GF 4 4600 vs ATI 9600 pro?

[shiv]

Hiya
Right now I have a gf4 4600 and was thinking about upgrading to the ati 9600 pro before half life 2 comes out. Im planing on building a new computer next year around may so thats why I am thinking about upgrading to the more budget minded ati 9600 pro.
Has anyone else gone the route Im thinking about going? "gf 4 4600 to ati 9600 pro" And if so do you think it was worth it? thank for any replies.

 

[Ender01]

I just ordered my 9600 pro off of newegg! My upgrade was a little more dramatic though, goin from a geforce4 MX420. I dont know if you should upgrade though, is there any HL2 benchmarks with the 4600? I would see if you could find any benchmarks that compares the two cards.

 

[theotherguy]

I just upgraded from a ti-4600 to a 9800np, and I have to tell you, I got ZERO preformance increases, and some of my games run even slower! and Ive got artifacts up the ying-yang!, and if 9600 is worse thatn 9800,, then I wouldnt recomend it

 

[NYHoustonman]

Well, the 9800 would be an upgrade (I dunno about the previous guy), but upgrading to a 9600 pro is wholly uneeded. Save for at least a 9800/9800 pro or even the upcoming 9800 XT if you want any real performance increases.

 

[=)PoLo(=]

If you look at the benchmarks on www.anandtech.com or www.tomshardware.com you'll see that you'll get only a small increase in fps. So you wouldn't have to upgrade for the fps. Then there's the matter between DX8 & DX9. The difference isn't really that big IMO.

So I would say keep the TI4600, because there isn't much reason to upgrade. Save your money for a PCI-Express card...

 

[Washuu]

pci-express better then an 8xagp?

 

[TheOriginalEvil]

Yes, what exactly is a PCI-Express card?

 

[shiv]

PCI Expres is supposed to replace agp slots. Here is a small description I took from this url.
http://www.hardwareaccelerated.com/content/technology/pciexpress/index.php
PCI Express, (also known as Third Generation I/O, 3GIO, and Arapahoe) should allow us to have more than adequate bandwidth for another decade. Unlike its older cousin, PCI-Express is a fully serial interface, rather than the parallel bus architecture found in the current PCI bus. It can be used for many functions, including universal connectivity for use as a chip-to-chip interconnect, I/O interconnect for adapter cards, an I/O attach point to other interconnects. PCI Express can provide I/O attach points for high-performance graphics, 1394b, USB 2.0, InfiniBand Architecture, Gigabit networking and many other bandwidth hungry architectures.

 

[Curator]

Basically PCIE is capable of doing 10 GBps or 5 times faster than agp 8x. So yes, I would say it's faster.