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08-03-2006, 04:57 PM
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X700 AGP or Radeon 9600 Pro
Hello, I am patching up an older gaming system and I have 2 video cards to chose from. an X700 256MB AGP or a Radeon 9600 PRO AGP. Which one do you think will run Oblivion best?
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08-03-2006, 05:07 PM
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Probably down to personal oppinion but I would go with the X700
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08-03-2006, 05:10 PM
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The X700.
As the guys over at The Elder Scrolls forum have found out, a 9600 pro doesn't do the job. Check out the forum here : http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/
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08-03-2006, 05:10 PM
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I would go with the X700, it has more pipelines and probably more ram.
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08-03-2006, 05:11 PM
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There we go..it appears that we have a pretty common opinion amongst us lol
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08-03-2006, 05:18 PM
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X700 hands down. If you can swing a few more bucks, ATI has their X800XL on sale in the clearance store of their website. It's a refurb with a warranty for $119. They also have new X850Pros for $119. Either of those cards are way better than the X700, especially for Oblivion. Oblivion can bring the best systems to their knees, so if you can afford a little more it's worth it.
 
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08-03-2006, 06:13 PM
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Thanks guys, we tested it on my below system today with only the 9600 SE 128 Meg and it was choppy during parts with a lot of animation. The proposed system will be as follows:
Used Celeron 2.4 GHz CPU (128K Cache compared to the 256K of my 2600+) Used AOpen s661FXm-US S478 Board New 1x512Crucial DDR400, Used 1xGeneric 128MB DDR333 Used 40 GB Western Digital Fresh Install of XP Home SP2 New X700 APG 256Meg Reused 8XDVDRW drive Reused 250 Watt Power Supply (Risky but only 1 hard drive, 1 optical and 2 DDR slots) I hope it runs as good or better as my system below with the slighlt better video card and slighlty slower CPU. My Client only has about $200 for the upgrade, I am taking his old board and PCI video card off his hands for the assembly. Wanted him to take an AMD 3200+ System with the 939 board and a PCI express X800GTO but that ran us close to $400 Candian after a bigger power supply and all. |
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08-04-2006, 06:21 AM
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That system is problems just waiting to happen and is too weak to play games like that.
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08-04-2006, 06:54 AM
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*Fidgets about in his chair nervously*
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08-07-2006, 10:18 AM
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Were trying to get a P4 CPU like a 2.4 GHz off of Ebay if we can, get up to 512K Cache or so. A gig of ram would help but the CPU chokes out when things get busy in the game (Like we expected). We had a real hard time getting any video at all until we upgraded to a 350 Watt power supply.
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08-07-2006, 10:33 AM
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yeah, I have to admit when I built my computer up I completely overlooked the importance of the PSU.
I had major issues getting my computer to do as it was told till I bought a decent quality supply. Hope things are working out well
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08-07-2006, 10:47 AM
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Yeah, and that SiS chipset board is pretty low end too. I hope the 350 watt PSU you put in is a quality unit.
It does support 800 FSB - and you should toss that DDR333 module and go with DDR400. It also supports Prescott, so getting a decent processor is going to be easy. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116175 This is OEM so a heatsink/fan is required. |
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08-07-2006, 10:52 AM
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Thats a very good point.
To be honest the system would probably run better with just the 512Mb DDR400 than it would with the extra 128Mb which is effectively holding the DDR400 speeds back!!! |
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08-08-2006, 04:46 AM
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However, with that 400 FSB Celeron in there, even DDR 333 is not running at full speed - it's probably all running at DDR 266.
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