ATI V Nvidia

Guys i need your advice!

I currently have an ATI sapphire 9600 128mb GFX Card

Im looking to buy a Nvidia GforceFX 5200 256mb

is it a wise buy?? what are the performance differences and frame rates??

please any info would be appreciated

Leave your pc as it is, your current card is faster. By a good whack too! the 5200 is woeful.

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5200s a budget card. No need to get it.

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5200 is not to good mate

The 6800GT is good but costs a fair bit more

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Good idea to buy a slower card to replace your current one. I like the theory.

well what is best card to go for which is a step up from what i got now??
bearing in mind money is main issue (has in i aint got much to play with!)

what about the ATI 9600PRO 256mb?? (£58)
would this be much better

the only other card that is really in my price range is th Nvidea GforceFX 6200 128/256/512 (these are ranging from £45 - £80)

i want one which is a little better than the 1 i have currently but is with in reach money wise

can you give me some ideas?

p.s- im looking to buy these card from [www.aria.co.uk]

Ignore the 9600 Pro.

Maybe a x700 would be good. Whats the rest of your pc? If its all very old you wont get much improve,ment see.

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wait a little longer and get a Nvidia GeForce 6600?

My PC specs

gigabyte motherboard
AMD Athlon 2700XP 2.17ghz overclocked to 2.2ghz
512mb ram (pc2700, 333mhz) just ordered 2 sticks of 512 (PC3200, 400mhz)
ati sapphire radeon 9600 128mb GFX card
x2 120gig Maxtor HDD's 7200rpm
Creative Labs SBLive Digital SC

For the price range you're going to struggle to improve it at all to be honest.

Without looking (so this might be completely wrong) the X700 will have more up-to-date features and extensions for DirectX9 compatability, but the core of the card won't have the raw power to actually make use of them, so it might even slow your games down, should a game not allow you to turn off - for instance vertex shaders can't usually be turned off.

In my honest opinion, you'd get more advantage from actually getting an AGP/PCI-E motherboard, such as the fantastic ASrock 939dual-SATA2 (ULi M1695) (it's about £45), which will let you upgrade to a better graphics card when you want it, you'll be able to move up to the Athlon64, and keep your new RAM. If you absolutely need a bit of a boost in performance, that'll probably work better, and open you up to the PCI-E range of graphics cards, which are both cheaper, and usually faster.

Yeah, an upgrade would be ideal really, but otherwise maybe a 9800 pro (do they still exist anyway?!), but a x700 is actually a good card and I'm pretty sure its essentially a 9800 Pro, certainly performance wise anyway.

Then sell your card for 20 quid and you're away!

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