Dead gfx card - moral dilemma.

[xiphias]

My brothers 9800pro agp has just died, and so he wants a replacement. Thing is, all the current agp cards are near enough the same speed and cost £100 quid. I'm worried about him buying something that's out of date already. It runs most of his current games fine, but it being agp is a dying technology. Should he get a x1600pro, or should he bite the bullet and upgrade to AM2 and pci-e ? He's currently got a 2800+ and 768mb ddr333.

[chris watton]

Thats a toughie!. If he likes playing games, then I'd say yes, go for an upgrade, the old XP 2800 is a good chip, but I found that even with my 3,2 Prescott, 1gb of ram and X800 pro were starting to struggle with newer games like Oblivion and HL2 ep1. I found it difficult to find good replacements for the older AGP , non PCI Express boards, so I bit the bullit and did a full upgrade.
If however, his PC's used for nothing more than office programs and net browsing, it wouldn't be worth it.

Edited by chris watton on Thursday 15th June 14:09

[pdV6]

Where's the "moral" dilemma you refer to?

[xiphias]

Good point. More of just a dilemma :P

[pdV6]

[robdickinson]

Theres an AGP 7800 series card thats ok, less power and more money than the pci-e version tho - cheap upgrade that'll keep him going until vista and dx10.

[UncleDave]

Simple solution..

Erase the boot.ini

[buzzsaw]

robdickinson said:

Theres an AGP 7800 series card thats ok, less power and more money than the pci-e version tho - cheap upgrade that'll keep him going until vista and dx10.

7800GS pre-overclocked to core 440MHz and memory 1300MHz. Plays BF2 at with everything on just fine.