Xp 2400 2 Ghz and a Radeon 9800 Pro will i get ll the power fromthe 9800 Pro ?

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Just dont want to waste the Cards performance, is 2 Ghz CPu a decent
match, not alot of bottle necking ?

Thanks.
 
A7v266-e, 266 fsb.

Using PC 2100, with a 100mhz overclock :)
 
Ive got a Radeon 9600 Pro seems ok, but with the 9800 prices now, i
can get a 9800 Pro 500 bucks Australian, better than the 700,800,900
they were.

Thanks.
 
A7v266-e, 266 fsb.

Using PC 2100, with a 100mhz overclock :)



I think you were bonked on the head one too many times while in defense of the 'one'. Overclocking today is sort of 'boring'
where's the challenge? jumpers and software enablebility(word check) whoopee doo OC'n is an overrated pastime..MO of course, comes
from trying to squeeze 12mhz out of a 8mhz 8086..getting there and really thinking your something...ready to hack the planet....but
I digress.....
 
Want to answer the question or not ?


A7v266-e, 266 fsb.

Using PC 2100, with a 100mhz overclock :)



I think you were bonked on the head one too many times while in defense of the 'one'. Overclocking today is sort of 'boring'
where's the challenge? jumpers and software enablebility(word check) whoopee doo OC'n is an overrated pastime..MO of course, comes
from trying to squeeze 12mhz out of a 8mhz 8086..getting there and really thinking your something...ready to hack the planet....but
I digress.....
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Want to answer the question or not ?
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Wouldn't bother with Jad mate.

He just spent (and may still do but I don't see it anymore) a
lot of time asking questions but never actually trying
anything for himself and then moaning when people tried to
help.
 
Help with what ?



Wouldn't bother with Jad mate.

He just spent (and may still do but I don't see it anymore) a
lot of time asking questions but never actually trying
anything for himself and then moaning when people tried to
help.
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Help with what ?
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Bear with me as I killfiled him a long time ago, but I seem
to remember it was for advice on the Omega drivers vs the
official ATI ones.

A lot of people gave opinions and all he could do was moan
about how this group was rubbish and didn't have anybody
useful on it.


As for your question it's probably worth looking at a few
hardware review sites for reviews of the 9800, some of them
will likely comment on the bottleneck factor of CPU's on it.

It may help if it has more memory than your current card, one
thing I've noticed with Far Cry demo & my 9700Pro 128mb
(Athlon XP 2.8, reported speed 2.09) is that autodetect sets
everything to high except texture resolution, which I believe
is affected by the Grafx card ram.
 
Well i was thinking of upgrading to a Barton 2.8 400fsb, with PC3200
ram.

Or would you recommend a Pentium 4 ? 3.06 with hyper threading ? and
PET what the @((@ is PET anyway ? does it speed things up ? PET or PAT
?


Ive been jumping from Cyrix to Pentium, to Celeron, to AMD, might make
the jump back to intell what the hell.

Thanks.
 
Earth to lethargic!! I have never had any trouble to need help....except last year when the OMEGA fanboys were in here....and it
wasn't help then either.
 
To answer would mean a bunch of quotes about speed of the bus compared to the memory speed of the card. If you have read about this
and don't understand, I can relate, however, when you cut through the BS, it basically will be a bottleneck no matter what, until
the PCI/ AGP interface changes. Would you get the power of the 9800, compared to what?
 
9600 pro.

So 266 fsb and 9800 pro is a NO go, need like 400 FSB to mak eit
worthwhile then ?
 
my experience of recent games that use shaders extensively is they really
push the graphics card.
i get poorer performance with my Xp2400 and radeon 9100 than ppl with a
Xp1700 and 9600 in stuff like halo,
knights of the old republic, deus ex: invisible war etc ...
so yes you will see a perfomance gain with a 9800 and make sure you have at
least 512mb of RAM.
 
1 Gig of ram man, i remember my Atari St 512k of ram, worked great :)
 
Well i was thinking of upgrading to a Barton 2.8 400fsb,
with PC3200 ram.

Or would you recommend a Pentium 4 ? 3.06 with hyper
threading ? and PET what the @((@ is PET anyway ? does it
speed things up ? PET or PAT ?


Ive been jumping from Cyrix to Pentium, to Celeron, to AMD,
might make the jump back to intell what the hell.

Thanks.
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Wouldn't like to make a recommendation on which way to jump
at the moment as I'm happy with my current rig I've not been
following developments too closely.

I expect my next upgrade will involve PCI Express and
probably a 64 bit processor depending on how long it takes
for prices to come down on a devent step up in processor
speed. I've noticed that unintentionally, every time I
upgrade the processor speed is roughly double the previous
one.
 
Sleepy,

Performance gain over what exactly?

Sleepy said:
my experience of recent games that use shaders extensively is they really
push the graphics card.
i get poorer performance with my Xp2400 and radeon 9100 than ppl with a
Xp1700 and 9600 in stuff like halo,
knights of the old republic, deus ex: invisible war etc ...
so yes you will see a perfomance gain with a 9800 and make sure you have at
least 512mb of RAM.
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1 Gig of ram man, i remember my Atari St 512k of ram, worked great :)
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Oh? How many colors could it display? And what form of multitasking
did it do? Which computers did Multitasking in 1985~1990?

Size of the OS?! (heheh).
 
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