So I'm gonna upgrade my brothers PC for his Birthday, nothing too spectacular, but good enough to run CoD4, and some other recent games, right now he has a Pentium IIII 3.0Ghz (Or 3.2, I can't remember) and a radeon 9600pro. So I decided to take up newegg's $70 radeon 2600 pro, according to the reviews it plays bioshock, and sometimes crysis. Anyways, I was wondering if his CPU would horribly bottleneck the GPU. Would it be able to play... Say, Bioshock at least?
It would be better but as long as you wont be having this as a long term thing or obviously expect to play newer games well. Also it is not IIII but either IV or 4 lol.
I dont know ati real well... But this card here has a 30$ mail in rebate and would be 64$ after it. i just ordered one and from what i hear there a beast for the price. I know it play bioshock on moddest to high settings anyways. As far as your bottleneck, i dont think it be anything to drastic. If he is willing to play at a lower resolution i think you would be fine. Thats just my opinion tho.
I dont know ati real well... But this card here has a 30$ mail in rebate and would be 64$ after it. i just ordered one and from what i hear there a beast for the price. I know it play bioshock on moddest to high settings anyways. As far as your bottleneck, i dont think it be anything to drastic. If he is willing to play at a lower resolution i think you would be fine. Thats just my opinion tho.
Personally if I didnt have alot of money I would buy that and I know alot about videocards. but I hate that 128 bit thing nvidia is notorious for that.
If you have a 9600pro though, wasnt that only AGP. I dont think they made a pci e 9600 so your options are far more limited and you may not actually be able to run bioshock. The best card for agp i think is the 7600 GS which is good enough for CoD 4 but really you may just want to try to save up for a whole new computer.
If you have a 9600pro though, wasnt that only AGP. I dont think they made a pci e 9600 so your options are far more limited and you may not actually be able to run bioshock. The best card for agp i think is the 7600 GS which is good enough for CoD 4 but really you may just want to try to save up for a whole new computer.Kurushio
the best is this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102730 but he wouldent spend that much for AGP. Should run bioshock though.
If you have a 9600pro though, wasnt that only AGP. I dont think they made a pci e 9600 so your options are far more limited and you may not actually be able to run bioshock. The best card for agp i think is the 7600 GS which is good enough for CoD 4 but really you may just want to try to save up for a whole new computer.Kurushio
Yea, never thought about that... if your stuck on agp the few decent cards out there are overpriced and not really worth it. I went though this today and ended up just buying a older 939 board and processor to get to pci express. It may not be the ideal thing to do but it will get be another 6 months until i build a new system. Can you possiple post a dxdiag file? That tell us whats in your system for sure.
[QUOTE="Kurushio"]If you have a 9600pro though, wasnt that only AGP. I dont think they made a pci e 9600 so your options are far more limited and you may not actually be able to run bioshock. The best card for agp i think is the 7600 GS which is good enough for CoD 4 but really you may just want to try to save up for a whole new computer.dudy80
Yea, never thought about that... if your stuck on agp the few decent cards out there are overpriced and not really worth it. I went though this today and ended up just buying a older 939 board and processor to get to pci express. It may not be the ideal thing to do but it will get be another 6 months until i build a new system. Can you possiple post a dxdiag file? That tell us whats in your system for sure.
I believe the hd 3850 AGP is worth its price given it almost keeps up with the pci-e version and you dont have to do a system overhaul to play current games. BUT with great gain comes great loss.. its expensive as he11.
[QUOTE="Kurushio"]If you have a 9600pro though, wasnt that only AGP. I dont think they made a pci e 9600 so your options are far more limited and you may not actually be able to run bioshock. The best card for agp i think is the 7600 GS which is good enough for CoD 4 but really you may just want to try to save up for a whole new computer.TrooperManaic
Yea, never thought about that... if your stuck on agp the few decent cards out there are overpriced and not really worth it. I went though this today and ended up just buying a older 939 board and processor to get to pci express. It may not be the ideal thing to do but it will get be another 6 months until i build a new system. Can you possiple post a dxdiag file? That tell us whats in your system for sure.
I believe the hd 3850 AGP is worth its price given it almost keeps up with the pci-e version and you dont have to do a system overhaul to play current games. BUT with great gain comes great loss.. its expensive as he11.
Yea, that cards not too bad, but if what some of the reviews say the current drivers dont work and sapphire dont update them so it may be better to go with this one for the few extra bucks. Dont know how true it is about the drivers though.
My friend has the 76GS for AGP and is isnt too bad a card but the price is still really expensive compared to a pci e card that for the same money is far better. Still its a decent mid range for AGP and can run CoD 4 fine.
That PC clearly has a Pentium 4. And the 9600 pro is a AGP card, so you clearly need a AGP card to replace it. You won't find anything cheap on newegg. The HD3850 AGP (Best AGP card ever made) costs $220 on newegg.
I would recommend ebay
Look for AGP nvidia 6800 GT/Ultra's for cheap or a AGP 7800 GS. Or for ATI an AGP X1950pro
You're so right it's not even funny. No seriously, this isn't funny.
Anyways, it looks like my brother is getting a pretty much brand new computer now, the card is already on it's way and the thing had to be upgraded eventually.
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