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Replacement for NVidia Ti4200
Hi,
My GF4 Ti4200 has broken and they want mucho money to fix it (it's just over a year old!). So, what is around at the moment that is a good replacement. I don't want to spend massive amounts of money, but I would like something that is at least as good as a Ti4200. I have an XP1800 processor, would it be worth upgrading that at the same time to get some real benefit? Cheers Scott |
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I'm surprised the warranty is so short.
My preference would be the Crucial ATI9600Pro, or the 9800Pro if you can afford it. |
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The 9800 Pro's are dropping in price, and a newer AMD CPU wouldn't set you
back too far. I just recently upgraded from my Ti4200 to a 9800 Pro, and replaced my Athlon T-Bird 1400 with an AthlonXP 2800+. It was well worth it. If you do decide to upgrade, you might also want to think about getting faster RAM (though you never said which you had, if you buy one of the newer AMD CPUs you'll probably want at least PC2700 to be able to use 333MHz FSB). "scott" wrote in message ... Hi, My GF4 Ti4200 has broken and they want mucho money to fix it (it's just over a year old!). So, what is around at the moment that is a good replacement. I don't want to spend massive amounts of money, but I would like something that is at least as good as a Ti4200. I have an XP1800 processor, would it be worth upgrading that at the same time to get some real benefit? Cheers Scott |
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Venadium wrote:
The 9800 Pro's are dropping in price, and a newer AMD CPU wouldn't set you back too far. I just recently upgraded from my Ti4200 to a 9800 Pro, and replaced my Athlon T-Bird 1400 with an AthlonXP 2800+. It was well worth it. If you do decide to upgrade, you might also want to think about getting faster RAM (though you never said which you had, if you buy one of the newer AMD CPUs you'll probably want at least PC2700 to be able to use 333MHz FSB). Thanks for the info. I think I already have PC2700 ram, I remember buying the best I could when I upgraded last year, but I will check. Yeah, the Ti4200 is just being rubbish, I think the RAM has corrupted or something because after few minutes of playing 3D games lots of random triangles start to appear, this gradually gets worse and worse, then the machine reboots. Also, in windows, when playing video clips, sometimes the screen will go black for a second, then come back to normal but with a corrupted rectangle at some point on the screen. It will do this a couple of times, then the machine reboots. The 9800 Pro looks good, but a bit expensive for me. Here in the UK a 9800SE is about £125 ($225), how does that compare to the Pro version or different cards? Any good US sites that will ship to the UK? Cheers scott "scott" wrote in message ... Hi, My GF4 Ti4200 has broken and they want mucho money to fix it (it's just over a year old!). So, what is around at the moment that is a good replacement. I don't want to spend massive amounts of money, but I would like something that is at least as good as a Ti4200. I have an XP1800 processor, would it be worth upgrading that at the same time to get some real benefit? Cheers Scott |
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Andrew MacPherson wrote:
In article , (scott) wrote: Here in the UK a 9800SE is about £125 FWIW I'd stump up the extra money and fork out about £220 for a 128Mb 9800Pro. My (second hand) 9700Pro in my main games box is superb and performs much better than the 9800se in this machine. I was never a fan of spending more than £100 on vid cards because they lose value so quickly, but the top end ATI kit is very impressive with x4fsaa & high aniso in *everything* at high resolutions. I think it'll be money well spent when Doom3 & HL2 hit the streets... *if* they ever hit the streets :-) Andrew McP Hmmm, what would be better though, an XP1800 with 9800pro, or XP2800 with 9800SE? I just want to be able to play the games I have already, although higher FPS and the ability to play the new games would be good. |
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"scott" wrote in message ... Andrew MacPherson wrote: In article , (scott) wrote: Here in the UK a 9800SE is about £125 FWIW I'd stump up the extra money and fork out about £220 for a 128Mb 9800Pro. My (second hand) 9700Pro in my main games box is superb and performs much better than the 9800se in this machine. I was never a fan of spending more than £100 on vid cards because they lose value so quickly, but the top end ATI kit is very impressive with x4fsaa & high aniso in *everything* at high resolutions. I think it'll be money well spent when Doom3 & HL2 hit the streets... *if* they ever hit the streets :-) Andrew McP Hmmm, what would be better though, an XP1800 with 9800pro, or XP2800 with 9800SE? I just want to be able to play the games I have already, although higher FPS and the ability to play the new games would be good. Am I right in saying that the CPU will be hit hardest by HL2? (September release now BTW) |
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