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vogster
11-17-03, 11:14 PM
OK I have pretty much narrowed it down to these two cards. Basicly I'm looking at conservative overclocks for both cards and price. The NP will do 390/330 air cooled and the Pro will do 400+/380. The NP comes with 3.0 Infineon ram which sucks comapred to the samsung but I have heard it actually does ok on the Gigacube cards and the Pro comes with 2.5 samsung which should rock. The NP can be had for $265 and the Pro can be had for $335. Now my question is, is the extra $70 worth the extra speed on the pro card from a gaming standpoint or am I only going to get high benchmarks for my extra $70? Whichever card I go with will be teamed up with a XP2500+ Barton, Abit NF7-S and some Kingston Hyperx PC3200. Is the Pro worth it????

squads
11-18-03, 01:19 PM
ya i'm wondering whether i should get pro or non pro also. i just got almost the exact same setup 2500+, nf7-s and KHS pc3000 (BH-5)

spider_SLO
11-18-03, 02:36 PM
well - you decide:

the diference in speed is 15%

the diference in price is ????

squads
11-18-03, 03:05 PM
too much for me i'm getting a non pro

vogster
11-18-03, 10:13 PM
I decided the price difference wasn't worth the performance difference and went with the non pro. :)