What card

[Telicus]

Hey I just spent all my money on my mobo cpu and ram

Asus p4t
p4 1.5
2x 64 pc 800 no ecc rdram

I don’t have much for a video card now and I need as good as I can get for the money I can get considering my 3d prophets fan fell off just last week and killed my card and my mobo. I am seeing all these 40 50 60$ cards like the Geforce2 MX200 64MB that is about $51 anyone have any suggestions on what cheep card to buy it kills me to say that I hate going cheep on 3d.


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[rcf84]

Radeon 32mb DDR For $75 of <A HREF="http://www.newegg.com" target="_new">http://www.newegg.com</A>. Is you best choice. GF2 MX400 is trash.

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[flamethrower205]

Get a 32MB GF2 GTS- on pricewatch it's 83$. Much better performance than Radeon.

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[Crashman]

Hmm, I wonder why I have my GTS setitng on my desk and my Radeon in my machine?

Back to you Tom...

 

[FatBurger]

I'm so sick of all the Radeon vs. GeForce crap. Both cards are good. Radeon has better image quality, GeForce has better frame rates. There, done. End of story.

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[Crashman]

Actually I'm using the Radeon because it has TVO. The GTS is only about 10% faster. But if it had TVO I'd be using it.

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[Guest]

plus, radeon have more dx8 support

 

[rcf84]

Lets Play Giants. Doesnt a Radeon 64mb VIVO give the GF3 one hell of a task.

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[SerArthurDayne]

Ignore the ATI fans... A geforce 2 GTS is your best bet for gaming performance/price.

Considering a 90 dollar GTS can thwomp a 150 dollar Radeon 64 in everything but super high resolutions (which nobody uses anyway), it is the best bang for your buck right now. If you pick your card wisely, you can also overclock it far past Pro levels - My GTS has been running highly overclocked for 8 or 9 months straight now. I dunno how long you can afford to wait, but in a month or less the Geforce3 Titanium line and the Radeon 8500's will be out, which should drive down prices all around.

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[Guest]

Ignore nvidia fans!

considering an 70 US$ 64 MBs ram kyro 2 video card can beat a GEforce 2 GTS where it matter (high resolutions (more than 800x600), 32 bit)



<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by jabbamerda on 09/22/01 04:21 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[flamethrower205]

It a Kyro can tie a GTS. It's a good card but, of course, puts more strain on your processor (noT&L). That's a turnoff imo. Go for the GTS.

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[Guest]

well considering that in some 3dmark2001 scenes software T&L is getting more score than with T&L..

for me is like this :

T&L is a marketing xxxx that provides sells for nvidia chips..
there are no games that trully exploits T&L .
there are things more importnat than T&L (like bandwidth) what is the use to be able to have 300 fps on 640x480x16 if it can't provide better results than a non T&L card in 1024x768x32 ?
I don't care if my cpu is more stressed ... if I am guetting better results than you


not forgeting that in 1280x1024 kyro 2d isn't all blured like most geforce cards..


<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by jabbamerda on 09/24/01 04:45 PM.</EM></FONT></P>