x1300 AGP

[WhiteHawk]

I was considering buying a Gecube x1300 512mb DDR2 AGP card, but The only 2 motherboards I have spare are an abit kv7 and a gigabyte K7N, I was wondering if anyone knows whether the card will run on either of these boards.

It must also be noted that at present I certainly don't have the money to buy a new motherboard, also will I need to upgrade my PSU as its pretty feeble at 300w running a DVD, CDRW, an 80mm Case Fan and 80mm CPU fan and a 40mm Northbridge, 2 IDE harddrives and a floppy.

I would also like to know whether it would make enough of a differance over my 9800 pro to warrent spending £70.

Thanks in advance,
WhiteHawk

 

[Scougs]

I don't think I have seen any benchmarks that compare the two cards but I wouldn't expect to see any improvement from your 9800Pro to an X1300.

If I were to take a guess I would expect the X1300 to be slower and therefore wouldn't be worth any investment. My advice is for you to save your money and stick with the 9800Pro.

Edit: Fixed a typo

 

[prozac26]

Getting a X1300 will most likely be a downgrade for you. I suggest you stick with your 9800.

 

[WhiteHawk]

well, thanks everyone. My system sepc is as follows:

Abit KV7 or a Gigabyte K7N
AMD 2800+
1gb DDR 266
9800 pro

can anyone recomend an upgrade within the < £100 price bracket?
any help would be aprreciated, cheers.

 

[prozac26]

X800GTO is a very good card. Should fit your budget, and be an actual upgrade from a 9800.

 

[WhiteHawk]

I did have a look at the x800 GTO but its right at the end of my price bracket and the only ones I can afford are 128mb, which is even less than my 9800.

If only I had a PCI -Express slot, but alas any further help and/or suggestions would be appreciated, and where to get them cheaply in case I'm looking in the wrong places. :S

Regards, whitehawk.

 

[WhiteHawk]

had another good look this time, found this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102530R
any thoughts is t orth getting over the 9800? seems better, but I'm not so much a man in the know anymore.

 

[Scougs]

had another good look this time, found this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102530R
any thoughts is t orth getting over the 9800? seems better, but I'm not so much a man in the know anymore.

Yes!
I used to have a 9800Pro 128MB and I upgraded to the card you linked above about 6 months ago. It significantly increased my performance. After doing some reasearch, I also found out that I could unlock 4 pixel pipelines by flashing the bios. I believe that an X800GTO is an excelant way to add a little life to an older AGP system. Once unlocked and slightly overclocked, the GTO almost doubled my 3DMark05 score.

 

[ikaz]

FYI,

On a low end card (which the 1300 is) memory amount means nothing !. I'm almost 99% sure your 9800pro is much faster than the 1300 from what I remember a 9800pro is just as fast as 1600pro. Remember the 9800 series was the high end card of yester years. The is a low end card of today again don't be overly concerned with memory size unless you are buying the top end card of the current generation and even then you may only see a small increase in FPS.

The best suggestion would be to buy the x800gto card listed above or wait until you can save more money. Better to wait then waiste money.

oh check out this http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html to get an idea of how the 1300 will perform. Also note they don't have 512 model listed but again memory size mean just about nothing in the low end.