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X1650 Pro (agp) vs 7900 gs oc (pciex16)

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Hi, I bought a new motherboard recently, and it supports agp and pciex (It's the asrock dualcore sata2 one)
and I was wondering something about an upgrade possibility. I have the opportunity to purchase a new 7900 gs oc for only $60, and I'm curious to know if it would be a noticeable upgrade. I currently play cod4 and counterstrike, and I've tried ut3 previously. I play on a 19" monitor @ 1440x900 native resolution.
These are my system specs

Proc - E2160 1.8ghz (oc'd stable @ 2.66)
PSU - 450W
RAM - 2gigs DDR2 667
GPU - X1650 Pro 512mb DDR3
CPU cooler - COOLER MASTER RR-CCH-L9U1-GP 92mm Hyper TX2 CPU Cooler
Fans - 1x120mm 2x 80mm
Case - Xblade Midtower

I haven't tried cod4 with my new system yet, since I have to reinstall it because of the reformat (ugh) so I don't know how much of a performance boost I'll get from that. I usually though, will all settings off, get around 50-70 fps on max res. I'd love to be able to turn on some eye candy, since I go to lan's and people are pretty much rated on their rigs. Thanks for your help, and anything will help, suggestions, possible alternatives, $60 is pretty much all I have to work with though.

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Yes its a noticable improvement. here is toms own chart to compare the two http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Gami [...] 9-8.html#.
Mactronix


Message edited by mactronix on 04-11-2008 at 02:15:37 PM
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It's an upgrade for older games, but not a good upgrade for COD4 and UT3 as the GF7's are pretty lousy in those and some new games. For those games, you are alot better off buying a new $60 after rebate HD2600XT. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] ion=2600xt

BTW, sorry to say no $60 car will turn heads at a LAN. A $100+ 8800GS or 9600GT would be more respectable visually at double the performance.

Have a look before buying a 7900GS:
http://www.legionhardware.com/docu [...] id=693&p=5
http://www.anandtech.com:80/video/ [...] i=3128&p=4


Message edited by pauldh on 04-11-2008 at 02:19:06 PM
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How about this, I found a deal at newegg with a new evga 8800gts 320 for $110 after mail in rebate, would that be a good idea, save up for that? I've seen plenty on that, and was already looking into it.

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Honestly, I have that card and it' nice but it's not better than the 8800GS and 9600GT. I think they would trade blows depending on the game and settings but I'm about to start testing that to find out. But yeah, for this price range you are making a monster step above the 7900GS or HD2600XT.

The 320MB GTS may dissappear too if you aren't buying soon. So add this to your list to keep an eye on, and also consider the 9600GT one pops upr for $110 again. It's a great time to buy a $100-120 card. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130332


Message edited by pauldh on 04-11-2008 at 02:43:02 PM
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okay, which leads to another question. Both the 8800gs and the 8800gts (320) are around the same price range, I'm interested in which one is better, power-hunger wise and heat, and of course, power. I'm looking to try to play cod4 with most things on, AA and AF aren't extremely important. Depth of field and specular map would be awesome, but on my current system the fps drops to around 20-30 with those on. I'd love some more opinions, thanks again

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Seanydude678 wrote :

okay, which leads to another question. Both the 8800gs and the 8800gts (320) are around the same price range, I'm interested in which one is better, power-hunger wise and heat, and of course, power. I'm looking to try to play cod4 with most things on, AA and AF aren't extremely important. Depth of field and specular map would be awesome, but on my current system the fps drops to around 20-30 with those on. I'd love some more opinions, thanks again



Depth of field is what AF does.
I would think the 8800GS would be fine its newer tec so should be more power efficient.
Mactronix

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