Is a Radeon 9500 enough?

[Bman]

Is a Radeon 9500 going to be enough to power such games as Planetside and SWG? when I only have an Intel Pentium 3 Processor 1.1 GHZ
and Intel Celeron Processor ata 1.1 GHZ?

More specs:
AGP (version2.0) Bus speed AGP is: 66MHZ.
348 MB SDRAM

The question is will my computer be able to run games fine with the Radeon 9500 with only a Intel Pentium 3 Processor 1.1 GHZ
and Intel Celeron Processor ata 1.1 GHZ?


:afro:

[The Baron]

Your processor will bottleneck you in just about everything.

[Bman]

Can you be a little bit more specific

[Bman]

Do I need to buy a need motherboard? Am I fine with the radeon 9500 and the pentium 3 and celeron?

[digitalwanderer]

Originally posted by Bman
Do I need to buy a need motherboard? Am I fine with the radeon 9500 and the pentium 3 and celeron?
Depends how you define "fine" I guess. :)

Why don't you tell us what graphics card you currently have and maybe we can tell you what kind of improvement you're likely to see?

[rokzy]

the 9500pro will be great for almost everything.

but your computer will still be crap because your CPU is so sh*te.

[Bman]

right now im currently running a shattty
Rage 128 Ultra (BLOWS)
so how much improvement would i get with a RAD 9500
and the same processor i have the pent 3 and celeron both at 1.1 GHZ
For ME will it be an awesome improvement enough for me not to have to upgrade my CPU/motherboard?
Thanks

[digitalwanderer]

Originally posted by Bman
right now im currently running a shattty
Rage 128 Ultra (BLOWS)
so how much improvement would i get with a RAD 9500
and the same processor i have the pent 3 and celeron both at 1.1 GHZ
For ME will it be an awesome improvement enough for me not to have to upgrade my CPU/motherboard?
Thanks
Get the 9500 Pro, it'll be a HUGE leap in performance for you....two, mebbe three generations at least.

It will DEFINATELY improve your gaming A LOT!!! I know that of which I speak, I had a rage128 too and about 7-8 cards inbetween it and me 9700 Pro. ;)

I have NOT tried me 9700 Pro in me PIII800 rig yet, so I ain't sure how well it'll game...but she plays GTA:VC pretty decent with a V5 5500 in right now so I figure you should be pretty good to go. :cool:

The 9500 Pro should take some of the work off your CPU, so you will see a decent all-around speedgain. :)

(Besides, you can always upgrade your mobo/cpu later and just pop the 9500 Pro in that. ;) )

[Kev1]

Put the 9500 Pro in, it will be hugh performance leap. The P3 1.1 gig cpu is very good processor. Might not be as fast as some of todays, but I bet with the 9500 Pro you can play almost every game out, including UT2003 fairly well.

Its funny, but my backup computer is a P2 450 mhz, 128 megs SDRAM, and GF2 GTS. Playing Q3 on it or my main setup (In sig) at 1024 x 768, 32 bit color, and I can't tell a difference :rolleyes:

And like Digi said, you can always upgrade mobo and cpu later.

Yes Digi, the K7N2-L is good motherboad. You probably have the delta which overclocks higher, but first K7N2-L is good too. I have my AXP 1800+ TBred A oc'ed to 1.750 ghz with VCore at 1.550. Its rock stable. Looking forward to AXP 2500+ and 2ghz + speeds with overclock :)

[Dazz]

I had a Duron 800 @ 1GHz and picked up a Ti4400 and i saw very little increase in speed over my Geforce2 GTS, heck in MOH it seemed alot slower in SP! But once i picked up an XP2100+ all was good :)

[silence]

my advice is stick to 9500, cause u can tweak it to work much better then stock.
no need to flash BIOS or anything....all u need are omega drivers.

i have then on my 9500pro and it's clocked 310/310 without any problem.....

[pigfukerd]

Originally posted by silence
my advice is stick to 9500, cause u can tweak it to work much better then stock.
no need to flash BIOS or anything....all u need are omega drivers.

i have then on my 9500pro and it's clocked 310/310 without any problem.....



I hear that:D