Which one?

Basically it's to choose which one you'll get: a $120 GeForce 9600GT or a $320 PSP-2000?

I have $100, which I get from my parents as New Year's gift. I'm planning on buying a gfx card, GeForce 7200 GS is horrible. At the same time, I want to get a PSP. The IDOLM@STER SP is coming this year, and I wanna play it, what with many other games I wanna try too.

Here's the condition:
1. I'm getting one of them as my birthday present, and only one of them, can't both
2. I have $100, which means I can lift the burden of my mother up to $100
3. My PC's armed with Intel Core2 Due E4600 2.4 @GHz. Which might make GeForce 9600 GT a bit less powerful

Here's the considerations:
1. In a PC mag I read on the other day, an article said GeForce 9600 GT won't be fitting to play the next-gen games in the next 5 years, which might make me hesitate to get it

2. In the same mag, in another article, PSP2 will follow-up PSP-3000 in 2009, which makes me hesitate

3. Getting a PSP-2000 for $350 is around the same with getting a pack of Intel Q6600 and GeForce 9600 GT, which comes out at $380. $30 difference, yet so much difference in result

Which one shoud I take?

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As was mentioned before, the 4850 is better in terms of price/performance, so if you can afford that it'd be much recommended over the 9600GT. That said, I have a 9600GT and just got a 24" Monitor. Haven't tried any newish FPS on max res, but it runs RTS games like Red Alert 3 and Company of Heroes on max, as well as all the HL2 Source Engine games.
 
[quote name='Raestloz' post='1746139' date='Feb 1 2009, 09:05 AM']@Joe88: My motherboard eh? I buy my PC piece by piece, so I think it's possible to overclock it. By the way... what does the motherboard has to do with overclock? Isn't it the processor that we want to overclock? Does it mean virtually all processors can be overclocked?[/quote]
the BIOS on the motherboard allows you to overclock and have full control over the system components
motherboard company's have these bios usually custom made while other improve on already released bios
and the computer manufacturers (dell,emachines,hp) just lock up everything in the system

but yes all cpu's can be overclocked but the motherboard holds a lot of them back of and will be stuck at stock speeds
 
Really? I heard nVIDIA products got much better compatibility since the "The way it's meant to be played" logo is stamped everywhere. Maybe I'll check this 4850 thing out, see what my acquaintance recommend me
 
[quote name='Raestloz' post='1748318' date='Feb 3 2009, 12:29 AM']Really? I heard nVIDIA products got much better compatibility since the "The way it's meant to be played" logo is stamped everywhere.[/quote]

Thats all just marketing. Both nVIDIA and ATi will run games fine, regardless of whether it has an nVIDIA or ATi logo stamped on it.
 
If you want to overclock your GPU, I've seen people using either nTune, the offical tool, but I use RiveTuner, which works.
 

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