9250 to a X1600

[onoma]

Worth it? Currently playing Alien vs predator 2. Apparently the way they designed this game is who ever has the most top of the line comp in the server sucks in the most juice causeing everyone to lag lol. Which is sad but true. Need somthing that can handle some major fps . Not so much high end graphics just be able to keep up with everyone else. About to upgrade to 1.5 gigs of ram tomorrow as well. So is it worth the upgrade is there anything in the same price range that is better?

 

[forsayken]

The difference will be like night and day. The 9250 is a really really terrible card that system retailers throw in their systems just so it works. However, make sure you can install the x1600. I presume you have an AGP system. Just make sure to get the AGP version. I would also presume you have some sort of decent processor (2ghz+). I don't think you'll have problems running AVP2. The x1600 will allow you to play any game currently on the market (BF2, HL2, Prey, COD2, GRAW, Quake 4, CS:S)

Another possible video card is the Geforce 7600. I just don't know if an AGP version exists (if you are actually on an AGP slot). Just make sure you know what slot you have on your motherboard.

 

[prozac26]

Very nice upgrade, you'll notice quite a big difference.

 

[onoma]

The difference will be like night and day. The 9250 is a really really terrible card that system retailers throw in their systems just so it works. However, make sure you can install the x1600. I presume you have an AGP system. Just make sure to get the AGP version. I would also presume you have some sort of decent processor (2ghz+). I don't think you'll have problems running AVP2. The x1600 will allow you to play any game currently on the market (BF2, HL2, Prey, COD2, GRAW, Quake 4, CS:S)

Another possible video card is the Geforce 7600. I just don't know if an AGP version exists (if you are actually on an AGP slot). Just make sure you know what slot you have on your motherboard.

Yeah i have an agp slot and a pci slot lol. 2.4 ghz processor. I actaully already play bf2 hl2 cod2 and cs:s on the 9250 and have no issues but I know it dosn't look as good as it could.

 

[forsayken]

It's PCI Express you need for most new video cards. There are very few motherboards with both PCI-X and AGP slots.

 

[ikaz]

unless you are realy "hung" up on the 3.0 support in the x1600 (or the inproved video driver support) I would actualy save your money and get something from the x800/x850 series check out what ATI has on sale referb however they carry full product warrenty.

http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=2984012

http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=2699206

Both card will stop a x1600 in games.

 

[onoma]

unless you are realy "hung" up on the 3.0 support in the x1600 (or the inproved video driver support) I would actualy save your money and get something from the x800/x850 series check out what ATI has on sale referb however they carry full product warrenty.

http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=2984012

http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=2699206

Both card will stop a x1600 in games.

I took your advice orderd an x800 pro instead of the 1600

 

[Gary_Busey]

unless you are realy "hung" up on the 3.0 support in the x1600 (or the inproved video driver support) I would actualy save your money and get something from the x800/x850 series check out what ATI has on sale referb however they carry full product warrenty.

http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=2984012

http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=2699206

Both card will stop a x1600 in games.

I took your advice orderd an x800 pro instead of the 1600
I agree, that's probably the best option.

 

[MrCommunistGen]

It's PCI Express you need for most new video cards. There are very few motherboards with both PCI-X and AGP slots.

This is a common mistake, but it bugs me. The abbreviation for PCI Express is PCI-E, not PCI-X. PCI-X is something completely different, and is usually only found in the server market for SCSI RAID cards, Fiber channel cards, dual gigabit ethernet cards, and the like.
However, your idea is sound... the OP needs to be sure to get the AGP version since the PCI-E won't work in a regular PCI slot (or a PCI-X for that matter).

-mcg

 

[obagong]

I have read the reviews and I think that the old x7-800 were basically slagged off and not that fast. I have the option of spending £250 on the far superior GS 7800 or £75 on a 256MB x1600 or £95 on a 512 MB. My system is an asus a7a 266dual running now 2x 1700+ cpus 2 GB RAM ECC 266MHZ DDR 4x AGP. I also run a 9250 128MB because it was cheap when I bought it but it was better than the 7000 series 32MB all in wonder that I had. Al I want to know is before I spend another £1000 plus on the following set up am I better off not bothering with 512MB I have 1 day to alter this as I have ordered the 256MB card. New system will be. Asus intel 775express workstation PCI-X system cabable of new dual core duo systems and PCI-E crossfire . By the way I also run a 3ware raid 5 IDE controller card that can run at 180 MB/s (on the new system 360MB/s) and if I bought a new card with raptors could run 720 MB/s to 1080MB/s if I had 16 of them anyway. Don't wish to bragg but this does speed up games and load up time os quite well. Oh Win2k for now don't believe in fixing that which aint broke. As far as broke is that is also run linux suse 10 winex seems to work okay most games for me.