@MGE: Here's the story. My Radeon 9800XT was very noisy due to an old fan and lots of use after 4 years, so last December I bought an X1950 which was nice and fast but seemed to hang occasionally (which I put down to my PSU being overloaded, or a card fault) - I put up with this for a bit but then saw it as a risk to the code I was developing (imagine a hang mid-save...) So I went back to the 9800XT. Then recently the 9800XT starting putting purple garbage all over the screen several times a day so I looked into current AGP cards that didn't need loads of power instead of things like the 3850, and there really aren't many. The 2600XT seemed the best way to go in terms of PSU requirements and performance so I got one, but I have this stinky DX issue. Helen's vista laptop with nothing special runs my game better...
Of course in about 2 months I'll be getting a brand new PCI-Express based system so this won't be an issue, but I need a card meanwhile to finish my current game and spending £80 on a beefy quality PSU (to run the X1950) seems silly...(I know you can get cheap big Watts PSUs but I heard that they are cheap because they are crap of course :-))
Of course in about 2 months I'll be getting a brand new PCI-Express based system so this won't be an issue, but I need a card meanwhile to finish my current game and spending £80 on a beefy quality PSU (to run the X1950) seems silly...(I know you can get cheap big Watts PSUs but I heard that they are cheap because they are crap of course :-))