How good/bad is a 9800pro these days?

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#1 purpleRz
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With a 2.2 Gig P4 ?
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#2 Blackfriend8
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for games not good you need much better for games these days
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#3 Gregoroth
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I'd say that would be a good match. I think putting in too powerful a card, will just bottleneck it.
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#4 purpleRz
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Well i am still living 2 years ago with hardware.....

Are there any charts that show ALL G-card benchmarks, yeah that would be a lot of cards, i know Toms hardware have charts but they dont show any of these older cards against the newer one, like the 9700pro vs some PCI-E cards...?

and is PCI-E much faster than AGP these days?

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#5 MajinFix
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as the most powerfull card for AGP is radeon HD3850 then I'd say yes AGP is much slower
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#6 swehunt
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as the most powerfull card for AGP is radeon HD3850 then I'd say yes AGP is much slowerMajinFix

Hd3850 is more than AGP can handle.

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#7 teddyrob
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How good/bad is a 9800pro these days

With a 2.2 Gig P4 ?

purpleRz

Not very good. Useless in new games.

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#8 hofuldig
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With a 2.2 Gig P4 ?purpleRz

Well a 9800Pro will play oblivion pretty good. my friend has one with a P4 at 2.4GHz and it plays pretty well

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#9 teddyrob
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and is PCI-E much faster than AGP these days?

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That isn't the factor. What the factor is that you are using a really old processor which will not cut it in todays gaming market. Say you got the 3850pro AGP the best AGP there is at the moment it is equal to the PCIe version if you had the same processor in each computer you wouldn't see much difference but in a 2.2GHz Pentium4 you are going to be bottlenecked by that processor a lot compared to a C2D CPU. Games like World in Conflict the minimum spec is about 2Ghz pentium4. Even if you put that card in your computer you be using low settings for that game.

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#10 codezer0
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For modern games, it is pretty much useless. For older games or those that don't require Shader Model 3, it's not bad. Nowadays though, you'll pretty much be restricted to 1024x768 or less for being able to play anything that's come out recently fluidly.