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"KCB" <kcbaird@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "J.B. & Kathy" <jkastumavin@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>>I have a chance to get a brand new X850 Pro AGP for $175.00, and I
>>currently have a 9500 Pro. Would there be a significant improvement? I
>>have an Asus P4PE MB w/ Intel 2.53 CPU. Thanks for any info on whether I
>>should do it or not.
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>> Jay
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> While it would probably be pretty difficult to find any head-to-head
> comparisons as these cards represent different generations of video
> technology, I feel safe to say that the X850 Pro would completely
> obliterate the 9500 Pro in any tests you would care to run. You might be
> able to check past reviews of the 9500 and, if they ran the same
> benchmarks, compare to more recent reviews of the X850, but that would
> probably take a lot of digging and back-and-forth searching. You can also
> go to www.ati.com and search each product to further compare them. Any
> way you look at it, the X850 is leaps and bounds ahead of the 9500.
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X850 Pro will blow away the 9500. While there aren't any good benchmark
comparisons between the two, check out these benchmarks at Tom's Hardware:
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050705/index.html
Just look at the Radeon 9600, which is even faster than your 9500, and
you'll understand.