card for doom3?

[atwifa]

i'm playing doom 3 with radeon 8500 aiw, and it does'nt keep up very well.
thinking of upgrading to a 9800 pro but money is tight - so would a 9700 pro
be sufficient? tia

 

[atwifa]

sorry forgot to mention that rest of the system

athlon xp1700+
512 sdr
40gb hdd

 

[Servo]

i'm playing doom 3 with radeon 8500 aiw, and it does'nt keep up very well.
thinking of upgrading to a 9800 pro but money is tight - so would a 9700 pro
be sufficient? tia

I'm playing with a 9600 and it works beautifully.

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[Sleepy]

sorry forgot to mention that rest of the system

athlon xp1700+
512 sdr
40gb hdd

playing on a 9700 non-pro with XP2400 and 512 ddr
at 800x600 medium settings just fine.

 

[JD]

I think your system may still bog on Doom 3 sometimes even with a 9800 pro,
due to your CPU. But if you look at benchmarks between the 9700 and 9800
there is only a few percentage increase in framerate so I'd personally go
with the 9700 depending on the price difference. I picked up a used genuine
ATI 9700 pro for $160 Canadian, compared to a new MSI 9800 pro that goes for
$320 so I saved a lot of dough there for very little change in performance.

 

[GTX_SlotCar]

With your cpu you'll be looking for each fps you can get, so I'd say go with
the 9800Pro. The speeds between the 2 cards isn't that great in general, but
the 9800 edges away a bit when really stressed, and Doom3 will stress a
video card. That being said, if you're just looking for a Doom3 card, until
ATI gets better OpenGL drivers, an nVidia card might be better for you.

 

[atwifa]

thanks for the input guys

 

[Conor]

sorry forgot to mention that rest of the system

athlon xp1700+
512 sdr
40gb hdd

Your graphics isn't the main problem. The SDR RAM and CPU is.

 

[Daniel Czajko]

In my opinion, 9700 pro and your current CPU isn't sufficient enough.
Unless you CAN stand playing games at a low resolution and low detail level.
Shelf the game until you can afford a more aggressive upgrade, or current
aggressive hardware become cheaper