advice required about updating video card

Just wondering what speed increase I would possibly get from trading my gf4
Ti 4600 for a gf4 fx 5900.

I have a athlon 1700 with 512 mb ram xp-pro os.

Or should I look at updating cpu and m/board?

Thanks,

Splat.

"thewalls" wrote in message
u...
Just wondering what speed increase I would possibly get from trading my gf4
Ti 4600 for a gf4 fx 5900.

It looks to be substantial. See for yourself.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic...charts-01.html

I have a athlon 1700 with 512 mb ram xp-pro os.

Or should I look at updating cpu and m/board?

Thanks,

Splat.

A motherboard that supports AGP 4x will do fine, and the highest minimum CPU specs I've seen advertised for
games is 1GHz Athlon or PIII so far.

Tony.

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The FX 5900 is clocked just slightly faster than the Ti4600. The main
difference is that the 5900 is DX9 capable, which the 4600 is not.

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"thewalls" wrote in message
u...
Just wondering what speed increase I would possibly get from trading my
gf4
Ti 4600 for a gf4 fx 5900.

I have a athlon 1700 with 512 mb ram xp-pro os.

Or should I look at updating cpu and m/board?

Thanks,

Splat.

If you are thinking of upgrading I just ordered an abit FX5900 (128Mb) from
dabs.com. They are clearing them out at £140 inc the VAT which seems cheap
to me.

"thewalls" wrote in message
u...
Just wondering what speed increase I would possibly get from trading my
gf4
Ti 4600 for a gf4 fx 5900.

I have a athlon 1700 with 512 mb ram xp-pro os.

Or should I look at updating cpu and m/board?

Thanks,

Splat.

"thewalls" wrote in message
u...
Just wondering what speed increase I would possibly get from trading my
gf4
Ti 4600 for a gf4 fx 5900.

I have a athlon 1700 with 512 mb ram xp-pro os.

Or should I look at updating cpu and m/board?

Thanks,

Splat.



Unless you NEED DX9 support, I doubt there is anything to gain from the
upgrade. I would recommend a CPU/mobo upgrade. a 1700 is getting a little
long in the tooth these days.

thewalls wrote:

Just wondering what speed increase I would possibly get from trading my
gf4 Ti 4600 for a gf4 fx 5900.

I have a athlon 1700 with 512 mb ram xp-pro os.

Or should I look at updating cpu and m/board?

Thanks,

Splat.

Save your money or spend it on the CPU - you wont notice any difference
until games with more DX9 support are released - Having said that you will
be able to use AA/AF without as big a performance hit with the FX.

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:42:39 +1100, "thewalls"
wrote:

Just wondering what speed increase I would possibly get from trading my gf4
Ti 4600 for a gf4 fx 5900.

I have a athlon 1700 with 512 mb ram xp-pro os.

Or should I look at updating cpu and m/board?


ONly if you feel your current games are not running as good as YOU
want them too. Otherwise, wait till you need it.

Today, 5900(NON XTs) are about $200 if you look online (double check
the GPU clock rate - XTs are 750Mhz).


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When 512K of video RAM was a lot!

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Thanks for the replies everyone.

regards,

Splat




"thewalls" wrote in message
u...
Just wondering what speed increase I would possibly get from trading my
gf4
Ti 4600 for a gf4 fx 5900.

I have a athlon 1700 with 512 mb ram xp-pro os.

Or should I look at updating cpu and m/board?

Thanks,

Splat.