Upgrade advice please...

[Nutbusta]

I was gonna buy one of thos bargain 3700 or 4000 chips from ocuk which got me thinking.

I have an X850 XT PE and was wondering if I can get much of an upgrade on this in the £150-200 area? It would need to provide quite a bump though. I am quite happy to OC, mod, solder and generally invalidate the warrantee

Any suggestions welcome

 

[Nutbusta]

Aces, thats just what I was thinking (great minds eh). I was gonna get a cheap 3700+ (939) from OcUK and maybe a B grade mobo with PCIE.

I already have a S939 AGP board though and was just wondering if £150 PCIE card would offer much improvment (other than SM3) over my trusty X850?

I see the X1900XT 256mg can be had for £170. Does that get much of a performance hit over the 512mg version? I have a 22" CRT btw which runs ideally in 1600x1200 if that helps

 

[Nutbusta]

Yep, I have seen them go for £200 recently (paid £220 for mine) and I still have the retail box, manual, disks and cooler.

I've ordered the 3700+ for the time being but a new card is most likely on the horizon.

Any more thoughts on the x1900xt 256?

 

[Nutbusta]

Yeah, opinion seems to be that the 850xtpe is still pretty resonable although it doesn't clock much. I was toying with the idea of going for something like the x1900xt 256 but its a lot of money that I don't have.

A friend has an x1800xt (which was another alternative) but benchies show it only a little faster than mine.

Maybe I'll stick with the 3700 which should clock pretty well and do a proper upgrade in a year.

Ta for all the advice guys