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8600GT V's X1950Pro

I actually prefered my 8600GT to the x1950Pro AGP card I had. The Pro was faster in many older games, but the GT won in most modern titles (once it was overclocked). The GT uses less power, is quieter (atleast mine was), performs hardware H248 decoding and supports DX10.

GT's overclock very well and x1950's do not. At stock setting the Pro has the performance edge but when both are overclocked they are hard to pull apart.

One vote for the 8600GT here.
 
The 8600GT, is really a rather poor performing card.
The older X1950Pro beats it handily. If its gaming your after thats the better card to go for.
 
ACESHIGH said:
The 8600GT, is really a rather poor performing card.
The older X1950Pro beats it handily. If its gaming your after thats the better card to go for.
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It's the card I went for following people's excellent advise on here previously. But my interest here was if I was going to do a similar build as mine for someone else would it be best to go for the X1950 Pro (as I did) or the 8600GT. Nobody on here mentioned that card before when I was asking about my build. But PC Zone this month are raving on about it like it's was the best current budget card you could buy! I was reading it thinking, 'what about the X1950?'.

So the general concensus is that for now, as far as NVIDIA are concerned, it's best to wait for the 8800GT (which OC will be doing for £148 inc VAT) if you want an affordable NVIDIA card that will give you a considerable perfomance hike over the X1950 Pro? Because at the moment it seems that NVIDIA don't have a card that can beat it in their budget range.
 
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There's already the 8800 GT and it costs around £170. The 256 version seems to be a phantom so far.

The 3850 is coming out soon which'll beat the X1950 Pro and 8600 GT without blinking, and according to Gibbo should be £117.48 (£99.99+VAT) at launch.
 
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