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Is there a big difference with 128 and 64mb cards?

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lol, PC World. They test the cards with outdated games and outdated hardware. The P3 933MHz is the bottleneck. The Ti4600 destroys the MX440 in every single benchmark that is done properly. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. It's not just the amount of RAM but also the architecture and clockspeed that affects the overall performance.

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Haha okay I got ya there... Even I myself kept on thinking how could that be possible.... anyways would it matter how much RAM is on a video card if your computer is already loaded with RAM itself already?
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Yes, I am too, about Fall 2002. No definite date has been set though, just that timeframe.

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It might come out a little sooner than that. ATI always wants to timeframe their cards 9 months apart, though I don't know if this will actually happen or not. But I was hearing that their mobo chips and the R300 were coming out much sooner than anticipated. But ATI has made it clear that they are waiting for Microsoft's DX9 too, so again, who knows...

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do you know whats a 3D texture & how its implemented eg for games ?


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The R300 is a newer generation card so it's price might not be comparable to the Ti4600. There will probably be a newer generation nVidia card by the time the R300 comes out.

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We don't know the R300's performance or the NV30's performance so there's no way to know which is going to be better/faster at this point. For now, nVidia has the fastest card with the Ti4600.

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Okay I see.
Well even if nVidia has the fastest card which is as you stated the Geforce4 Ti4600 what difference does it make? I mean what kind of benefits do we get out of a extremely fast video card... I mean our eyes can only see fast so there wouldn't be any glitches already... what more can you get?..

Well, right now with just regular gaming, you don't need a Ti4600, but some people buy the TI4600 so they can turn on all the extra eye candy such as FSAA (which makes the image smooth by removing the jaggies), and Anisotropic filtering (which sharpens distance textures, making them clearer and better looking).

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I mean what kind of benefits do we get out of a extremely fast video card... I mean our eyes can only see fast so there wouldn't be any glitches already... what more can you get?..

Well, I can give you a personal example. I'm trying to run NASCAR 2002 with the details turned way up and I keep getting slowdowns that make it hard to play properly. I can dial down the settings, but then I don't like the way the game looks anymore. So I ordered a GeForce4 Ti 4600, which should be waiting for me when I get home today from work. It should also help Dungeon Siege run a little better, since that game has also been slowing down from time to time when I play. And I'm sure Jedi Knight II will run pretty nice as well :smile:

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Ok yes I understand that the higher the detail the more performance it will need. But just talking RAM wise. Lets say I have a gig of ram on my mobo already and I get a 64mb geforce4 mx440.. If the video card needed more ram to handle the graphics can't it just use direct access to my Ram on my motherboard?...

No, I don't think it works like that. Your graphics core only uses the video RAM that's on your video card, from what I understand.

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Actually, you're wrong. That's what AGP does. It allows the AGP card direct access to system memory. The disadvantage is, AGP texturing is a lot slower than storing textures in Video RAM. This is why having more RAM on the video card is a good thing. System RAM is only a fraction of the performance of a high-speed video card's memory.

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Well, AGP is a faster pipeline than the PCI bus to the system as a whole, not just to the memory, right? The video card doesn't "steal" RAM from the system for its own use, does it? That's the point I was making. I realize that the video card is connected to the system, and therefore system RAM, via the AGP bus.

Having more memory on your video card just gives it more bandwidth, allowing it to push more data to the CPU, isn't that right?

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not for the moment.

im not even sure it exists today games which use 64Mb memory for multitexturing.


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The video card doesn't "steal" RAM from the system for its own use

with this point of view, you can say yes, it does.

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Having more memory on your video card just gives it more bandwidth, allowing it to push more data to the CPU, isn't that right?

wrong, not more bandwidth but just more "space" to allow to precharge eg "big" textures for games & keep them "in" (the graphics card memory) to improve performances.

differently, the gc load/unload textures via the AGP bus & of course its less efficient. moreover graphics memory is faster than mb memory.


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The GPU core and clock speed matter more than the amount of RAM. FYI, the GF4MX uses a different core than the GF4Ti. The GF4TI is far superior architecturally than the GF4MX.

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Oh I see. sorry but what does GPU stand for?... I'm a newbie at all so don't know too much about all this stuff..
You have any idea what the TI4600 clock speed is at?

And another quick question. Does this video card have any digital outputs??
Looking at LCD's and saw either digital and analog...
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