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Old August 3rd 03, 12:00 AM
Mitchua
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"~misfit~" wrote in message
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"booster" wrote in message
le.rogers.com...
that 4200 price is very cheap and looks like a poor performer. you

certainly
won't get the benchmark scores you see for the normal priced ti4200s. If
price is a limiting factor then just go with the 5200. it doesn't sound
like you want the fastest graphics card, just a technologically better

but
lower end of the faster cards 5600+,9600+, and so on. The 5200 is faster
than the r9000 though. If you're going get a radeon get a 9200 at least


I disagree. A ti4200 is a ti4200 regardles of who makes it. It will have

the
same nVidia GPU as any other ti4200 and should perform similarly. nVidia

do
exercise a certain amount of control over what happens with their GPUs. I

am
very happy with my ti4200. It's a Leadtek but if I could have found a
no-name one significantly cheaper without the software package that I'll
never use I would have bought it.
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From what I've read, the generic makers do need to use certain standards of
components. They can't just put on DDR with half the Mhz. Asus has
improved on the design but the basic 4200ti is still better than a fx5200,
right? I don't buy into that DX9.0 hype...yet :-)

--Mitchua