upgrading my VGA... not sure if it is good, help please

[ExtremeOC]

Hey All...

I currently have a GeCube Radeon X700 256mb 128bit (DDR) and i want to upgrade my video card cause i want to play some games at comfortable fps. (ie. BF2, obvilion, fear, farcry) I was looking at the eVGA geforce 7600GT CO 256mb and it caught my attention.... i was hoping if i could get an advice on weather the upgrade path is good or not...

rest of my system:

P4 530J 3.0ghz 1mb l2 cache
Asrock 775DUAL-915GL
1gb ddr 400 ram
x700 radeon 256mb
160gb WD cavair SE
16X dvd rw
450watt PSU (generic brand)


THX for help... appreciate it

 

[GeneticWeapon]

Excellent choice my friend. Excellent price/performance ratio, plus none of the problems that ATi cards offer, like buggy drivers, resource hogging control panel, poor performance with older games, poor performance with opengl games, fragilitly, having to bios flash to gain performance.....etc.....etc.... :roll:

Some might try and sell you on a competitive ATi product, but just say "no thanks"......you be glad you did later...

 

[raven_87]

Excellent choice my friend. Excellent price/performance ratio, plus none of the problems that ATi cards offer, like buggy drivers, resource hogging control panel, poor performance with older games, poor performance with opengl games, fragilitly, having to bios flash to gain performance.....etc.....etc.... :roll:

Some might try and sell you on a competitive ATi product, but just say "no thanks"......you be glad you did later...

I'm sending an email to Nv to put you on payroll.....I'll use a few of your posts as reference, so if you get a check in the mail soon, dont forget your brother in the buckeye state. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

That said, he's right. Although its not a monumental performance jump, the gains will be noticable and its a fine GPU....can't argue that; nice price tag too.

 

[ExtremeOC]

thanks for the reply GeneticWeapon... i appreciate it... that's very good news... many people recommded the x1600 but i stayed away from it....

i was wondering... if i could sell my x700 , add money and get that 7600GT, how much would that x700 sell for .... any price estimate is better than nothing .... thx

 

[raven_87]

If you get $50.....I'd say you were doing freaking awesome.

 

[GeneticWeapon]

I'm sending an email to Nv to put you on payroll.....

I'll take hardware instead

 

[ExtremeOC]

LOOOOOOOOOOL!... 50$ pretty little... when i bought it it was $200 dollars... what a rip off :roll: i will try selling it and get that evga 7600GT.....

thx for help everyone

 

[GeneticWeapon]

many people recommded the x1600 but i stayed away from it....

That series of card freakin' blows man!!.......dont buy it!!!

 

[ExtremeOC]

ofcourse not, the x1600 is not the best video card in it's class... that's why i am going to buy the 7600GT and sell that old radeon :S (hoping for $50++)