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Lesson learned: avoid GF MX anything at ALL COST

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October 11, 2003 7:32:29 AM

Gigabyte 8S648-L
Celeron 1.7G
256 DDR333
Hitachi 60G
Ennyah GF2MX400

and a 3DMark2001SE score of no more than 1200!!!

switch to a Leadtech WinFast A280TD (GF4Ti4200, 64MB)
and now my score is over 7000!!!

Moral of the story: If you bought any GeForce MX, you just wasted your money. I had higher score with a GEFORCE 256 DDR!!! If all you want is a budget system then get the MX but you are better off with GF3 Ti200, it only cost a little more and its a lot faster, plus it supports DX8. Now I dont know what to do with that NT$1200 I just wasted (thats about $50 USD... can buy a CD burner, still considered alot of money here...) If you got one lying around I suggest giving it to someone you dont like.

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October 11, 2003 7:45:53 AM

hehehe we all knew that long ago. Tw people all thinks "oh it's a GF4 MX, it's just a little slower than Ti" that's why everyone has a MX or FX5200 in TW. They think it's good!!

by the way, i'm taiwanese too, i'm just showing how ignornent people can be.

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October 11, 2003 8:06:58 AM

Your still up squirtle?

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October 11, 2003 8:17:08 AM

Every CyberCafe I've been to in TW has either a MX400 or MX440, and they do suck too. Most games people play here are like DirectX 6 type of game or something that even a 2 year old computer will run fast... then the thing is so cluttered (especially in Taipei) and plus winblows 98 making their computer a pain in the @$$ to use. By the way ALL the internet cafe I've been to down south (Tainan) uses windows 2000 which is worlds better, plus you dont need to lug a floppy disk or a CD around just so you can use your keychain drive. I hated doing that... then have to pray that their floppy drive (if they got one) or CD-ROM drive works, cause most of them dont. And at NT$30 an hour its overpriced (Tainan charges like 20 a hour MAX and usually 100 for 10 hours). Makes me wonder if Taipei is the technology capitol of the world why do their cybercafe suck so much... By the way it took some work to track down a GF3/4Ti anything because most computer shops in the market (ones under the bridge that is) only either sells MX's or FX's, or ATI's (which is still too expensive for me). Im under the impression that Ti4200 is faster than FX5200's and only thing good about FX's is that they support directX 9 and eats a hell alot of power... is that true?
October 11, 2003 8:18:43 AM

ya i am

doing tutor work :D 

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October 11, 2003 8:21:30 AM

hehehe it's cyber cafes, what do u except? they have a revenue to keep up. If u go to smaller place where they have small cafes with like 10 computer, u'll get much better comps. And u think NT$30/ hour is expensive? come to Canada and see :D 

There's nothing good about the FXs..... oh wait there is, they warm u up in winter times

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October 11, 2003 8:24:22 AM

Still here, dude.

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October 11, 2003 8:24:39 AM

UFO, u there?


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October 11, 2003 8:25:44 AM

Were you ever able to work out the probs withthte Canterwood mobo?

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October 11, 2003 8:27:32 AM

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UFO, u there?


Yup, I was working on Business Class & I lefet this page open. I sent my phot to scamtron for the THGC Phot Album, :D  WHen are you going ot do it sir?

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October 11, 2003 8:28:26 AM

well that's see.... I running in TURBO mode right now which means PAT is on and the FSB is 210 CPU @ 2.54GHz, Ram setting 2.5-3-3-7. However i still freaking freeze in aquamark 3 for some reason..... -_- Also my Athlon XP 2500+ is wasting my P4 in FFXI benchmark 2 -_-
there's something wrong with the video card..... AGAIN -_-

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October 11, 2003 8:29:05 AM

when there are more Chinese people in this forum ;) 

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October 11, 2003 8:29:37 AM

WHich Video Card do you have in the New Computer?

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October 11, 2003 8:30:47 AM

So what if Your Chinese, you'll be the first. Don't be ashamed of your race dude. Chinese people rock!

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October 11, 2003 8:31:09 AM

both AMD and P4 system have Ti4200-8x

one is ASUS Ti4200-8x 128mb
one is PNY Ti4200-8x 64mb

one has 1Gb --> 2x256mb + 1x 512mb PC2700 ram
one has 512 2x256mb PC3500 ram



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October 11, 2003 8:31:51 AM

that's because ur freaking crazy about hot asian chick......

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October 11, 2003 8:33:55 AM

But your a <b>GUY</b>. Its not like I'm going to be phantasizing over you Coolsquirtle, & don't worry, I'm not gay either.

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October 11, 2003 8:36:25 AM

good lolz......i really hope my Radeon 9600pro wont get fvcked up by my comp like my Ti4200

i think i need a new hard drive......(checks wallet)..... i wont be getting anything for QUITE A WHILE :D 

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October 11, 2003 8:38:05 AM

Have you installed the latest Motherboard Chipset Drivers available form the manufacturers' website?

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October 11, 2003 8:38:49 AM

So, your going to join the THGC Photo ALbum?

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October 11, 2003 8:40:13 AM

yup, and did i mention MSI live update 3 sucks arse? cause it does!! the connection lags soo bad and the d/l always freezes and u have to restart the update.....

I'll join once i get my webcam which is coming with my Radeon 9600pro.

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October 11, 2003 8:43:03 AM

Oh my Freakin' Gosh!! I've never heard os a manufacturer's Website having such an piss poor internet connection!

:eek:  THat's the same Company that my Ti4200s are from :eek: 

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October 11, 2003 8:43:48 AM

well it might be my piss poor connection...... Shaw SUCKS ARSE!!!

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October 11, 2003 8:45:12 AM

Maybe their just having some temporary web trouble. Have you tried downloading the drivers from an alternate source?

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October 11, 2003 8:46:38 AM

669 messages since I last checked the CPU section :redface: . That's embarrassing isn't it?

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October 11, 2003 8:47:40 AM

it works fine if i d/l manually. Oh ya... when my PNY card came today, it came with a GeForce FX driver cd lolz, so i could install dawn.... but it didn't run~~ i'll run it when i get my R9600pro :D 

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October 11, 2003 8:48:59 AM

nah it's like the same for the memory forum for me

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October 11, 2003 8:52:07 AM

I wonder what type of error message came up in the "Dawn" program or if you just got a black screen or what.

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October 11, 2003 8:53:12 AM

some about how my card isn't a GeForce FX so i can't run it
and it quits

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October 11, 2003 8:55:42 AM

I Wonder if this "GeForce FX" CD came with GeForce FX exclusive drivers somehow instead of the Detonator Drivers. Oh, & you did try downloading Detonator 45 I hope

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October 11, 2003 8:57:25 AM

ya i got the 45.23........~~~ aquamark3 keeps on freaking freezing on my cause i can't change my setting (non-pro version).............nah the CD came with 44.03 drivers, it's PNY we're talking about AKA Radeon style bundle.

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October 11, 2003 8:59:14 AM

Maybe PNY sent you your old GeForce4 Ti, I'll bash their heads open if they pulled that crap on you again!

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October 11, 2003 9:03:41 AM

nah it was a new card, cause it look completely different.

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October 11, 2003 9:05:45 AM

Hmmm, maybe some of the other guys will be able to rationalize this out, I'm kinda pooped tonight.

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October 11, 2003 9:09:36 AM

don't think anyone else's up~~ lolz

i gotta crash

laterz

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October 11, 2003 12:49:27 PM

*Pulls knife from drawer, cleverly sneak up to CS's bed while sound asleep, sinks blade into CS's throat*

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October 11, 2003 12:50:57 PM

Oh my Gosh, I had less than 4 hrs sleep!

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October 11, 2003 2:51:45 PM

Should you two using private message to trash talk instead of spamming forum? :tongue:
October 11, 2003 4:24:25 PM

They are using it to build up their post count.
October 11, 2003 4:48:22 PM

Maybe we got a little carried away. But Squirtle & I stayed more or less on topc considering that we were actually trying to resolve what seemed to be a graphics card issue, so I figure most of our posts in this thread are legitimate. THere was some small talk to some extent, but we stayed more or less on the topic of Graphics cards. But if y'all don't like it, I guess we could do it via PM. I just figured posting everything on the Forum would be the best way since someone could observe & catch any flaws we may have had in our troubleshooting & correct & thus CS's Graphics Card issue would be resolved MUCH faster.

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October 11, 2003 5:08:10 PM

Admit it you're just trying to get your post count up. :evil: 

How else could you make <i>Faithful</i> so quick! :tongue:



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October 11, 2003 5:12:12 PM

Yeah holy crap!!! I've been here alot longer than you and you've already surpassed me! Well, at least I have a life!
Oh wait...

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October 11, 2003 5:21:39 PM

Yeah, and just think I'm willing to bet he gets <i>Ancented Poser</i> before I do.

Oh, well gonna go out and see Kill Bill AGAIN! (this time with a group of people) So I can't stay and raise my post count TOO much. :wink:


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October 11, 2003 5:28:01 PM

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Yeah holy crap!!! I've been here alot longer than you and you've already surpassed me!

Let me set the time line straight. I've been around longer than either of your 2 :tongue: :


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02/18/03 09:10 AM - TheGreatGrapeApe Registered

So there :tongue: !

So Willamette, what was this "been here alot longer" that you were reffering to?

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October 11, 2003 5:45:24 PM

Bump?

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October 12, 2003 12:24:29 AM

post counts don't matter~ quality of the posts do!

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October 12, 2003 12:39:04 AM

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IMO, both post count and quality of post matters


True, but Quality of the Post should be a bigger variable than post count itself. davepermen had less than 400 posts here & he was very well respected.

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October 12, 2003 12:58:39 AM

Not by everyone.



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