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Building a New System - Use Onboard Video or Existing GeForce3 Video Card?
I am building a new system with the Epox 8RGA+, AMD XP 2500+ w/Barton Core, 512 MB 3200 DDR ram (2 - 256MB sticks which will give me the dual channel feature) . I have a two year old 64MB ASUS GeForce 3 that I have loved since it's install. My question is: Would I get better performance assigning 64 or 128MB of my 512 to the onboard GeForce 4MX part of the motherboard or should I use my trusty old GeForce3 card? Thanks for any input.. Rick |
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Your GeForce 3 is superior to the NForce video card. Check out the August
issue of Maximum PC, where they do a head-to-head with integrated video (NForce 2 included). BTW, a GeForce 4 MX is not a GeForce 4 class GPU. It is a GeForce 2 class GPU. Your GeForce 3 supports Direct X 8 features, and the NForce 2 video only supports Direct X 7 features. Good luck... Rich S. "Rick Cathey" wrote in message ... I am building a new system with the Epox 8RGA+, AMD XP 2500+ w/Barton Core, 512 MB 3200 DDR ram (2 - 256MB sticks which will give me the dual channel feature) . I have a two year old 64MB ASUS GeForce 3 that I have loved since it's install. My question is: Would I get better performance assigning 64 or 128MB of my 512 to the onboard GeForce 4MX part of the motherboard or should I use my trusty old GeForce3 card? Thanks for any input.. Rick |
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Definately, i have a the same board, it sucks compared to the G3, i have to
overclock it and it doesn't come close. "Lester Piglet" wrote in message ... Rick Cathey wrote: I am building a new system with the Epox 8RGA+, AMD XP 2500+ w/Barton Core, 512 MB 3200 DDR ram (2 - 256MB sticks which will give me the dual channel feature) . I have a two year old 64MB ASUS GeForce 3 that I have loved since it's install. My question is: Would I get better performance assigning 64 or 128MB of my 512 to the onboard GeForce 4MX part of the motherboard or should I use my trusty old GeForce3 card? Thanks for any input.. Rick -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- The GF3 is much much better. |
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 02:46:10 GMT, "Ted Bealmear"
wrote: Why waste your system memory on a lesser preforming card? Use the system memory for the system and use the video card memory for the video card. You will get a lot better preformance. Ted its ONBoaRD the motherboard... Or he can save some bucks and get an NFORCE without video -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
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Thanks to all that replied. I was leaning toward sticking with my standalone card so my old trusty GeForce 3 card it will be!! Rick |
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