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ATI just started selling X700 Pros with AGP.
"Larry Roberts" <skin-e@juno.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:44:46 GMT, "tod" <no_spam_i@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>>I'm looking to replace my ATI 9600 Pro (AGP) with something a little
>>newer.
>>I was going to go ATI X700 Pro, but I would like to know
>>if there would be any advantages to getting a NVIDIA 6600GT?
>>I play mostly RTS and a few RPG games, no first person shooters.
>>
>
>
> I was just wondering the same thing. I'm on a strict budget,
> and trying to build myself a new Athlon64 Socket 939 system. I'm
> having to buy a piece, or two of hardware once a month. So I'm trying
> to get the best deal possible.
> Before deciding to build up a new A64 PC, I had opted to
> upgrade my Athlon XP 3000+ system with an extra 512MB RAM (total 1
> GB), and a new 6600GT AGP. For what I spent, I should have stuck with
> my GF4 Ti4400 for now, and put that money towards the A64 build.
> However, the 6600GT was a nice boost, even though it is bound by the
> CPU.
> I was checking Newegg out, and seen that the X700Pro was
> priced $25.00 less than the 6600GT PCI-E. I went looking for
> benchmarks, and seen that the X700Pro scores a little less than the
> 6600GT in most games. Except in the case of HL2, where it scored about
> the same, or even a little more. However Doom3 favored the 6600GT
> quite a bit.
> Anywho, it will be around Christmas, or even after before I'm
> ready to purchase a card, so I'm gona wait, and see what comes out.
> Hopefully Nvidia's 7xxx series mid-range cards will come out maybe,
> and cause the prices of the 6600GT, and 6800 to drop even more.
> You said you where wanting to upgrade a Radeon 9600 Pro AGP
> with a 6600GT, or X700 Pro. As far as I know, the X700 Pro comes in
> PCI-E only. Only one of the Nvidia 6xxx, or a faster Radeon 9xxx would
> be an upgrade for you, unless you are upgrading to a PCI-E system as
> well.