"Steve Vai" wrote in message
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finally upgraded my vid card to a ti4200, but it's pretty damn weak!
either something is seriously amiss with my system or the card blows,
i'd like to think it's my system.


It's the card.

system: T-bred A @ 1800mhz
768meg ram on 150mhz fsb
soyo dragon platinum kt333
WD 80 gig, 200 gig
MSI Geforce4 TI4200 64meg not OC'd yet (was running geforce2 mx400
64meg)
sb live value
using onboard nic
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3Dmark 2003
sco 1757
wings of fury: 116.6 FPS
battle of proxycon: 10.8FPS (wtf?)
trolls lair: 10.8FPS (again wtf?)
cpu test 1: 41.4 fps
cpu test 2: 8.0 fps
fill rate single texturing: 674.3 m/texels
multi-texturing: 1736 m/texels
vertex shader: 5.1 fps
ragtroll: 5.9 fps (triple wtf?)

didnt run sound tests... is this about right? i'm starting to wonder
what the fx5900 ultra would run.

It'll run you about $500...and not much else.

after oc'ing it to 300/590 i got 1965, this is all at 800x600.
hopefully the barton will kick it in the ass

Not likely. Instead you should derail your one track mind and come on over
to the dark (light) side.