I am about to update my pc and the motherboard i plan on buying come with a ATLANTIS ATI RADEON™ 9800 PRO, i also already have a Nvidia Geforce 7600GS 256mb i was wondering which Graphics card is the better so i can sell the other. and what questions should i be asking the seller about the MB, Graphics card, Ram i already know its the following; MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Motherboard ATLANTIS ATI RADEON™ 9800 PRO 2 x Corsair CMX512-3200 512MB RAM AMD ATHLON 64 2800+ Firewire upgrade card and sorry what does the firewire card do?
From what I can see, you're limited to AGP bus cards... In response to your question, 7600GS surely overpowers the Radeon 9800, plus, the 7600GS already supports shader model 3, a must have if you want to play some of the latest games. A firewire upgrade card (from what I could understand) it's a PCI card with few Firewire connections (running @ 400Mbps), where you can plug various peripherals like external Hard drives, digital cam corders, etc. Cheers.
