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9500pro still good?

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Well I've had this card for around a year in my old box. Soon putting it in my new box. How long do you think it will do me? I'm not all that hardcore, so medium detail is fine.
 
I'm still running a 4200.
The way I see it, truck on until you can't run the games you want.

Why upgrade to keep up with the Jones's?

Even with the old 9500 (or in my case the 4200) we're still above 80 to 90 percent of computer users.

I don't know a single person with a better system than mine right now, aside from internet tech people.
 
My 9500pro still rocks, it can play everything my 9800pro can, less a few video options to keep it smooth.
 
I use a 9700PRO but only because my last card was an 8500LE. I have typically bought a year or two behind the initial realease of a new tier of ATI cards. However, I have now adopted the new strategy of buying the best card I can get for $200 and hanging onto it for as long as I can. By doing that I get great frame rates while the card is recent allong with plenty of staying power. I think I will have this 9700PRO for a long time to come (2 years at least).
 
I am about 1.5 years into using my 9500Pro and still love it. I mainly play FP shooters in the WWII genre. I softmoded it and overclocked it so I am still getting good performance. I second the opinion to buy and then run as long as you can and only upgrade when the games you must play don't perform.

I am not big into Unreal Tournament, Halo, etc as they are to unrealistic. But thats just me. My son loves them.
 
ive got an 9500 pro comin from ebay...replacing my old gf2 card, plan to use the omega drivers, add some homemade ram sinks, maby a different homemade cooler, volt mod if i realy brave, and oc the bejebus out of it. figure it should be as good as the current 9600xt at half the cost.
 
It's got plenty of power to go with your Willamette. Putting a much more powerful graphics card on that CPU would be a waste.

If you're looking at upgrading, what are you going to? More importantly, what kind of money are you willing to spend on a GPU?
 
My system (2100+. KT400, 9500 Pro) runcs Far Cry acceptably at 1280x1024, all medium settings except for high textures and very high water. I think that's pretty good. I do plan on upgrading to a 6800GT, though.
 
A 9500 is still ok, but the next gen games are whats going to really push this card to where you need to get a better one for speed, but for day to day use and current gaming needs, it's a fine card...
 
i've found that with a fast cpu and good memory a 9500 pro still runs fast..

my friends beats my 9600pro.. ;\
 
the 9500pro can be a decent card, even today. Just soft mod it, and get almost 9700 (pro ?) performance.

I'm running a 9700pro AIW, and it's performing just fine. I'm hoping not to have to upgrade till next year sometime, when i'll probalby just go with a whole new system, new vid card, pci-express, 64-bit, all that good stuff.
 
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