will these new X1600 and X1300 card beat an X800XT PE in any games? or are those cards only designed to be better than there older X600 & X300 cards?
Pretty much, it's remotely possible the X1600XT will be a nip faster than yours in a select few tests but it's not likely as the clock speeds are about the same and it has 4 less pipes. The X1300XT wont even come close but for a budget it's a nice card anyway.
hmm, would it be wise for me to upgrade to pci express and get a x1600xt, as they will sell cheaper than even x800xt's.
My bad, actually the X1600XT has clock speeds a good bit higher than the X800XT PE but in actual performance testing with games it under performs. The image quality will be good but it simply isn't designed for the highend user. When you move to PCIe don't get this card, look into a 7800GT instead.
Also sounds like the X1800XL is a very nice card: "Evesham has a cracking PC in the Axis Blaze 1800XL - reviewed by PC Pro - paper version. It is so new, you won't even find it on Evesham's or PC Pro's website. It comes with a Non-master Gecube X1800XL 256MB card, a 21.3-inch NEC TFT, a Crossfire Compatible MSI motherboard, an Athlon X2 4400+ CPU and much more. Even with pre-release/beta drivers, the single card was able to tear a Dual 7800GTX from a Dell Dimension XPS600 - 55 fps vs 70 fps while costing £1200 less." From the inquirer
i am really confused, what should i do, upgrade to pci-express yet, or just buy new motherboard with agp, and 939 skt, becouse. the X800XT PE is about at the same level as the 6600GT was about 6 months ago.
If you really want PCI-e, then i think now would be the time to do it. Either that or wait and see if anything new comes out within the next couple of months and then upgrade. You shouldn't NEED to upgrade, considering you already did recently as Ex said.
Definatly do get an AGP mobo. That's just blocking your upgrade path for the future. Always think of the most efficient path you can take, and AGP socket 939 doesn't fit that bill. If I were you and really wanted to upgrade I'd go all out or do nothing at all. At this point I'd wait however as more, better cards are on the way and the M2 socket makes the most sense at this point. I'm sure you're rig will hold you until next year.
i would be happy to wait, but remember, the shutting down problems i have eh?, cant play unreal tournament 2004 withought computer shutting down 10 mins into game.
Looks like I'd better check out that thread! (but that would be a software prob most likely, upgrading probably wouldn't help).
defenitly is NOT a software problem, there is a thread about it somewere, the first ever time i treid to solve this problem was on a different forum, and it never got solved, thread ended up been nearly 33 pages long, since problem started, everyhitng has been replaced, exept for the Motherboard.
