Help With Video Card Choice

OneBadLT1Z28

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I was wondering which video card should I choose? I am debating between the Geforce4 64mb DDR MX 440 or ATI Radeon 7500 64mb DDR? I just want to have a video card with good performance for games and also good price. Any suggestions and advice would be greatly apprecaited. Thanks for your time and help.
 

Spitfire_x86

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Get a Radeon 8500LE 64 MB. It costs little more than these cards and much better.

If you can't spend more, then buy Radeon 9000 (non-Pro). This will cost same and also better

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yah, what he said

dont even consider a GF4MX. they are bullshit, and you can get MUCH better cards for the same, or less. trust me ive looked
 

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The MX's do suck....stay away from them...I would go for the ATI Radeon 8500 Original(non-LE)....

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Another vote for the 8500.

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I got an 8500le here that I picked up for 80 bucks a while ago, so look on ebay, you should find a decent price. If you get a decent one, they can oc nicely too....

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Yeah, that would be my suggestion a 9100, it's a tweaked 8500LE. You can get it at NCIX.com (they have both Canadian and American prices; located in Vancouver BC) They sell the 9100 for $74.11 US or $114 CDN, just a tad more (about 10%) than the 9000(non-pro), but a slightly better card.

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What kind of tweaking it has? IIRC, it's a rebadged R200, and it comes 250/230 clocked, slower than 250/250 clocked R8500LE's

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It has one more "feature" - I forget what it's called but it helps smooth video playback - that is enabled in BIOS. You can flash a 9100 BIOS to a 8500(LE) card and have the same thing 'tho. The hardware is the same.

I just got my 2nd retail ATI 8500LE (Infineon 3.6). Both do over 300/300 easily :)

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It's in the video card BIOS, not the motherboard BIOS. You can only enable it by flashing a 9100 BIOS to a 8500 card.

Warning: I wrecked a video card by flashing the BIOS so I don't suggest you try it ("Don't fix it if it ain't broke").

*Dual PIII-800 @900 i440BX and Tualeron 1.2 @1.74 i815*<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by JCLW on 02/23/03 11:25 AM.</EM></FONT></P>