X1600Pro a good buy?

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A friend of mine has a ATI All In Wonder Radeon 9600 and shes gorwing old and tired, especially playing Oblivion on it. The Sapphire Radeon X1600Pro AGP is what im thinking he should get. Its $125 ATM and it seems like a good buy. My questions are.....
Is it worth it? Hows the overclockability? Should he get this or spend s little more for a better card? etc... Basically give me your personal reviews and opinions on this card if you could please. Thanks in Advance. :)
 
i would spend a little more and get a better card or you could just get a 6600gt for that price. i have only seen one full review on the card and it was a fairly bad one. they got several grahpical glitches in far cry for example. the x1600pro is actually pretty slow and the 6600gt would be a slightly better card. from the review: http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x1600pro/ "To make a long story short, the X1600 Pro produced severe visual artifacts in that in the parts of the demo with the highest payload on the GPU, some textures were simply skipped." and "Based on what we found during our testing, we are very reluctant to recommend the X1600 Pro to anybody."
 
an X800 GTO is 169.00 at newegg.

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it will easily handle oblivion and you can do FEAR on medium (possibly higher depending on the cpu). overclockability is decent.
 
trek554 said:
from the review: http://www.lostcircuits.com/video/sapphire_x1600pro/ "To make a long story short, the X1600 Pro produced severe visual artifacts in that in the parts of the demo with the highest payload on the GPU, some textures were simply skipped."
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That's not just a problem with the X1600 Pro. Far Cry desperately needs another patch. Try running the regulator demo (FC Bench) on any newer cards. You get the same problem. It may be the ini that's used in the benchmark, but the engine shouldn't have those problems.
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I'm kind of torn on the X1600 Pro. Good: 256MB, decently priced AGP version, AVIVO. Bad: not as fast as the 6600GT 128MB (256MB 6600GT AGP cards sell for $141 shipped on pricewatch). If there was a X1600 XT AGP competitively priced with the 6600GT it would be a 6600GT AGP killer. Since the 6600GT AGP seems to be disappearing, that shouldn't be a problem for much longer. :p
 
If you can get a x1600 pro with ddr3 its a fast card. Mine is overclocked beyond x1600xt speeds (675/725) and I'm happy with it especially considering i got it for $75 on ebay.

In 3dmark05 I get around 5400, but in games the performance isn't quite as good as that score would indicate, probably because mine only has 128mb ddr3. However, I would go for 128mb ddr3 over 512mb ddr2 any day. Whatever you do don't waste your money on a 512mb x1600.

I would go with a 6800 or x800 before either the 6600gt or x1600 personally. The 6800gt OC would blow all these other cards away for sure.
 
Discostu2120 said:
If you can get a x1600 pro with ddr3 its a fast card. Mine is overclocked beyond x1600xt speeds (675/725) and I'm happy with it especially considering i got it for $75 on ebay.

In 3dmark05 I get around 5400, but in games the performance isn't quite as good as that score would indicate, probably because mine only has 128mb ddr3. However, I would go for 128mb ddr3 over 512mb ddr2 any day. Whatever you do don't waste your money on a 512mb x1600.

I would go with a 6800 or x800 before either the 6600gt or x1600 personally. The 6800gt OC would blow all these other cards away for sure.
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i dont think they make any x1600pro agp cards with gddr3 anyway. in fact i couldnt find any x1600pro cards with gddr3. he should just get the 6800gs from tiger direct.
 
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