Diamond Radeon x1600 Pro Question.

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Sabrenian

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Hey all. I was just wondering if the AGP Diamond x1600 Pro can play World of Warcraft at full graphics with good frames, and can it run off of a 300-Watt power supply? My much older Radeon 9600 can run WoW on max settings with about 15-20 FPS, so its a little choppy and getting annoying. If not, what is there another card around $200+ that can? Must be AGP.
 
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Theres also a VisionTek RADEON X1300 which is 512 and a PNY Verto GeForce 6600 that is 256. Can either of those do the job?
 
Sabrenian said:
Theres also a VisionTek RADEON X1300 which is 512 and a PNY Verto GeForce 6600 that is 256. Can either of those do the job?
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When your looking at low end cards such as those, there isnt a performance difference between a 256MB and 512MB card.

The x1600PRO should play WoW fine, but i cant guarentee that it will play it maxed out at a high resolution with decent framerates.
 
I was going to buy one, but I was told that the x1600 can't be be used with a 300-Watt supply, which I have. And the card I have now is about 4 years old, its a 9600 series, and it gets about 10-15 FPS with it at max. So I couldn't imagine it being any worse.
 
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I have an X700 Pro which works fine with my 300 watt power supply. I'm sure that would play it on max settings at a fairly decent framerate (it's much better than a 9600). It would also be better than a 6600, and the x1300
 
Clutch said:
Why does it matter? There are going to be miniscule performance differences between 512MB and 256MB.
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It's actually a huge difference....at least in ghost recon advanced warfighter, where having the textures set to high requires a 512mb card.
 
speedyink said:
It's actually a huge difference....at least in ghost recon advanced warfighter, where having the textures set to high requires a 512mb card.
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But in order to have high settings, you have to have a good card to begin with. What im trying to say, is that if you get a 6200 512MB card you wont be able to play on high settings since its 512MB.
 
lol, I know, I get what you were saying. Shouldn't a x1600 pro be able to play it on high texture settings? My X700 plays it just fine on medium texture settings, and from what I understand the x1600 is better.
 
speedyink said:
lol, I know, I get what you were saying. Shouldn't a x1600 pro be able to play it on high texture settings? My X700 plays it just fine on medium texture settings, and from what I understand the x1600 is better.
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Deffinetly not on GRAW. Two 7800GTX's and an X2 4800+ cant play them on highest settings @ 1280x1024.
 
Sabrenian said:
I was going to buy one, but I was told that the x1600 can't be be used with a 300-Watt supply, which I have. And the card I have now is about 4 years old, its a 9600 series, and it gets about 10-15 FPS with it at max. So I couldn't imagine it being any worse.
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That would depend on the PSU. What's the amperage on the +12V rail?

The Video Memory is irrelevant. In any realistic situation, an X1600 will not have the processing power to cope with games using close to 512MB of video memory. In the case of a vanilla 6600, even 256MB is wasted.
 
speedyink said:
It's actually a huge difference....at least in ghost recon advanced warfighter, where having the textures set to high requires a 512mb card.
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well... its all relative to other hardware in the system. if you have an AM2 proc with ddr2 1000 memory, then you'll probably see a huge performance jump in memory performance, and if its in dual channel with 2gb of the stuff then that should be a lot faster and should accomodate for some lack in video memory. otherwise, if youve only got 1gb single channel ddr400 memory for say... a P4 533mhz fsb then you may see a performance jump with the 512mb of memory.
it also depends on what game you're playing. for Quake 4 my 7800gt 256mb did just fine at ultra quality with 2gb of system memory but it was too taxing for my old Corsair XMS which was a single GB kit.
when i upgraded to 2gb it ran fine... but i REALLY saw a performance jump when i upgraded to my 7900gtx with 512mb.
 
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