parts in.

So far I have the powersupply and the AMD HD6950 coming in tomorrow. I am wondering if it is worth putting the 6950 in my older machine while I wait.

My current machine is:
Nvidia 8800gt
AMD X2 2400
4gigabytes of Ram
MSI k9a platinum motherboard
Windows XP
I play games at 1920x1200

Or should I just wait til I get everything ? Thanks !

 

[toyota]

I assume that is supposed to be a 4200 X2. and you might as well wait as that cpu is not going to let you get much more than the 8800gt can do anyway. a 4200 X2 does not even meet the requirements to play the type of games a 6950 would be usfeul for.

 

[liddabit]

I assume that is supposed to be a 4200 X2. and you might as well wait as that cpu is not going to let you get much more than the 8800gt can do anyway. a 4200 X2 does not even meet the requirements to play the type of games a 6950 would be usfeul for.

oh woops, I forgot the 64 too. It says AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200 in the computer properties.

 

[ronss]

I agree, putting the 6950 in such old technology does not accomplish much....i also just bought a 6950, msi frozr II, yesterday, and its a great card....was usiing the 6970, but was getting artifacts in blu ray...it as a asus, and then got the msi 6870, artifacts with that too.. returned both ..and got the 6950...plays blu rays nicely

 

[cusideabelincoln]

Only worth it if you have absolutely nothing else to do at all.

 

[jacktesterson]

Processor isn't powerful enough to push it to be fair.

a 4670 is a good card for your CPU.

 

[hdfxst]

I had an x2 240 @ 3750 with a single 5850 and it was holding it back,in some games i saw no increase at all over my 4830