Help with ATi Sapphire versus onboard Graphics.

[dantedanger]

3 Years ago i bought and built a new PC from scratch (with help!) and bought, as my graphics card, the following:

Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 256MB DDR DVI-I TV-Out Lite Retail Box

This PC has since been dismantled for components and I recently bought an ACER T671 (Vista™ Home Premium, 631 P4, 160GB, 2 x 512MB, DVD RW, VGA on board) and the onboard graphics is as follows:

ATI Radeon™ Xpress 1250 onboard.

Is it worth while putting my old Sapphire in as a stand alone graphics card or is it too old and there will be no real improvement in performance? I am not really sure and would appreciate any help you guys could give.

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Thanks in advance.


Dante

[daniel.phillips]

Well if your 9600XT fits in the graphics slot in the Acer whack it in. (Might not fit if you have a PCI-E slot as your gfx card is definitely AGP)

[dantedanger]

thanks dude...il give it a go....

i assume its pretty easy to tell whether or not it fits in?

are there likeyl to be any problems with drivers for windows vista as it is an old graphics card.

cheers

[nichomach]

As far as I can tell the Acer T671 uses the ATI RS600 chipset. This is PCI-E; it's therefore a racing certainty that your 9600, being an AGP part, will NOT fit, and you shouldn't try to fit it.

[dantedanger]

yeah i just checked it out. the ACER that i am getting is a PCI E connection.

any ideas on what i can expect from the onboard graphics?

i was thinhkign about picking up

Sapphire Technology Radeon X1650Pro 512MB DDR2 PCIE Dual DV

if the onboard graphics were lame.

[nichomach]

Lame? I wouldn't use that word exactly, but if you intend to game at anything over say 1024x768, then I'd suggest a discrete graphics card. 7600GTs have come down a lot in price to under £70.