The old G200 just needs to be upgraded. Basically will be using the PC for surfing and gaming (HL TFC mostly, BG II, NWN, JKII, WCIII). I'd prefer to get something under $170. ATI 8500? GF4 Ti 4200? GF4 Ti 4400? I'm leang towards the 8500 BTW.
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According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless..
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The Radeon9000Pro is despite of it's name (f*ck those marketing b*ttheads
) the successor of the Radeon7500 and still slower than the Radeon8500LE.
A cheap Gigabyte R8500 card (they run at the full 275/275MHz) would be quite a bit faster than the R9000"Pro". The only advantage I can see for the 9000Pro is the "Fullstream" technology.
The GF4 Ti4200 will be the fastest of those three cards and will maybe even have the best price/performance ratio - as long as you don't want to use anisotropic. With full anisotropic enabled, the R8500 just can't be beat.Comment
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9700 > 8500 > 9000 > 7500
How's that for ya?
8500 is nice right now. $80 online for a 64mb card that's nearly as fast as a GF4. Nice.
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But, my recommendation would be TOTALLY dependent on your chipset. Whatcha got?
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Via KT133ARC Agent
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Then I would recomend a new mobo instead!
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless...Comment
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Your $150 solution? Radeon 8500 for $80 and an MSI 745 Ultra motherboard for $60. $140 and you're a happy camper.
(I'm assuming your chip is socketed, if it's slotted then... well, you're SOL.)
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I'm not aware of any KT133A Slot A boards. It would be nice to know if such a beast exists.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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PLUS $$ for new memory too.Originally posted by Gurm
Your $150 solution? Radeon 8500 for $80 and an MSI 745 Ultra motherboard for $60. $140 and you're a happy camper.
(I'm assuming your chip is socketed, if it's slotted then... well, you're SOL.)
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Then you could still get the ECS 735-based board. No real OCing, but it would have both kinds of RAM slots.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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Yup. And it's even cheaper.
Although... it's only about $80 for new memory.
So it'd put you $50 over budget. But think of the speed boosts!
Oh, alright. Let's stick to your original budget.
Get an MSI 735 board. Bam, you're done.
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I recommend a nice PCI Cirrus Logic 5115 1mb video card! It doesn't do OpenGL, Direct3D or 1024x768 @16bit colors!
It's everything you want and at the right price! Only one left in stock! Get it while it lasts, only 4 Yen!Titanium is the new bling!
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How big speed bost are we talking about?
Going from a KT133A mobo to SIS745?
(Same CPU and same amount of mem)If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
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So I've heard estimates of 10-20% for going from SDR to DDR.
Then there's the extra PCI bandwidth.
And the removal of VIA headaches: priceless.Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.Comment
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