ti 4200 upgrade?

[Gordon]

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I have a geforce 4 ti4200 running in a 4xagp slot. Would it be worth it to
get a better card for my gaming? What would anyone reccomend. Does it matter
thatit's only 4x?

 

[Guest]

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Gordon <notnow@no.com> wrote:
> I have a geforce 4 ti4200 running in a 4xagp slot. Would it be worth
> it to get a better card for my gaming? What would anyone reccomend.
> Does it matter thatit's only 4x?

There's very little difference between AGP 4x, 8x or PCIe 8x 16x for that
matter. What matters more is that with a 4x AGP slot, you probably[1] have
an older motherboard with slower RAM and slower CPU too. That's more likely
to cause a bottleneck that won't let you take full advantage of the newest
video cards.

Unless you have at least a Pentium M 1.6, Northwood 2.53, Prescott 3.0 or
Athlon 2800+, I think the CPU would be the bottleneck, and a 6600 would do
almost as good as a 6800.

Anyhow, don't worry too much about the 4x or 8x -- some people with 8x
boards run them at 4x and overclock the PCI/AGP bus a little instead (like
to 35/70 instead of 33/66), and get better results from that.

[1]: The exception being the Asus P4T533 (not -C) which uses 32-bit
RIMM4200 RDRAM, which can be overclocked quite far from the already fast
(and expensive) speed.

Regards,
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Yes, if your framerates aren't so good or if you can't run the level of
anistropic filtering and/or antialiasing you want. Or if you'd enjoy a
sharpening control.

If you're still into $200 cards, the MSI 6600GT AGP is very nice.

Running it in a 4x slot is no problem.
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[Guest]

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I think he meant the card was 4x and not the board but I could be wrong?

I was running a Inno 3d TI4200 at 8x agp and I replaced it recently with a
4x version of the same card made by asus

It benchmarks faster than the 8x card!!!!


"Arthur Hagen" <art@broomstick.com> wrote in message
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> Gordon <notnow@no.com> wrote:
> > I have a geforce 4 ti4200 running in a 4xagp slot. Would it be worth
> > it to get a better card for my gaming? What would anyone reccomend.
> > Does it matter thatit's only 4x?
>
> There's very little difference between AGP 4x, 8x or PCIe 8x 16x for that
> matter. What matters more is that with a 4x AGP slot, you probably[1]
have
> an older motherboard with slower RAM and slower CPU too. That's more
likely
> to cause a bottleneck that won't let you take full advantage of the newest
> video cards.
>
> Unless you have at least a Pentium M 1.6, Northwood 2.53, Prescott 3.0 or
> Athlon 2800+, I think the CPU would be the bottleneck, and a 6600 would do
> almost as good as a 6800.
>
> Anyhow, don't worry too much about the 4x or 8x -- some people with 8x
> boards run them at 4x and overclock the PCI/AGP bus a little instead (like
> to 35/70 instead of 33/66), and get better results from that.
>
> [1]: The exception being the Asus P4T533 (not -C) which uses 32-bit
> RIMM4200 RDRAM, which can be overclocked quite far from the already fast
> (and expensive) speed.
>
> Regards,
> --
> *Art
>

 

[Guest]

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That all depends on what the REST of your computer's components are. For
instance the CPU or RAM may be the bigger bottleneck in your system.

--
DaveW



"Gordon" <notnow@no.com> wrote in message
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>
> I have a geforce 4 ti4200 running in a 4xagp slot. Would it be worth it to
> get a better card for my gaming? What would anyone reccomend. Does it
> matter thatit's only 4x?
>
>
>
>

 

[Gordon]

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My setup is a Compaq 6000 series computer with:

845G/GL/GV chipset (Brookdale)
P4 478 2.4ghz standard processor
512 mb 266mhz ddr ram
Asustek GeForce4 ti4200 4x agp card

I want to increase memory. Does this chipset take 333mhz memory? Should i
just match what I have? I was considering addind a gig in the empty slot.
In my original query I just wanted to know what may be the best card for
this system. The Ti4200 isn't all that bad however it definitely lags for
some apps.

"DaveW" <none@zero.org> wrote in message
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> That all depends on what the REST of your computer's components are. For
> instance the CPU or RAM may be the bigger bottleneck in your system.
>
> --
> DaveW
>
>
>
> "Gordon" <notnow@no.com> wrote in message
> news:KeRle.14702$IX4.13422@twister.nyc.rr.com...
>>
>> I have a geforce 4 ti4200 running in a 4xagp slot. Would it be worth it
>> to get a better card for my gaming? What would anyone reccomend. Does it
>> matter thatit's only 4x?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

 

[Guest]

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What exactly does it lag in?

 

[Gordon]

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It stutters when playing WoW. The quality is not that high either. It's a
pretty good card all around however I was wondering if I would see much of
an improvement with my current setup by upgrading to a newer card.



"Gil" <gilbertviolette@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> What exactly does it lag in?
>