Graphics Card advice please??

[Arnold Rimmer]

Hi
At the moment I'm using an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256Mb (AGP). And I'm thinking of buying a Radeon X1950 Pro 512Mb. Is this a much better card as it's less than half the price I paid for the 9800.
Thanks for any advice.
Arnie

 

[itsme]

Hi
At the moment I'm using an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256Mb (AGP). And I'm thinking of buying a Radeon X1950 Pro 512Mb. Is this a much better card as it's less than half the price I paid for the 9800.
Thanks for any advice.
Arnie

Read the reviews here

You have a good one have you a problem with it?



http://www.reviewcentre.com/review150787.html

And here

http://www.diamondmm.com/X1950PRO512AGP.php

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

Cheers! ItsMe. No problem, everything running fine. Just wandered if I would notice any improvement by switching to the X1950. Thanks for the reviews - I'll read them. Is there a direct comparison site anywhere maybe for viewing their performance bars side by side?
Thanks
Arnie

 

[Adywebb]

Is there a direct comparison site anywhere maybe for viewing their performance bars side by side?
Thanks
Arnie

Have you tried googling to see?

 

[V_R]

Whats the rest of your spec?

Providing the rest of your pc is not too slow the 1950 will blow the 9800 out of the water.

 

[itsme]

Go here and compare>>http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...atID=1833&subcat_uid=1833&intProductId=126774

 

[PotGuy]

If my memory serves correctly the 1950s all recommend at least a 450W psu and a 6 pin connector. The adaptor will likely come in the package, but if your psu is not powerful enough then it is a no go.

What is your psu?

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

Good point about the machine spec. It's an Athlon 2800 (2.08Mhz I think), 1.5Gb RAM, I'll check out the PS for the 450w rating and I don't know what the Motherboard is. Is that crucial too or is the CPU enough?

Thanks for everybody's help.

Arnie.

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

The full spec is Athlon 2800, 1.5Gb RAM, motherboard is Gigabyte Technology K7 Triton nForce2. The PSU is only 350w, so if I upgrade that to 450w and based on the above spec PC is the X1950 a better bet?

Thanks

Arnie.

 

[PotGuy]

Indeed it will. In fact it will blast your 9800 out the water, and then deficate on it.

Are you comfortable changing PSUs?

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

Good News PotGuy! Thank you.

Yes, I've change one before and didn't have any problems, so I don't thnk it'll be a problem. Can't stuff any more RAM in though. I've got 4 slots with 512 in each but only 3 are recognised. All the chips are OK as I've swapped them round and they all register independently. I think this is something due to the motherboard is it? Too old to recognise 2Gb - is that right?

Cheers!

Arnie

 

[PotGuy]

I believe it is a 3gb limit, not 1.5gb, but I have no experience with nforce 2s so I can't say any more.