Upgrade Question

[Mark D. Miller]

I currently have a 9500 pro 128 MB card in my system (P4 3.0, 1 gig PC3200
on an Intel 875PBZ motherboard). All is running well, but I just have the
feeling that a video card upgrade would help system performance quite a bit.
I do play some games. I'm playing Medal of Honor Pacific Assault at the
moment and it seems to run OK. I'm not one to check frame rates. I'm also
starting to do a fair amount of video editing and DVD authoring. I was
looking at the X700 Pro. What does the group think? Obviously it's an AGP
system.
Thanks in advance
Mark Miller

 

[Thomas]

I currently have a 9500 pro 128 MB card in my system (P4 3.0, 1 gig
PC3200 on an Intel 875PBZ motherboard). All is running well, but I
just have the feeling that a video card upgrade would help system
performance quite a bit. I do play some games. I'm playing Medal of
Honor Pacific Assault at the moment and it seems to run OK. I'm not
one to check frame rates. I'm also starting to do a fair amount of
video editing and DVD authoring. I was looking at the X700 Pro. What
does the group think? Obviously it's an AGP system.

X700Pro is PCI-E and not an upgrade for the 9500Pro. Look for an X800Pro /
X800XL or you wont notice the difference...

 

[Glitch]

X700Pro is PCI-E and not an upgrade for the 9500Pro. Look for an X800Pro /
X800XL or you wont notice the difference...

Correct BUT I think I saw some AGP X700Pro(could be that I'm mistaken).
I have almost the same system as you (@ Mark ) : P4 2.8, 1GB
DDR400,9700Pro all set up on a Gigabyte 8I875Ultra (875P).
As Thomas said a real upgrade to your system would be an X800XL as that
is roughly about 2x 9700/9800Pro.(almost 3x9500pro)
There also many XL models with VIVO and 2xDVI-I,just try not to go for
the ASUS one(lower clocks).

 

[glamart]

X700Pro is PCI-E and not an upgrade for the 9500Pro. Look for an
X800Pro / X800XL or you wont notice the difference...

I have an X700Pro AGP that I replaced a 9600XT with. The 9600XT did
an Aquamark of about 36K. The X700Pro does about 50K+. The system is
a P4-3.2ghz cpu with 1gb ram. The reason that I got the X700Pro is
that it was $100 less expensive than an X800 AGP ($179 on BestBuy's
website).

 

[ofn01]

I currently have a 9500 pro 128 MB card in my system (P4 3.0, 1 gig PC3200
on an Intel 875PBZ motherboard). All is running well, but I just have the
feeling that a video card upgrade would help system performance quite a bit.
I do play some games. I'm playing Medal of Honor Pacific Assault at the
moment and it seems to run OK. I'm not one to check frame rates. I'm also
starting to do a fair amount of video editing and DVD authoring. I was
looking at the X700 Pro. What does the group think? Obviously it's an AGP
system.
Thanks in advance
Mark Miller

I had a 9600XT which is very similar in performance terms to a 9500 Pro.
I upgraded to a 9800 Pro and noticed that I am able to jump up *either*
a resolution *or* from medium to high detail settings in most games.
Most games perform quite a bit better, basically its about a 40%
increase which is fine for what I want to do (and I didn't want to
change my power supply).

I have the MOH pacific assault demo though and that didn't have much of
an improvement - in fact one of the least improvements of any of my
games. Doom 3, HL2, far cry and pretty much all others were really
noticable improvements. (I have heard that the pacific assault demo is
not too well coded though)

 

[Advanced Primate]

I currently have a 9500 pro 128 MB card in my system (P4 3.0, 1 gig PC3200
on an Intel 875PBZ motherboard). All is running well, but I just have the
feeling that a video card upgrade would help system performance quite a
bit. I do play some games. I'm playing Medal of Honor Pacific Assault at
the moment and it seems to run OK. I'm not one to check frame rates. I'm
also starting to do a fair amount of video editing and DVD authoring. I
was looking at the X700 Pro. What does the group think? Obviously it's an
AGP system.
Thanks in advance
Mark Miller

I just upgraded from a 9800 Pro to X800 XL AGP. It seems the X800 XL is the
most bang for your buck according to all the reviews I read last week. I
have an AMD64 3000+ and what a difference it made.

 

[Fisher]

I just upgraded from a 9800 Pro to X800 XL AGP.

Who makes that card? When I look at www.ncix.com (where I usually buy
my hardware from, as I'm in Canada) I only see that card in PCI-E from
every manufacturer at that web site.

 

[Mark D. Miller]

Thanks to all for the help. You've convinced me to go with the X800XL AGP.
Mark Miller