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Old January 26th 04, 01:32 PM
scott
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Default 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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Old January 26th 04, 09:12 PM
Chocolate
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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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Old January 27th 04, 06:38 AM
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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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Old January 27th 04, 12:55 PM
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
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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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