Radeon 9800 Pro and Mobile barton at 2.5ghz good match ??

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In article <0cepp0peisrr566stdrrtu7uked8ptfaa5@4ax.com>, The Other Guy.
says...
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> Radeon 9800 Pro and Mobile barton at 2.5ghz good match ??
>
> Iam not intending to buy a 64bit cpu untill the dual cores come out.
>
> And also iam not going to spend 700 bucks Australian on a x800 or 6800
> GT video card. All i wish to know how long do you think a 9800 pro
> would last me before i am forced to upgrade ??.
>
> I wish to run my games in atleast 1024 by 768 and with AA 4 and AF 8
> or close to that, but still get decent frame rates.
>
> I can get a 9800 Pro at 329 australian and a x800 pro is 700 dollars
> 650 cheapest if i order off the net and even then it would be closer
> to 700 with postage.
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> Is the x800 worth the extra 371 dollars, bang for buck wise ?
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>
> So do you think i should got 9800 pro ?? or x800 or 6800 GT as i
> suppose they would last longer performance wise in the long run ?
>
I'm running a Barton 2500 with Radeon 9800SE, not Pro, and I run
everything at 1280x1024 except for Doom 3 which needs the res dropping
to 1024x768 BUT as a 9800Pro is twice as fast, you'll have no issues.



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I think ill just bit the bullet and get the 6800GT, it will last me
the longest time, before ihave to upgrade, and i can have my AA and
AF.

Thanks.


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 18:46:16 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 02:02:41 +1100, The Other Guy.
><2221@1.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>Radeon 9800 Pro and Mobile barton at 2.5ghz good match ??
>>
>>Iam not intending to buy a 64bit cpu untill the dual cores come out.
>>
>>And also iam not going to spend 700 bucks Australian on a x800 or 6800
>>GT video card. All i wish to know how long do you think a 9800 pro
>>would last me before i am forced to upgrade ??.
>>
>>I wish to run my games in atleast 1024 by 768 and with AA 4 and AF 8
>>or close to that, but still get decent frame rates.
>>
>>I can get a 9800 Pro at 329 australian and a x800 pro is 700 dollars
>>650 cheapest if i order off the net and even then it would be closer
>>to 700 with postage.
>>
>>
>>Is the x800 worth the extra 371 dollars, bang for buck wise ?
>>
>>
>>So do you think i should got 9800 pro ?? or x800 or 6800 GT as i
>>suppose they would last longer performance wise in the long run ?
>>
>>Just confused, byt the way iam upgrading from a 9600 pro which has
>>served me well, right up untiill Doom 3 then it kind of showed its
>>lack of power
>
>Nothing is really worth the extra $$$, bang for buck wise,
>unless you can wait a bit for a deal on a 6600GT or 6800NU.
>Rumors around here are that they'll be dropping to around
>$200 for Black Friday sales. The 6600 also has the
>MPEG2/4/WMV decoder (& encoder?) working, while 6800 has at
>least the MPEG2, currently speculation is that 6800 may not
>ever get MPEG4/WMV working contrary to inital nVidia spec.
>
>Either way, no the x800 is definitely not worth the extra
>for a Barton CPU, unless it's REALLY important to you to run
>AA4/AF8 for as long as possilbe... towards the end of the
>card's viability you'd probably be disabling or dropping
>those settings down a few notches for better performance
>and/or replacing them again. IMO, AA4 & AF8 are a bit
>overrated though, AA2 and next higher resolution often look
>better to me.
>
>If you're into overclocking (as it would seem considering
>the Barton @ 2.5), I'd get the 6800 NU when it hits a good
>price-point/sale, then o'c it... don't know what the market
>is like for those in AU though.