Hi guysPretty new here so I hope I'm in the right place and asking for advice is allowed.
Anyway, I've got a 9600 Pro at the mo. I like it, its not a very major brand but it overclocks enough to give me an extra 1000 3dmarks in my Shuttle (about 12500 altogether). I picked it up for £85 brand new which is really the main reason I bought it.
I also recently bought a ti4600, for £90, which is about the price they go for nowdays isnt it (second hand). Its yet to be delivered yet tho. But thinking about it now, would I be better off keeping the 9600Pro?
I don't play a massive selection of games, doubt I'll buy HL2 or Doom3, but they're not completely out of the question. The 2 I'm looking forward to are Dragon Empires and Lineage2, which don't make much use of directx9 am I right?
I did some research and found that with no AA the 4600 trounces the 9600pro, and in a minority of cases the 9700Pro (and I usually play with no AA so I can whack the details up a bit further), but with 4x AA they're pretty matched, and a 9600 just beats it. The 9600Pro can play directx9 features too, but would I be right in assuming it wouldnt beable to play them very well because its not fast enough (compared to a 9700 or 9800).
I could probably whack the 9600Pro on our favourite auction site for about £115, or the ti4600 which would probably get the same back.
So to sum it up I was wondering what you would do, or have done in this situation.
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£85, post in the Bargains dept! 12500 is an excellent score but 3Dmark2001 is showing its age, higher res and/or AA+AF are what's needed to test your fine card.
GF4TI4600 are very nice ... and in pure 3D speed are faster than the 9600PRO BUT lack DX9 and have comparitively awful AA+AF. Not only that but 4600 are VERY near the top speed fo the technology while 9600PRO tend to get 25% almost every time. That makes the 9600PRO clearly faster and far more future proof. If you use older games you can add 4xAA+8xAF on the 9600PRO with virtually no perf hit ... the GF4TI4600 even with 4xAA+4xAF will more than half its speed, 2xAA with some AF is certainly its max.
