time to upgrade

[N. Chapman]

well i'm new here and i wanted to pose a question to the community.

Visiontek has released a new card for AGP that has DX10, the 2600XT. it has a core clock of 800MHz and a memory clock of 1400MHz.

i was wondering how much of a performance boost there would be over my X700.

thanks in advance

Nicholas

[jimcooper1]

You need to give your full system specs. FS performance is more dependent on CPU and FSB speed than it is GPU.  Your FS performance may already be limited by your other components.  Even so I doubt there would be a huge difference between the the X800 and 2600XT in FS..but in other games you may see a significant difference.  

Post your full system spec.

Regards

Jim

[Brett_Henderson]

My first thought, is to not spend money on an AGP card.  PCI-e is already three year old technology.. AGP is ancient..

A CPU/m-board combo that does not have PCI-e support, is very likely too old, and too slow to be upgrading; in terms of FSX, anyway.

[N. Chapman]

full system specs

Specs: 2.8GHz P4 HT - 2096MB PC3200 - ATI Radeon X700 - 17" monitor at 1280*1024 - 15" monitor at 1024*768 - 200GB Seagate HD

its a 700 not 800

i just want something that will play FS9 at the full 1280x1024 at full quality with decent frames

[MWISimmer]

I've recently upgraded from an X1650 pro to an HD2600XT as in my sig, and as Jim says I've noticed NO improvement in FS9 at all., although I've got ALL settings maxed, locked at 25fps, so I wouldn't expect an improvement  :P
It does play media a bit better though.

[N. Chapman]

ok right off the bat you got a better card than i do. i can barely get 20fps if i'm lucky

[jimcooper1]

ok right off the bat you got a better card than i do. i can barely get 20fps if i'm lucky

CharliesPop's better fps are probably more down to his CPU and FSB than his GPU.  His memory is running at 667MHz whilst yours is running at 400MHz so his data is travelling around the system 50% faster than yours.

[MWISimmer]

CharliesPop's

I like that, LOL  :)

[quote]better fps are probably more down to his CPU and FSB than his GPU.

[N. Chapman]

thanks guys!

i'll be buying a new computer in january so hopefully i can get something better than the one i currently have now(at this point i think anything is better)

Nicholas