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Worth it to upgrade from a 9700 pro this generation?

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gbryant

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Lo, I upgraded to a 9700 pro only a few months ago (from a Geforce 4 that served me pretty well for a long time), but I recently bought a 19" LCD monitor (the bloody fantastic Hyundai L90d+) that has my card struggling to run at a 1280X1024 resolution. I can't decide whether to upgrade now or poke along with this card and wait for the new cards to arrive and drive down prices. I am very happy with ATI's much better image quality and video playback over my old Geforce but it looks like ATI pretty much lost this round in the mid-range video card wars, so if I was going to upgrade it'd be one of the $150-200 Nvidia AGP cards (6600 GT?). Whaddya guys think?

btw, my case is fairly old and has a 300w PSU, is this gonna be a problem for the spiffier newer video cards?
 
I don't think it would really be worth it to move from a 9700 Pro to a 6600GT. I'd probably just wait for the new generation in that case, and hope to find a 6800-series card on the cheap (not sure how realistic that is though).
 
Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
I don't think it would really be worth it to move from a 9700 Pro to a 6600GT. I'd probably just wait for the new generation in that case, and hope to find a 6800-series card on the cheap (not sure how realistic that is though).
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Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Pay $200 for a 10-20% boost and while AGP is rapidly phased out? Don't even bother.
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I thought the same thing, i'm keeping my 9700 pro until I move to a PCI-E system.
 
It ain't worth moving to a 6600GT, like I did. It ain't worth it. Save your beans for another day. Wait till next gen mainstream cards come out. Especially with a crappy CPU like mine a 2700+ AXP. This will limit your performance. Doom3 the card is supposed to perform at 1280x1024 with 58fps, but I can't play at 1280x1024, too slow a framerate.

Benchmarks done well, will be lower, I don't think the geforce offers comparable IQ to the 9700Pro, so to get the same IQ, it would lose some boost in framerates approximately up to 34%.

More info about it http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1535724&enterthread=y.
 
going to the 6600 gt isnt going to be an enormous upgrade or anything, but ateast it will be new and exciting! If you do decide to do the upgrade I'd be willing to take the 9700 off of your hands. I think you should look for a 6800 gt or x800 series to get a good performance increase.
 
The 9700 Pro was the first super GPU, 2yrs ago and a breakthough product. It will serve you well for quite some time. Sure there are faster, but for what you have to pay it is not worth the trouble.
 
i went from a 9800 pro to a 6800 nu, It was worth it in my opinion after selling the 9800, games run smoother with AA and AF
 
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