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Old June 30th 03, 02:07 PM
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On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:46:22 -0500, "Tiny Tim"
wrote:

It is a waste of time to try to put a cadilac of a video card on an 800

MHz
Processor. Such a motherboard is probably not a 8x AGP. If you do not

have
a 8X AGP port then dont get an 8X video card.


Not true, 8X AGP makes VERY little difference.


You need a processor at least twice as fast.

A Sapphire Radeon 9000 is 3 times as fast as a GTS video card. It might

be
a good replacement. I run one on an ASUS A7N8X motherboard with an

XP2400+
and it runs great.


Hardly. a Radeon 9000 is only ~50% faster, not multiple times. It
would take a minimum of a Radeon 9700 Pro to be 3X as fast.


Dvae


I agree, Tiny Tim is talking ******** about 9000s being 3 times as fast. My
8500 (faster than a 9000) gives about 9300 in 3d mark 2001, and my GF2 Ti
gave just under 5000. Not even twice as fast, but a huge improvement.

To be fair though, I do get 3 times the score in 3d mark 03, but that's
mainly because my GF2 is only allowed to do one test 'cos its DX7!


 




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