Hello, all! Today it came to me that I would like to get a new graphics adapter for my humble system. I was looking at a HD2600 Pro. So, you can most probably guess my question, which sounds something like "what to do"... Here are the options: stay with my current XFX 7600GS and spend the money on something else, like another HDD; change over to the HD2600 Pro; change to anything 7600GS< (like a 7600gt or something). Why HD2600 Pro one might ask - well, DX10, man, DX10... and maybe better performance... so - what to do?
Personally, I would just get a new mobo (maybe one that has the same socket as your current) and move over to pci-ex. AGP cards are more expensive to manufacture, thus the price/performance ratio is lower. Another thing is that I wouldn't worry too much about Dx10, pci-ex cards have enough trouble playing in it, let alone a bottlenecked AGP..
yeah, well, sure AGP's a bottleneck and yes, I should get a new mobo, but anyways - would be the difference between 7600gs and hd2600 Pro considerable enough?
Personally I wouldnt. I wouldnt waste another $130 on an AGP system. I'm sure that the price on that 2600 will go down though, and then I would consider it.
Definitely do not recommend sticking with your AGP setup. What I do recommend is saving up about $250-300 to upgrade your CPU, RAM, and motherboard, and possibly even fit a decent PCI-E video card in there. for your question, I would go with the HD 2600.
randomfever, why the HD? It has DDR2-800 whereas the GT I was looking at had GDDR3. And as mentioned above, DX10 is too big although supported (I mean the FX5500 also supports DX9, but obly the younger generations are able to use all the possibilities).
