Right, I've decided that I can scrape up just enough money to have one last hurrah on my aging Athlon XP system. Before anyone asks: yes, I'm aware there's a reasonable chance that my modestly overclocked CPU is going to bottleneck some games, but frankly I don't intend to play many new games on this machine (I have Kali for that) - it'll predominantly be used for light gaming and in-house LANing, and for me to kill time on if the other half nicks Kali!
So, I appear to have 2 options:
Sapphire 3850 512MB - £69.58 - last generation, 256bit memory bus, draws a *lot* of power (apparently, it comes with it's own Y-adapter to draw power from 2 molex connectors).
Powercolor 4670 1GB - £72.21 - current (just!) generation, 128bit memory bus, lower power requirements (single molex connector on PCB).
Both cards are 320 stream processor, the 4670 clocks slightly higher so has more arithmetical grunt, but obviously will suffer from a lack of bandwidth. From what I can tell performance difference between the two cards is likely to be marginal. It would also appear that both cards have some driver issues due to the need for AGP hotfixes to the catalyst drivers, but a bit of research suggests that the problem isn't worse for either card.
Given how even the cards seem to be (and that this will definitely be the last upgrade for this machine!), anyone got any advice for me on choosing between them?


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