7600GS for Athlon 2400 ?

[XPD]

Hiyas,

I'm currently running a Athlon 2400+ (@2.0ghz) with 1gb RAM and an AGP 9600Pro 128mb video card.
If I swapped out the 9600 for an AGP 7600GS, would I notice any difference in games or would my CPU be a major bottleneck and therefore kill any chance at improvement ?

I mainly play WoW, CoD 2, HL2/CSS........

Please don't advise me to upgrade my whole machine, I know I need to but money is tight with mortgage, kid arriving in 2 months and working for myself... but an upgrade will be done before Xmas

Cheers guys

[Helious]

yeah, get the 7600GS and then if you can.. try and find a 3200xp cpu.. they're about $100.. they'll squeeze some extra juice out of your rig

imo

[Evilmonkey]

You'd be wasting your money pretty much. Your current Video card is probably wasted on that CPU.

You'd need at least a 3400+ minimum to get desent pull out of a GS, and even then it would still be bottle necking a lil bit.

[Redneck]

That'll get bottlenecked all the way to dual core.

[farns]

A 7600GS isnt much faster than a 6600GT, I would think a Barton 3200+ would max it out pretty much. Google "doom 3 cpu battlegrounds" for an Anandtech CPU scaling article

You can pickup a used AGP 9800pro or 6600gt for under $100 which is a lot faster than a 9600pro

Oh if you did have a bit more $ for upgrade:

AM2 x2 3600+ $110
mobo $150
1gb ddr $80
7600GS $130 (easy to find used one tho for less)

OC it and that thing is cheap and fast

[XPD]

Thanks guys, guess Ill have to flog off some gear and get new mobo/cpu

[Evilmonkey]

Originally Posted by farns

A 7600GS isnt much faster than a 6600GT, I would think a Barton 3200+ would max it out pretty much. Google "doom 3 cpu battlegrounds" for an Anandtech CPU scaling article

You can pickup a used AGP 9800pro or 6600gt for under $100 which is a lot faster than a 9600pro

Oh if you did have a bit more $ for upgrade:

AM2 x2 3600+ $110
mobo $150
1gb ddr $80
7600GS $130 (easy to find used one tho for less)

OC it and that thing is cheap and fast

Err .. I own both cards, the GS is much faster, perhaps you are a lil confused about the cards.

A 3200+ doesn't even max out a 6600GT. Check tomshardware for a comparison between a 2700+ and 3400+ and 600GT's.

Doom3 = 1 game hardly a good benchmark.

[farns]

Yer I had both cards too in PCI-E, 7600GS was only about 10-15% faster though that was a while ago so maybe drivers are better etc

Anyway if you want to play WOW and HL2 a 9800pro or 6600GT would be ok, 9800pro was nearly as fast as a 6600gt in HL2 from old benchies IIRC

I guess the CPU might slow it a bit but a 9800pro will still do a lot better than a 9600pro

[Evilmonkey]

Yeh I have the AGP versions pretty much no difference to PCIe though.

I did find in wow there wasn't alot of differnce between my two machines mind you I only played wow for about 3 months :P.

[mr selfdestruct]

This should answer your question fully

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/...sis/page5.html

I'm loathe to go ATI but the writing is on the wall with this type of system I'm afraid, no question about it.