G force 2 or G force 4

[Flatcat1]

Hey guys i was wondering which card would be better for playing doom3 a Gainward G force 2 pro 450 64DDR or a G force 4 mx440se,i know neither of these card are really adequate to play doom3 but ya its all i have got.Your help would be greatly appreciated

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[Mr5oh]

Have you thought about maybe a TI series card? Maybe either a TI4200, or maybe picking up a used TI-4600 or a TI-4400. The TI cards would run Doom3 pretty good, and wouldn't cost you very much at all. A TI-4400 can be picked up on eBay for $15-30.

Out of the two I would lean towards the GeForce 4, MX440SE

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[dhlucke]

That gainward card (I had one), overclocks like crazy. I'd say that one.

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[dhlucke]

mx440se

Engine Clock:250MHz
RAMDAC:350MHz

vs.
250/400 out of the box which you'll probably be able to get to 250/500 easily. I think I had mine at 270/505.


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[Flatcat1]

Ok thanks man which software must i use to do that

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[pauldh]

Just enable coolbits in the registry to unlock the NV overclocking utility:

run regedit then go to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak]

create a new DWORD called CoolBits with a value of 3



This registry patcher download will do it for you if you are uncomforatable with regedit.
<A HREF="http://download.guru3d.com/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=201" target="_new">http://download.guru3d.com/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=201</A>

Note: I have not used this on the newest drivers to see if it still works. Anyone else know?


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[Flatcat1]

Just to add to my question which card would produce a better image quilty

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[Mr5oh]

Image quality? They will both have the same picture quality, one will just be capable of more FPS than the other in games and such.

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[cleeve]

Both of those cards are DirectX 7 cards.

If you want to play Doom on the cheap, get yourself a DirectX 8 card at least... it'll help alot with the shadows & such.

A cheap Geforce3 Ti 200/500 from ebay would be much better than a Geforce4 MX, and a cheap Geforce4 Ti 4200 would be even better than that... the 4200 is the best way to Doom3 on the cheap.

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[gossspel]

dude! i have absolutely no idea about getting a ti4400 on ebay for 15-30 us dollars, the lowest I saw was about 50-60 dollars.

 

[Mr5oh]

They seem to go in streaks, I personally was watching for a while for a spare computer, and saw quite a few go for $30 or so. They have recently gone up a little, might keep watching see what happens. This was about a month ago when I was looking. Obvisuly on eBay there are high and lows, so keep an eye out.

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