which video card?

[FR&CR]

which video card would suit these systems best{alot of gaming} the 128mb
radeon 9600pro or xt or 128mb geforce fx5900se? there is only a $30
difference between the two cards.
overclocking is not a big concern.

CPU: AMD XP 2200+
Motherboard:MSI (KM4M-L) 3 PCI / 1 - 8x AGP / 2 DDR 333
Memory: PC2700 256mb DDR 333
Hard Drive: 40GB Maxtor (7200 RPM)
Optical: 52x / 32x / 52x CD-RW


CPU: AMD XP 2200+
Motherboard: MSI (K7N2GM-L) NForce2 IGP (1-8x AGP / 3 PCI / 2 DDR / USB 2.0)
Memory: PC3200 256mb DDR 400
Hard Drive: 80GB Maxtor (7200 RPM)
Optical: 52x / 32x / 52x CD-RW

 

[MheAd]

In both cases I think that fx5900 would do it just fine. If you have more
money, I would go for Radeon 9800PRO. They've become quite cheap these days.
But whatever you do, you should seriously consider upgrading your system RAM
to with at least 512MB extra RAM.

 

[Martin Francis]

which video card would suit these systems best{alot of gaming} the 128mb
radeon 9600pro or xt or 128mb geforce fx5900se? there is only a $30
difference between the two cards.
overclocking is not a big concern.

I'm currently bidding on a Radeon 9700 on eB*y... should cost less than any
of them

See if you can find one, apparently it's not much slower than a 9800 and
should kick a 9600 pro's backside. Check out the benchmarks at
www.tomshardware.com

 

[Ben Pope]

which video card would suit these systems best{alot of gaming} the 128mb
radeon 9600pro or xt or 128mb geforce fx5900se? there is only a $30
difference between the two cards.
overclocking is not a big concern.

CPU: AMD XP 2200+
Motherboard:MSI (KM4M-L) 3 PCI / 1 - 8x AGP / 2 DDR 333
Memory: PC2700 256mb DDR 333
Hard Drive: 40GB Maxtor (7200 RPM)
Optical: 52x / 32x / 52x CD-RW


CPU: AMD XP 2200+
Motherboard: MSI (K7N2GM-L) NForce2 IGP (1-8x AGP / 3 PCI / 2 DDR / USB
2.0) Memory: PC3200 256mb DDR 400
Hard Drive: 80GB Maxtor (7200 RPM)
Optical: 52x / 32x / 52x CD-RW

If you can find a 9800, you'd be better off.

Just be careful not to get one of the 128bit 9800s floating about as they
are essentially a 9800se (Dunno who is making them, but it's a blatant con).

Ben

 

[Augustus]

I'm currently bidding on a Radeon 9700 on eB*y... should cost less than
any

of them

See if you can find one, apparently it's not much slower than a 9800 and
should kick a 9600 pro's backside. Check out the benchmarks at
www.tomshardware.com

Agreed. A 9700 Pro is only 10% less the performance of the 9800 Pro. The
trick is to finding one at a decent price. I've been checking Ebay over the
last few days and invariably they close at around $150 -$160US with $15
shipping or so. So $165-$175 for a used 9700 Pro vs $200 or so for a new
9800 Pro. Hard to decide. There was one that went for $132 a couple of days
ago.

 

[Rusty]

Newegg.com has overclockable (open 4 more pipelines turns it into a 9800pro)
new 9800se at 150 right now. Item # N82E16814131236

happy hunting

RS

 

[Martin Francis]

Agreed. A 9700 Pro is only 10% less the performance of the 9800 Pro. The
trick is to finding one at a decent price. I've been checking Ebay over the
last few days and invariably they close at around $150 -$160US with $15
shipping or so. So $165-$175 for a used 9700 Pro vs $200 or so for a new
9800 Pro. Hard to decide. There was one that went for $132 a couple of days
ago.

Am I right in thinking the non-Pro 9700 is just a short hop, skip and jump
from a Pro and easily overclocked into one?

 

[wired and confused]

9800 pro ebay woohoo I picked up today for 155

Newegg.com has overclockable (open 4 more pipelines turns it into a 9800pro)
new 9800se at 150 right now. Item # N82E16814131236

happy hunting

RS

 

[K-Gun]

I have one for sale for $99 excluding S/H

9800 pro ebay woohoo I picked up today for 155