Whats better, a 9500 pro or a GF4 4600?

BigEejit

I'm making a new PC for my parents lately departed computer (lightning I think, no component will work in another PC) with bits and pieces that are lying around the place .... I'll be putting in a Dual P3-700 mobo with a gig of pc100 and a ATA-33 drive (best the mobo can take) .... a CD burner a floppy drive and a sound card.....

I have a choice of graphics cards to put in it, a 9500 Pro with 128MB ram or a Leadtek GF4 4600 with 128MB ram ... both will work in the machine ... the mobo is only AGP2x though ....

I dont think my parents are gamers and I am so I would like to keep the best one .... my main game at the moment is EVE which is DX9 ... but I dont know which one would be better. I cant actually see a whole lot of difference, I think AGP2x is the culprit .... the one I'll keep will be in a AGP4x board..

Any suggestions or observations welcome .... just please keep a teeny bit on topic

Ciaran500

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/index.html

daveyjoe

A 9500 pro is definetely the better card. The 4600 card is a DX 8 card. You'll find that the 9500 is streets ahead in image quality especially on Direct X 9 games like FarCry (and Eve). The 9500 is also a faster card. Also you should be able to softmod the 9500 pro to a 9700.

edit: as Col Loki said the 9500 pro can not be softmodded to a 9700.

Col_Loki

Yea pretty much what Daveyjoe said, except you cant softmod it to a 9700. Only the 9500 non-pro's can be softmodded.

Stick with the 9500pro, but the Ti4600 isint too far behind TBH.

daveyjoe

Col_Loki wrote:

Yea pretty much what Daveyjoe said, except you cant softmod it to a 9700. Only the 9500 non-pro's can be softmodded.

Stick with the 9500pro, but the Ti4600 isint too far behind TBH.

Sorry my mistake, Col Loki is right... You can't softmod the 9500pro

BigEejit

9500 pro it is then .... thanks for the help