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what card am i looking at to double my fps from a old 9700pro

Daytrader said:
how come the agp 7600gt is like £140 and the same pci version like £88 ?

AGP carries a large premium nowadays because it's a dead socket and people are willing to pay more for a card that allows them to keep their motherboard, cpu and RAM.
 
Daytrader said:


youve got access to the members market now,

go put a wanted Advert up,

you should be able to get a 939 PCI-E motherboard for £30

CPU for £35 / £40 (say a venice 3000+ damn good chips that clock stupidly well)

another gig of ram for £45 (crucial value select ram should do it)

and maybe a 7600GT for £75 or second hand X1800XT for £100


but what ever you do, if you want to see real benefits, you need to upgrade as with 1 gig of ram you wont be able to use full graphics detail on any new game regardless of how powerful your graphics card is, it will simply stutter you into oblivion as it fetches textures from the hard drive page file due to a lack of ram and the XP CPU of yours will throttle the life out of any new card.


a new AGP card for £140 + existing socketA AMD XP system = bad value for money and a bad idea.
 
It might not be great value, but it will be the best performance you can get for that rig though.

I want to do the entire Conroe upgrade in six months. and so I'm stuck with my XP 3200 system until then. I've been struggling with a ti4200 so I too am going to buy a stop-gap card.

Initially I thought the 7600gs, but then again, the 7600gt will give me (and you) better performance even if memory and cpu holds it back, and I plan to sell the 7600GT when I upgrade. So it's not that bad an idea.
 
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