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Radeon 8500LE 128MB Vs Ti4200 128MB

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December 12, 2002 10:01:11 PM

I brought a Inno savage2000 graphics card about 2 months ago, simply because it was cheap (£35 at the time). As it turns out its crap so avoid it like the plague.
So I'm going to fork out some decent cash for a proper card either a 8500 or a ti4200 after Christmas. They retail for around the £90 mark. The 8500 is a little bit less but the 4200 is a bit faster ( I think).
I have a PIII 900, 128mb running Windows 2000pro.
Any advice would be gratefully received.

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December 12, 2002 10:09:19 PM

Buy GeForce4 Ti4200 64 MB instead of Radeon 8500LE 128 MB. And price difference between GF4 Ti4200 and Radeon 9500 Pro 128 MB is not much but Radeon 9500 is a much better buy.

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December 13, 2002 1:04:52 AM

yeah if you think you can make the price leap to a 9500pro, i'd go ahead and do that because you'll be directx 9 compatible and will be able to run anisotropic 8x and 4x AA with much better results(are you a gamer at all? i guess i'm assuming yes...). DX9 games aren't out yet (AFAIK) but the card will remain fairly current for a while that way

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December 13, 2002 10:54:44 AM

With your processor, I think its a waste of money to get the ti4200. The cpu will bottleneck the video card so there isn't any point in forking out the extra cash. Then again it depends on how much extra the ti4200 is. In America its about an extra $50 more. Which I don't think its worth it. The price difference in England might be smaller. If its really small go for the ti4200, if its big get the 8500.

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December 13, 2002 10:54:45 AM

With your processor, I think its a waste of money to get the ti4200. The cpu will bottleneck the video card so there isn't any point in forking out the extra cash. Then again it depends on how much extra the ti4200 is. In America its about an extra $50 more. Which I don't think its worth it. The price difference in England might be smaller. If its really small go for the ti4200, if its big get the 8500.

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December 14, 2002 12:56:06 AM

IMHO, the card you choose really depends on one thing: when do you plan on upgrading the rest of the system?

If you don't plan or see yourself doing it in the near future (at least not in the next 6 months or more) then you should probably go for the Ti4200.

But if you do plan on upgrading in that time-frame, it is probably a better idea to go for the 9500pro, so that when you do upgrade, the video card isn't your bottleneck and so you don't have to go out and buy a new card again to remove that bottleneck.

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December 16, 2002 11:38:09 PM

The 64MB 8500 full version OEM comes at exactly the same clock rate as the retail card, and much faster clock rate than the LE. In addition, most LE cards come with slower memory and can't be overclocked to match an overclocked full version card. There are even 5.5ns 128MB LE cards, a memory speed only rated for 200MHz!

You'll need the extra speed before you need the extra RAM, I'd suggest the OEM full version 8500 64MB.

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