Radeon X1600

[AdmnPower]

Hello, i was just wondering what your thoughts were about the ATI Radeon X1600 512 Meg AGP card.

 

[Geoff]

Personally i dont like it at all. I've used a similar x1600PRO PCI-E and it was a very dissapointing card. If I were you, I would look towards a different card. Perhaps something along the ATI X800/X850 line.

 

[AdmnPower]

Well it's not hard to improve on my old Radeon 9550, anyone else have experience with this card?

 

[Motoxrdude]

I don't think its worth it. I take it you have an AGP slot? I would get this instead-http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150158
or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814131010

 

[fade2green514]

pay less for a 256mb one. if you get a card with 512mb it better be damn fast, like a 7900gt or x1800 with all that ram, the x1600 cant even process 512mb worth of graphics memory quickly enough for the extra memory to help.
its like having a sempron 1.4ghz loaded with 4gb of memory. generally you'll never use all the memory before you run out of cpu (or gpu in this case) resources.

 

[tweaker]

pay less for a 256mb one. if you get a card with 512mb it better be damn fast, like a 7900gt or x1800 with all that ram, the x1600 cant even process 512mb worth of graphics memory quickly enough for the extra memory to help.
its like having a sempron 1.4ghz loaded with 4gb of memory. generally you'll never use all the memory before you run out of cpu (or gpu in this case) resources.

I hope your not suggesting Mem load and CPU load goes hand in hand.

Dont worry I get your point..

 

[fade2green514]

I hope your not suggesting Mem load and CPU load goes hand in hand.

Dont worry I get your point..

lol you get what im saying...
its just when i had a single gb of ram, id run out of memory resources before i would cpu resources which is why i upgraded to two gb's... likewise i feel you can quite easily run out of gpu resources before you run of out video memory resources.