1950pro AGP to 3850 agp? (will it bottleneck/good choice?)

iCe-BLaZeD · 3 Sep 2008 at 13:58

Hi guys,

ok, so heres the thing... im on a Opteron 165 (overclocked to 2.8ghz as 24/7 oc) and 2GB of mushkin PC4000 ram (ddr), on an old neo2 platinum 939 board

I currently have a 1950 pro AGP card, and since I have a little money coming my way soon (although not enough for a new rig).. was thinking whether I should get a 3850 agp?, would it bottleneck with my dual core opty @ 2.8 ? I wouldnt have thought so but its a risk

So, the question, upgrade card or wait it out and build a new rig in a few months? (or both ? selling my old 1950pro may get a bit of cash and make the switch to a 3850 a smaller investment

)

Thanks

ouzodan · 3 Sep 2008 at 14:47

I have one and they are a great little card seeing as your opty is a dual core right? then its a good upgrade for very little money spent.

They cost £100 & just playing Devils Advocate you can Get a new Processor Mobo Radeon HD3850(Pci) & 2gb 6400 Ram for an extra £77.38 on Ocuk which in my humble oppinion would get more out of the card, just thought id throw that spanner in the works

iCe-BLaZeD · 3 Sep 2008 at 14:59

ouzodan said:
I have one and they are a great little card seeing as your opty is a dual core right? then its a good upgrade for very little money spent.

They cost £100 & just playing Devils Advocate you can Get a new Processor Mobo Radeon HD3850(Pci) & 2gb 6400 Ram for an extra £77.38 on Ocuk which in my humble oppinion would get more out of the card, just thought id throw that spanner in the works

thanks for the reply... yes my 165 opty is dual core,

I was thinking of getting a few "budget" parts to build a new rig with as u said its not much more.. but then again, with intels compatability when it comes to new cpus I was thinking it might be best to hold off until a new revision/core etc comes out of processor, also if i was building a new rig i would build it with overclocking in mind and hopefully have high rated memory to give headroom

edit: also worth noting that i've got the option to get a 3850 agp for around 75£

Edward01 · 3 Sep 2008 at 15:01

What you useing the rig for? I mean do you game a lot and need an upgrade now or can you wait and get a whole new system in a mouth or two. If you can wait i would.

Or if you can string together a bit more cash now you could get this bundle and add a PCI-e GPU to it at a later date

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...1-OK&groupid=701&catid=339&subcat=&name=Intel Core 2 Duo E2200 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.20GHz (800FSB) / Gigabyte GA-N650SLI-DS4L nForce 650i SLi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard / GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz Bundle

iCe-BLaZeD · 3 Sep 2008 at 15:09

um.. right now i do game abit.. but not that much demanding stuff.. just wow/cod4/dmc4 which all run absolutely fine on my rig with max settings and some others once in a while... I'd play crysis but its a little sluggish on medium settings on my rig when there is stuff going on and I really dont want to play it on low settings

I did see that bundle but as i said im just worried about compatability for upgrading later on and I would really rather wait a few months and build an OC'd monster than have to change board/CPU/memory (due to reselling/hassle

) once again

mp260767 · 3 Sep 2008 at 15:14

i'd wait it out and get a new system, new intel socket is due out this year, so you should see some decent stuff coming up in members market.

Edward01 · 3 Sep 2008 at 15:16

If it wont effect how much you can spend on a new system in a couple of months you may as well buy the 3850 now. Will give you a nice little performance increase and shouldn't bottle neck.

btw - my desktop is still running a 1950 pro pci-e and has been an excellent card

. As you say can still run most games with decent settings absolutly fine. Oh and i have 3700+ SINGLE CORE if any of you remember what one of those was

iCe-BLaZeD · 3 Sep 2008 at 15:33

mp260767 said:
i'd wait it out and get a new system, new intel socket is due out this year, so you should see some decent stuff coming up in members market.

exactly, i was thinking of my new rig being based around the new intel offering, any idea when its out? havent been keeping "in the loop" when it comes to these things recently

Edward01 said:
If it wont effect how much you can spend on a new system in a couple of months you may as well buy the 3850 now. Will give you a nice little performance increase and shouldn't bottle neck.

Yes im leaning towards doing that for now... I just dont know how much my 1950 pro would sell for ;<