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X850 or X1650
Which would be the better card for me to upgrade to? It has to
be one or the other because I'm not buying a new power supply, or getting an nVidia card. Research with my brother-in-law seems to show the X850 is better, but I want to ask here too. My system specs below: Dell Dimension 8400 3Ghz Pentium 4 with hyperthreading 2GB DDR2 RAM ATI X300 SE 128MB RAM (current card) Thank you! Frederick J. Barnett http://www.eatel.net/~fred/ "Someone's got to take the responsibility if the job's going to get done!! Do you think that's easy?!" Gregory Peck - The Guns Of Navarone |
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X850 or X1650
"Frederick J. Barnett" wrote in message ... Which would be the better card for me to upgrade to? It has to be one or the other because I'm not buying a new power supply, or getting an nVidia card. Research with my brother-in-law seems to show the X850 is better, but I want to ask here too. My system specs below: Dell Dimension 8400 3Ghz Pentium 4 with hyperthreading 2GB DDR2 RAM ATI X300 SE 128MB RAM (current card) Thank you! Frederick J. Barnett http://www.eatel.net/~fred/ "Someone's got to take the responsibility if the job's going to get done!! Do you think that's easy?!" Gregory Peck - The Guns Of Navarone They are much the same, in overall performance (assuming you are talking both cards being the same versions, XTs, Pros, whatever.). The X850 has more brut force power, but the X1650 has some advanced features (like H.264 acceleration). http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/05/...is_other_cards Note how far down the list your current card is, either of the new cards you are considering will make a major impact. Luck; Ken P.S. I still use a X850XT PE, myself, and an X1650Pro for my HTPC. |
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On May 3, 3:03 pm, "Ken Maltby" wrote:
"Frederick J. Barnett" wrote in messagenews:sa7k33tb442t0nto3otsttvl0kmcujp5ug@4ax .com... Which would be the better card for me to upgrade to? It has to be one or the other because I'm not buying a new power supply, or getting an nVidia card. Research with my brother-in-law seems to show the X850 is better, but I want to ask here too. My system specs below: Dell Dimension 8400 3Ghz Pentium 4 with hyperthreading 2GB DDR2 RAM ATI X300 SE 128MB RAM (current card) Thank you! Frederick J. Barnett http://www.eatel.net/~fred/ "Someone's got to take the responsibility if the job's going to get done!! Do you think that's easy?!" Gregory Peck - The Guns Of Navarone They are much the same, in overall performance (assuming you are talking both cards being the same versions, XTs, Pros, whatever.). The X850 has more brut force power, but the X1650 has some advanced features (like H.264 acceleration). http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/05/...video_cards_fo... Note how far down the list your current card is, either of the new cards you are considering will make a major impact. Luck; Ken P.S. I still use a X850XT PE, myself, and an X1650Pro for my HTPC. I have an X1600 XT and an X850XT. The 850 is definately faster in most current games. The x1650 Pro has similar or slightly better performance than the x1600XT. But there are new games on the market that use the 3.0 shader - some won't run on a 2.0 shader (x850 can't use the 3.0 shader). Any game with the 3.0 shader will make the performance of the x1650 look much better. James |
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On Thu, 3 May 2007 14:03:28 -0500, "Ken Maltby"
wrote: http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/05/...is_other_cards That was one of the places we checked before I posted. :-) Frederick J. Barnett http://www.eatel.net/~fred/ "Someone's got to take the responsibility if the job's going to get done!! Do you think that's easy?!" Gregory Peck - The Guns Of Navarone |
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X850 or X1650
"Frederick J. Barnett" wrote in message ... Which would be the better card for me to upgrade to? It has to be one or the other because I'm not buying a new power supply, or getting an nVidia card. Research with my brother-in-law seems to show the X850 is better, but I want to ask here too. My system specs below: Dell Dimension 8400 3Ghz Pentium 4 with hyperthreading 2GB DDR2 RAM ATI X300 SE 128MB RAM (current card) Thank you! I've recently upgraded to a HIS 512mb DDR3 X1650 Pro, which is a great card for my needs, as it plays most newer games at a playable frame rate. My old system had an X850 SE (If i remember right...), which had similar performance, but I'd definately choose the x1650 over the x850. |
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X850 or X1650
I need one final clarification before I buy. In some places, the
X1650XT is said to require a 450w power supply, others say 350w. Which is it? I have a 350w psu, and as I said, I can't afford to replace it too. Do I maybe need to go down to a Pro instead of the XT? Frederick J. Barnett http://www.eatel.net/~fred/ "Someone's got to take the responsibility if the job's going to get done!! Do you think that's easy?!" Gregory Peck - The Guns Of Navarone |
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X850 or X1650
"Frederick J. Barnett" wrote in message ... I need one final clarification before I buy. In some places, the X1650XT is said to require a 450w power supply, others say 350w. Which is it? I have a 350w psu, and as I said, I can't afford to replace it too. Do I maybe need to go down to a Pro instead of the XT? Frederick J. Barnett http://www.eatel.net/~fred/ Well I'm not sure, I've only got the cheap 350w psu that came with my case and it goes alright running the system, which has the RAM, CPU and video card oc'ed. |
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X850 or X1650
"Frederick J. Barnett" wrote in message
... I need one final clarification before I buy. In some places, the X1650XT is said to require a 450w power supply, others say 350w. Which is it? I have a 350w psu, and as I said, I can't afford to replace it too. Do I maybe need to go down to a Pro instead of the XT? Frederick J. Barnett http://www.eatel.net/~fred/ Power requirements are determined from the total system usage. So they can only guess. If you don't have a quality supply it may not put out it's rated capacity. The calculator below may be helpful. http://www.jscustompcs.com/power_supply/ |
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