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CPU bottleneck??? which card???

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I currently have an athlon xp 1800 oc'd to a 1900... gig of pc2100 ram....right now i have a geforce 2 gts 64mb so any graphics card upgrade will be great but...

I'm looking at either getting an ati 9600 xt or a 9700 pro/nonpro or something similar... I'm wondering though if my current rig will be the bottleneck of a 9700 pro??? Any help would be great. Thank
 
i would get the 9700

if your running you cpu at 1.6ghz then there will be a little bit of a bottleneck but its not going to be really bad
 
okay, so the 9600 xt is selling for around 155 and the 9700 pro is around 190 and newegg has a 9800pro for 210....it makes more sense to get the 9800pro for 20 more bucks but would that be overkill for my current system???

my xp is running at 1.65ghz right now
 
well...would I really see that much of an improvement from a nforce2 board and new cpu compared to my kt266a msi??? im fine w/ the way my computer runs for everything other than games really... i just want some better performance in games
 
There would be a bottleneck when running 1GIG ram, 1.6Ghz system with a Radeon 9800 pro?? I thought that was with like pentium 3 or older proccessors?. I am getting a Barton 2500+, nforce 2, 1 GIG of ram, and an Radeon 9800 pro. Would there be any bottlenecks?

Thanks
 
theres no such thing as overkill when a good deal is involved, I mean look at me, I'm bought a mobile 2400+ to overclock to 2.5ghz(hopefully, still waiting on newegg to ship ) and I still have a 9000 np, overkill for now, maybe... but think of the future.
 
Originally posted by archevilangel
theres no such thing as overkill when a good deal is involved, I mean look at me, I'm bought a mobile 2400+ to overclock to 2.5ghz(hopefully, still waiting on newegg to ship ) and I still have a 9000 np, overkill for now, maybe... but think of the future.
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Have fun on your mobile barton. I got a 2500+ and as you see below it does 200x12 with no effort. I think its over there giggling at my lack of effort to press the thing :D
 
If it makes you feel better, I have a T-Bird 1.4 with a 9800pro.

The Sapphire 9800pro on NewEgg has come down in price over the last few months and I just couldn't resist. I upgraded from a Geforce 2 and all my games run smoother and the image quality is a lot better. So go for the 9800pro, you even have a better proc than I do and I'm running on SDRam. ;)
 
ok, cool.....but, why are they saying a more powerful system then yours has bottlenecks with the 9800 Pro?
 
ok, cool.....but, why are they saying a more powerful system then yours has bottlenecks with the 9800 Pro?
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Don't worry about what they are saying.
Buy the card.
It will ROCK!
You won't "see" a "bottleneck", unless you live and die by benchmarks.
[Jedi mind trick] You will love the 9800 [/Jedi mind trick]
 
Yeah but a jedi mind tricks work slowly with such cpu :) and you know it's cpu bottleneck when changing resolution from 1280 to 640 gives you 10 more fps :D But get the card first and then change cpu later as i did.
 
Originally posted by malingjc
Have fun on your mobile barton. I got a 2500+ and as you see below it does 200x12 with no effort. I think its over there giggling at my lack of effort to press the thing :D
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sweet, I'll enjoy the extra overclocking headroom, and more cache. + I already sold my tbred b for $40, which makes this a $37 upgrade :)
 
Well, I got another quick question... what would you say is the smallest PSU that you shuld have for a 9800 pro??? right now I'd have to check but im pretty sure i have a 450 watt PSU but it might be 400, I have a bad memory... otherwise I think I'm leaning towards getting the 9800 pro at newegg
 
A good/high quality 300w PSU should be fine. Heck, even a good 250w PSU could also do the job. PSU's like Antec, Enermax, PC P&C, and ThermalTake are the brands to get. I'm sure others will agree with me. There are also other brands I forgot to mention but these are the ones off the top of my head.

If you PSU is a good quality PSU then you shouldn't worry. As long as the rails are stable and the amps are good.
 
thanks for the replies...I just ordered the 9800 pro from newegg...cant wait to get this beast in my computer :)
 
Check my sig... no problems yet.

Only have the free version of 3DMark03, at 1024x768 scored 5105.

Get the 9800Pro.. You'll like it just fine.
 
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