New Graphics Card

[liamk13490]

Which of these two would be a better choice.

A) Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 GTO 256MB GDDR3 TV Out/DVI (AGP)

B) Sapphire X1600 Pro 512MB DDR2 AVIVO -TV Out/DVI (AGP)

Or any other AGP cards.

 

[Anon_F]

Whats the difference in the price?

 

[mudfrog]

I would say the X1600 would be the better one as it's the newer range

Not much difference on price I don't think.

Cheers,

Rich

 

[liamk13490]

The X800 is £122

The x1600 is £111

Im stuck on which one to get.

 

[mudfrog]

Well I've got the X800 gto and it's a great card.
But if I was you then I would probably get the X1600 as it wasn't available when I bought mine.
And it's cheaper

 

[liamk13490]

I have decided to buy the x1600 .

 

[mudfrog]

Good man
Let us know what you think of it once you've got it installed

 

[liamk13490]

Hopefully will arrive tomorrow!
I have a few concerns about my PSU
and if the card is too bulky.

 

[mudfrog]

Hopefully will arrive tomorrow!
I have a few concerns about my PSU
and if the card is too bulky.

What concerns?
What size psu have you got?

 

[liamk13490]

Its a 350W.

 

[mudfrog]

What else have you got in your machine?

Should be fine though

But yeah more power is always handy to have

 

[Me__2001]

the most important part about the PSU is what make is it ? and whats the rest of your system spec ?

 

[liamk13490]

I have AMD Athlon 3000+
512 MB Ram
120 GB HDD

 

[PotGuy]

You should have got the x800gto2

 

[crazylegs]

Yeah i would go with that too....the x800GTo2 is the better card...

 

[liamk13490]

I don't think it comes AGP.

 

[mudfrog]

They did do an AGP version, but good luck trying to find one

 

[liamk13490]

It didnt arrive today so they said it definetly willb tomorrow.

 

[liamk13490]

I have now installed and all I can say is wow, its so much better than my old 5600.
Im currently playing doom 3 and it plays great!!

 

[mudfrog]

Great stuff glad your pleased with it