Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Originally posted by: apoppin
Originally posted by: GEOrifle
I'm helping people to make decision DON'T buy overpriced or to be became cheaper cards.
And what's your problem? Do you have some cards to sale?
I made same kind of mistake 6 months ago when i bought hard to find P4 3.4 PRESCOT,
thinking it was a miracle. No one told me about Core 2 DUO's release in a month which droped CPU prices almost 70%.
Thise P4 3.4 Prescot $250 CPU i can't sell even for $100.
And problems sarted became biger: bought an 478 MOB with AGP slot.
Now whole system is SH*T and i'm also looking thise NEW X1950PRO shits which will just
last about a months and gona pay for it $300.
you sound like a *broken record*
like 'duh' ... if you *Wait Long Enough* the price will drop
your uninformed purchase of a DEAD-END cpu and lack of research was purely your fault ... i bought a [478] Northwood
instead of a Prescott over 3 years ago!
the MSRP of the 512MB x1950p Sapphire IS $250 ... if you *wait* it will drop - maybe $50 in the next month or two on sale ... in that *same* month or two the value of my x850xt will ALSO drop $50
why not enjoy the "latest and greatest" AGP GPU? ... for those same two months ... i don't give a rat's ass about $50 ... that's what i pay for a new PC game.
try too look at it from another informed PoV.
Indeed, I hardly consider my nForce 3 ultra socket 939 AGP board to be slow. It has an Athlon64 4000+ (San Diego with 1mb L2 Cache) (and bios supports all dual core athlons on the socket 939). Not only would I have to toss away 2GB of perfectly good Corsair XMS PC3200 DDR ram, but also my motherboard (which still runs great), and my OEM copy of WIndows XP. Whereas, if I just upgrade to a faster AGP card (from my current 6800 ultra), I will not have to go through hardly as much cash or trouble.
exactly ... your upgrade and mine both cost ~$150 after selling our old videocard.
Although yours is a much nicer/faster CPU than mine [which @3.31Ghz is close to the complainer's Prescott], it is *sufficient* for today's games --coupled with a x1950p
IF we *wait* there is gonna be a *Flood* of 6800ultra/x850xt in AGP hitting the FS/T and eBay ...
PLUS there is *something cool* about turning all your Graphics setting *up^*
... for a change
why wait to *save* fifty bucks?
of course, YMMV ... and i will be a bit *bummed* to see my x1950p selling for $179 next month
[which, imo is highly doubtful .... for the 512MB version... however, i would NOT be surprised to see it selling for $199 in a couple of months though]
toss a coin ...
i didn't need to ... it fit my needs perfectly ... at a price i was happy to pay ...
and i won't have to think of ANOTHER video card for another year
EDIT ... looking back a few years this is my *pattern*
i bought a Radeon 64DDr - used it 3 years, and sold it for a 8500-128 [net cost $100] and ran that for another year ... bought a 9800xt for $225 [*net cost $150] and ran it into the ground ... it burned up *victim of O/C'ing and a disconnected fan* ] i "would have" got $100 ... but spent $200 *total* for my new microcenter x850xt and used it over a year
cheap PC gaming over the last 4 or 5 years