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Geforce 5700
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I'm going to be asking what might appear to be some dumb questions. What's the difference between a FX5700 and an FX5700-Ultra? I'm looking for a mid-range card, and in the UK I've seen the ultra for £113. |
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:34:29 -0000, "Graeme"
wrote: Hi I'm going to be asking what might appear to be some dumb questions. What's the difference between a FX5700 and an FX5700-Ultra? I'm looking for a mid-range card, and in the UK I've seen the ultra for £113. You'll have to consider the specific card in addition, some have better (or worse) heatsinks, quiet or quite loud fans, heatsinks on the memory or not... it's similar to the past, choosing a Geforce TI4200 or TI4400, except there's less price difference "usually" to choose an ultra over a non-ultra. The ultra is a longer card (usually, following a reference design), requiring a motherboard that doesn't put anything in the way behind the AGP slot for an extra few centimeters. It has better power supply circuitry and "should" have better heatsink or at least heatsinks on the memory. This would also allow it to overclock a bit higher, perhaps have a longer lifespan though hindsight is better than foresight when it comes to lifespan.. too many variables involved. As for performance, the ultra is clocked around 50MHz faster, perhaps faster memory too, could be a 10% performance boost if the rest of the system is fast enough, but it can come down to the specific cards what happens when they're both overclocked, that is if you're willing to put memory heatsinks on the non-ultra yourself the difference may dissappear but likely the ultra will have memory still capable of higher speed so better for high-resolutions. Dave |
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"kony" wrote in message
... On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:34:29 -0000, "Graeme" wrote: Hi I'm going to be asking what might appear to be some dumb questions. What's the difference between a FX5700 and an FX5700-Ultra? I'm looking for a mid-range card, and in the UK I've seen the ultra for £113. You'll have to consider the specific card in addition, some have better (or worse) heatsinks, quiet or quite loud fans, heatsinks on the memory or not... it's similar to the past, choosing a Geforce TI4200 or TI4400, except there's less price difference "usually" to choose an ultra over a non-ultra. The ultra is a longer card (usually, following a reference design), requiring a motherboard that doesn't put anything in the way behind the AGP slot for an extra few centimeters. It has better power supply circuitry and "should" have better heatsink or at least heatsinks on the memory. This would also allow it to overclock a bit higher, perhaps have a longer lifespan though hindsight is better than foresight when it comes to lifespan.. too many variables involved. As for performance, the ultra is clocked around 50MHz faster, perhaps faster memory too, could be a 10% performance boost if the rest of the system is fast enough, but it can come down to the specific cards what happens when they're both overclocked, that is if you're willing to put memory heatsinks on the non-ultra yourself the difference may dissappear but likely the ultra will have memory still capable of higher speed so better for high-resolutions. Dave Thanks Dave. Where do you find out this information? Are there some benchmarks that compare the old Geforce4 with the newer boards (5200, 56, 57, etc)? |
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:59:47 -0000, "Graeme"
wrote: Thanks Dave. Where do you find out this information? Are there some benchmarks that compare the old Geforce4 with the newer boards (5200, 56, 57, etc)? I find it here, there, everywhere... there isn't any website I'm aware of that does a direct comparison of the finer points, just benchmark results which should be easily found doing a Google search. If you're familiar with the cards you can also tell a lot by the pictures. Website reviews and Newegg.com generally provide the best pictures. Unfortunately it's quite hard to determine the relative fan noise without two cards side-by-side to do a subjective first-person test. If the fan is the typical cheap, small sleeve-bearing type the odds are good it'll fail within a year or so, makes it more important to have a heatsink that accepts a standard fan or some ingenuity to adapt some other fan or fan-sink combo. As for the FX vs TI cards, a TI4200 would be preferred over an FX5200, but any higher (than 5200) FX card is a better choice, better value (usually) than a TI card. If you're buying a mid-to-high end card it ought to have DirectX 9 support too, which the TI cards don't. Dave |
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"kony" wrote in message ... On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:59:47 -0000, "Graeme" wrote: Thanks Dave. Where do you find out this information? Are there some benchmarks that compare the old Geforce4 with the newer boards (5200, 56, 57, etc)? I find it here, there, everywhere... there isn't any website I'm aware of that does a direct comparison of the finer points, just benchmark results which should be easily found doing a Google search. If you're familiar with the cards you can also tell a lot by the pictures. Website reviews and Newegg.com generally provide the best pictures. Unfortunately it's quite hard to determine the relative fan noise without two cards side-by-side to do a subjective first-person test. If the fan is the typical cheap, small sleeve-bearing type the odds are good it'll fail within a year or so, makes it more important to have a heatsink that accepts a standard fan or some ingenuity to adapt some other fan or fan-sink combo. As for the FX vs TI cards, a TI4200 would be preferred over an FX5200, but any higher (than 5200) FX card is a better choice, better value (usually) than a TI card. If you're buying a mid-to-high end card it ought to have DirectX 9 support too, which the TI cards don't. Thanks again for the reply Dave. There certainly is a lot of info out there, maybe too much for me! Of course, that's why this newsgroup is so valulable. I'm just about to get a P4@3GHz system (well two actually), and am trying to choose a mid-range graphics card. Most of the time it will be for simple stuff (used at work), but after hours it'll be doing Quake, Doom, HalfLife, etc. I had thought that the FX5700Ultra would be my best bet, but then I think there may be a tricky decision to be made between this and the ATI9600XT (which is about the same price). That stupid fairy tempted me toward to nVidia stuff, but if the ATI range is better, then I'll dump here ;-) I've seen benchmarks that show the 5700 is better than the 9600 (with current gaming technology), but would the 9600 be a better 'investment' when new games arrive? |
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On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 10:45:07 -0000, "Graeme"
wrote: "kony" wrote in message .. . On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:59:47 -0000, "Graeme" wrote: Thanks Dave. Where do you find out this information? Are there some benchmarks that compare the old Geforce4 with the newer boards (5200, 56, 57, etc)? I find it here, there, everywhere... there isn't any website I'm aware of that does a direct comparison of the finer points, just benchmark results which should be easily found doing a Google search. If you're familiar with the cards you can also tell a lot by the pictures. Website reviews and Newegg.com generally provide the best pictures. Unfortunately it's quite hard to determine the relative fan noise without two cards side-by-side to do a subjective first-person test. If the fan is the typical cheap, small sleeve-bearing type the odds are good it'll fail within a year or so, makes it more important to have a heatsink that accepts a standard fan or some ingenuity to adapt some other fan or fan-sink combo. As for the FX vs TI cards, a TI4200 would be preferred over an FX5200, but any higher (than 5200) FX card is a better choice, better value (usually) than a TI card. If you're buying a mid-to-high end card it ought to have DirectX 9 support too, which the TI cards don't. Thanks again for the reply Dave. There certainly is a lot of info out there, maybe too much for me! Of course, that's why this newsgroup is so valulable. I'm just about to get a P4@3GHz system (well two actually), and am trying to choose a mid-range graphics card. Most of the time it will be for simple stuff (used at work), but after hours it'll be doing Quake, Doom, HalfLife, etc. I had thought that the FX5700Ultra would be my best bet, but then I think there may be a tricky decision to be made between this and the ATI9600XT (which is about the same price). That stupid fairy tempted me toward to nVidia stuff, but if the ATI range is better, then I'll dump here ;-) I've seen benchmarks that show the 5700 is better than the 9600 (with current gaming technology), but would the 9600 be a better 'investment' when new games arrive? Always buy a card for what you want to play now, there's no such thing as a future-proof video card unless you pay a premium for an extra year's use. Either are good cards, I'm partial to the ATI hardware but the nVidia drivers, there's good reason people can argue about which are better but it usually just results in flame wars... read some reviews and pick what you feel suits you best. Dave |
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