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| Thread ID: 52640 | 2004-12-25 02:31:00 | Little Bit of Advice Please | fryup (3762) | Press F1 |
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| 307301 | 2004-12-25 02:31:00 | i'm buying a new graphic card and i was cheking models of the ATI RADEON X Series -Pci express versions and i saw a X300 WITH 256mb memory and a x600 WITH 128MB of memory they both seem to be in my budget but i was wondering if sumone could tell me which one i should go after.i 've chekd the ati site it doesnt really tell me a real difference between the two models except for the obvious memory size. also if u were after a pc bcoz i'm thinking of selling ma old sysytem P4-2.4GHZ, Asus P4S5333-MX Motherboard - SIS Chipset-Onboard Soundmax, 64mb vga, LAN, SPDIF,512MB ram,60GB Hard drive, dvdrom, dvdrom/cdwiter,4 usb 2.0 ports and the other usual ports and a spdif out & all the asus cop and parameter recall and stuff how much would u be willing to pay - NO Monitor,keyboard,mouse,speakers. i was thinking sumwhere arnd 600-700 could be fair. cheers!! :) | fryup (3762) | ||
| 307302 | 2004-12-25 04:03:00 | More memory on a video card does not mean better always. I would go for the 128 Meg card. The RAM will be faster. Just my view for what it is worth. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 307303 | 2004-12-25 08:18:00 | dude, dont go for that X300, they are rubbish, they are one of the lowest performance cards ati has, PCIe is overpriced, why not go agp? do you only have a PCIe slot? 128mb is better than the 256mb version, just like elephant has stated. Pete or Metla will explain more in detail |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 307304 | 2004-12-25 09:28:00 | the thing is i only have a 4x agp port so if i buy a radeon 9000 sumthing i will loose only get half the graphic cards full capability & all 9000s only have a 8-pixel pipelines whereas the pci-express versions have 16-pixel pipelines and i wont loose any performance | fryup (3762) | ||
| 307305 | 2004-12-25 09:33:00 | if you only have a 4x agp slot, then you cant have a pcie card, a pcie graphics card only fits in a pcie slot and doesnt fit in a agp slot. my agp slot is 4x and i have a 8x graphics card in it and have no problems, it runs at 4x instead of 8x |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 307306 | 2004-12-25 10:32:00 | the thing is i only have a 4x agp port so if i buy a radeon 9000 sumthing i will loose only get half the graphic cards full capability & all 9000s only have a 8-pixel pipelines whereas the pci-express versions have 16-pixel pipelines and i wont loose any performance 4x, 8x, Makes no or little difference, Lack of bandwidth isn't an issue and all this crap about the speed of agp and pci-e is nothing but marketing. You do not have a pci-e slot,so where do you expect to plug such a card in? Buy whatever agp takes your fancy in your budget range, and wipe whatever mis-information from your head that made you make the above misguided quoted statement. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 307307 | 2004-12-25 10:38:00 | it sounds as though fryup is getting a new computer and is just pondering abuot which graphics card to get. no doubt fryup's new computer will have PCIe and ofcorse no agp. please correct me if im worng ,fryup. |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 307308 | 2004-12-25 13:55:00 | I think (forgive me if I am wrong) he may be thinking that PCIe is or is compatible with PCI, which he will of course have. Only expensive motherboards have PCIe. If you had PCIe you wouldn't have AGP 4x! I would go for AGP. Cheers George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 307309 | 2004-12-25 21:03:00 | no no no i am buying a new computer thats why i'm asking and also i've put abt my old computer to see wht u guys mite want to pay for it if u were gonna buy it | fryup (3762) | ||
| 307310 | 2004-12-25 23:55:00 | ooh i see, sorry about that then, for those 2 pcie cards you have mentioned, go for the x600 then, but i would still rather have a agp card, not just because they have less pipelines as you say, but also becuase they are cheaper and sometimes slightly better performance | Prescott (11) | ||
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