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Radeon 9600 with a 250w PSU?

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I'm looking to upgrade my old Geforce 4 MX420 on my Dell Dimension 4500. I found this Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro on Newegg that looked great for me, as it's inexpensive and I don't want to put much more money into this computer as I will soon be building a new one. The only problem I saw with it is that I'm not sure my stock 250w PSU will be able to handle it. I've read many places with people asking similar questions and mostly I've found positive answers but I just want to consult with you guys to be sure there will be no problems.
Here are my other specs:
  1. Intel P4 2.40ghz
    

  2. 768MB PC2100 RAM (256+512)
    

  3. 2 IDE HDs (40GB, 250GB)
    

  4. DVD-ROM, DVD-RW drives
    

  5. Dell 1504FP Monitor
    

  6. Creative SB Live Value Sound Card
    

  7. nVidia Geforce 4 MX 420

I'd appreciate any help you guys can give me. (Other than "buy a new PSU" :) )

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The 9600 Pro operates entirely off the AGP controller's connection and requires no external connector. I used one for quite a while, wasn't a great card by any means (even for it's time) but it can do a decent overclock and since it has no external connector it's almost impossible to fry.
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wasn't it only possible to take it to 9800SE or Pro levels, The XT version was out of reach for the 9600.

First try the soft mod to see if you can unlock it, then a bios flash will unlock it for good. If it's not stable with the soft mod, the bios flash will not help.

I've never heard of anyone modding a 9600Pro to a 9800XT. I've never heard of anyone modding a 9600 anything to a 9800 anything. IIRC it isn't physically possible. I think you're thinking of people modding a 9800Pros to an XTs.

I'd say it would be plenty worth it, and much cheaper then a whole new computer. Sure it isn't going to play some of the more recent games, but it can run things like Half-Life 2, Doom 3, Counter-Strike: Source and Command and Conquer 3.
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rammedstein said:
depending on what one you get you may even be able to convert it to an 9800xt


Not possible.

the only succesful mod of an R9600 to R9800 was by me very early on, and while it's really easy, it's not very effective.

I'll recreate it here;

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4611/r9600prochipmodedal5.png
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6126/r9600promodpz0.jpg

:whistle: 

It was a great chip for what it was built for and a fantastic overclocker at the time, but there was no mod opportunity for the R9600 to make it an R9800 other than the pencil/marker/photochop method above.

Gravemind123 said:
I'd say it would be plenty worth it, and much cheaper then a whole new computer. Sure it isn't going to play some of the more recent games, but it can run things like Half-Life 2, Doom 3, Counter-Strike: Source and Command and Conquer 3.


Hell yea, hardware transform and lighting is going to rock the OP's world.

turboflame said:
Hell yea, hardware transform and lighting is going to rock the OP's world.


All the Geforces have hardware T&L :-) It's why the brand was introduced. It was a big improvement over the TNTs.

On another note... how is C&C3 in the same category as Doom3 and HL2? :-P

cpburns said:
All the Geforces have hardware T&L :-) It's why the brand was introduced. It was a big improvement over the TNTs.

On another note... how is C&C3 in the same category as Doom3 and HL2? :-P


Really? i had a Geforce MX4000 and it didn't have T&L, could that be the only exception?

EDIT: nevermind, idk what I'm talking about, I got T&L confused with pixel shaders,
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