I currently have a ATI 9600. An XT I think, or whatever the cutdown version is. It's a bit underpowered for reviewing games. I don't mind playing stuff at 800 x 600, but all the screenshots have to be 1024 x 768 minimum. So I was going to upgrade, and probably spend about �150. However, a mate has offered me a 6600gt for under �50. Getting together the �150 for abig upgrade would be quite a bit, but would the 6600gt offer a noticable performance increase on my current card? And is it worth it? It's an AGP one, and it's apparently "heat-pipe cooled". Ooh, exciting.
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Huh. I was under the impression that the 9600LE was cheaper than the SE, which was the cheapest version anyone had ever heard of. I can run at 1280x1024 smoothly with anything I've cared to try. About the only thing I'd be worried about would be Homeworld 2. Are you sure it's your video card that's the bottleneck?
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It's probably the SE version, come to think about it.
Something else could be the bottleneck, I suppose. I've got a 2800+ Athlon XP and 512mb RAM (which will be 768 by this time next week). How new are the games you're running. Because review games tend to be, y'know, brand new. I was playing Sniper Elite yesterday, and while it was okay most of the time, any sort of action knocked the framerate down to about 10-13 fps. What games are you playing? I haven't played Homeworld 2 yet, but it can't be more CPU and GPU intensive than, say, Half-Life 2, can it?
(Plus, I really should be playing everything with the details turned way up, in order to get the prettiest screenshots.)
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