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bthylafh wrote:I thought this post must be the ultimate necro when I saw the headline.
Starfalcon wrote:It is funny how they have come full circle with their numbers now. The new 7000 is quite a bit better than the old 7000 model though, and I look forward to when they get back to the 9800 model again...just to see how much it will blow the doors off the old card.
hans wrote:If you were looking to upgrade from a 4850, with a budget of $250-300, would you wait?
bthylafh wrote:I thought this post must be the ultimate necro when I saw the headline.
SuperSpy wrote:bthylafh wrote:I thought this post must be the ultimate necro when I saw the headline.
EDIT: Actually my first thought was "oh that card is so old he can't find a spec sheet for it any more"
RADEON 7000 has only one pixel-pipeline, no hardware T&L, a 64-bit memory bus, and no HyperZ. It did however add HydraVision dual-monitor support and integrated a 2nd RAMDAC into the core (for Hydravision).
hans wrote:If you were looking to upgrade from a 4850, with a budget of $250-300, would you wait?
morphine wrote:Probably some market researcher once in a time "determined" that the best numbers for customer confusion lie in the 3000-10000 range.
riviera74 wrote:If you've got an AGP system, the best that you can hope for is to replace the whole thing.For those of us with older systems (i.e. with AGP not PCIe), the Radeon HD3000 series is probably the best we can hope for...
JustAnEngineer wrote:riviera74 wrote:If you've got an AGP system, the best that you can hope for is to replace the whole thing.For those of us with older systems (i.e. with AGP not PCIe), the Radeon HD3000 series is probably the best we can hope for...
riviera74 wrote:JustAnEngineer wrote:riviera74 wrote:If you've got an AGP system, the best that you can hope for is to replace the whole thing.For those of us with older systems (i.e. with AGP not PCIe), the Radeon HD3000 series is probably the best we can hope for...
I would replace the whole thing if I had the funds to do just that. Right now I do not.
vargis14 wrote:Agreed but i see your signature,only 1gig of ram,I would at least upgrade it to 2gb or higher,will probably let you multitask alot better and help all around system performance,imm pretty sure with 1gb you do alot of waiting on your hard drive switching applications and such.Then just run the resolution as low as you have to to get playable frame rates until you save up for a new system.
riviera74 wrote:For those of us with older systems (i.e. with AGP not PCIe), the Radeon HD3000 series is probably the best we can hope for