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Need advice - help spending some $$$

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Hey all, need some help here-

I just had a friend in NV ship me a Gigabyte mobo (supposedly with onboard Raid, SATA, Dual Bios, and some other goodies) and a AMD XP2000+ all for free which will be here in a few days. I have needed a new PC for a long time since my best machine right now is a 533mhz Celeron. Once this new stuff gets here I will need to buy some ram and a video card for it. I have done a fair amount of reasearch within the last week and really like the 9600 cards. I am on a very limited budget, and I have to buy ram too... so this is my dillemma... I really want 512MB of ram (80$ say) and a 128 bit 9600 sapphire card (say 95$).. opposed to the 64 bit 9600SEs... problem is that is a good 175$.. and I only have 150$ to spend... I was wondering if I sould just get the 9600SE card and bite the bullet for a while.. or go ahead and get the 128 bit 9600 and only get 256MB of ram...

Basically, is the 128bit 9600 that much more of an investment than the 64 bit 9600SE taking into consideration that they both haev the same clock and memory speeds unlike their more expensive borthers the XT and Pro?

I really need a good machine here... I only do a bit of light gaming but like to play BF1942 at lan partys... otherwise it's just used for 3D and photoshop work which suprisingly my 533 Celeron still handles good.

Thanks
 
i dont know for sure but i would assume the 9600se would handle it at low resolutions...........if your ok with it thats what i would do.......the ram should help you in the long run......i suggest 512 of ram and the 9600se.......but dont get your hopes up for a beautiful bf1942
 
It really depends what you need it for. If you really have to choose between these two options, I'd say get 256 memory and the 9600 card for now. Then when you have more money it's cheaper to upgrade the memory. 9600se is really not a very good card unless you do very little gaming.

Another option is to get 512 mb of memory and try to find a used video card.
 
Anyone have any opinions of the 9550 chipset? It runs at a lower clockspeed (250mhz) but is 128bit.. would this have better perfromance than the 9600SE even at the lower clock becasue of the 128bit processor? There are some 128 bit 9550 cards on newegg for between 77$ and 87$
 
I suggest looking through the fs forum here and try and find something for cheap. Yiou can find some pretty good suff for the price your looking to buy with.
 
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