FX 5950

Forget the rest of the equation, FX5950 is a barely capable D9 PS2.0A card, with ok abilities, but with an architecture that wasn't well adopted for the M$ DX9 implementation, especially when up against a faster FP24 competitor.

The Xbox is a purpose made chips with features above the DX9 SM3.0 spec in most cases, but also below the DX10 spec in most others as well, but also has the advantage of a Tesselator.

Rendering power wise the Xenos (X360 GPU) would be many multiples more powerful than an FX5950 or any GPU of it's era.

Some of the best info on each architecture;

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/4/

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/74/

They are very different in their architecture, and nowhere near each other.

I would be like comparing your FX5950 to an X1900 or GF8800 gpu, they just aren't in the same league.

Thanks both of you for your replies its been very helpful. I didn't mention in my original post that I have recently purchased an XBOX 360 and this now sits alongside my PC.

I play few games these days but I have a couple of friends who I play co-op each week with and we had just about run out of good pc co-op games to play. As such and due to the fall in price we decided to all get xbox 360's a month ago and have moved our co-op sessions to it.

Typically, within a week of buying mine, a mod for Combat Flight Simulator 3 called Over Flanders Field Phase 3 was released which I definitely want to play on the PC.

I don't want to buy or build a new PC but I would like to enhance the spec of my existing machine. I thought an extra 2GB RAM DDR2 and a new budget graphics card might give me existing machine quite a boost for a relatively small outlay.

I'd thought of something in the Geforce 8xxxx series or maybe the new HIS RADEON HD4830?

Do you have any further advice on this or on increasing the spec of my existing machine.? I built my existing one but have never done any overclocking on it so the processor is a P4 2.8ghz.

Thanks