X800Pro VS X1300Pro

[Drew]

How does my current card (X800 Pro AGP) compare with the X1300Pro AGP? I am
looking for a replacment and would like equal or better preformance. I do
not want something lesser than what I have already. I am not looking to
spend $400-$600 on a top end video card and my mobo I do not think supports
PCI Express

The rest of my system is:
Athlon 64 FX-53
1GB
WinXP Home (but will upgrade to Vista when retail)

 

[Blair]

Try this link for comparisons,

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/131

 

[Drew]

ok, thanks. I see it has a higher clock speed but lower everything else. How
does this reflect in realworld benchmarks?

 

[James]

ok, thanks. I see it has a higher clock speed but lower everything else. How
does this reflect in realworld benchmarks?

If it helps, I have some real world experience with an X850XT and an
X1600XT.(Both PCIe)

I bought the 850XT but experienced some major heat issues. So I swapped
with a friend for an HIS X1600XT - it has an Arctic cooling fan on it,
The 1600 is slower, but not so much so that my Battlefield 2 really
suffers. I can say that given what I am seeing, going to 2 GB of RAm
would be a bigger improvement than the going back to the 850 (for
Battlefield, a RAM hungry app). I would need a much better case for the
x850 to run cool - input and output fans, or liquid cooled.

I think you can get a much better deal - I only paid 200 Canadian for
the 850xt and I have seen it recently for less. You can get an x1600
Pro for $139 US (Tigerdirect). The fastest AGP card I've seen on
tigerdirect is the nVidia 7800 GS for $269. That would be faster than
your x800.



James

 

[Frodo]

The X1300 has 4 pipelines and 128 bit memory access.
The X800 has 12 pipelines and 256 bit memory access.
An X1800 would be the cheapest card to beat the X800.
If you sell your current motherboard for an Asrock (Asus owns Asrock)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081
that comes with both a AGP & PCI-EX graphics slot you could then buy a
PCI-EX graphics card
You would already have to spend an extra $50 for AGP over PCI-EX
and the motherboard is $70, plus get to have the cash from selling the old
board.

Here is a good site for feedback on motherboards
http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/