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Geforce4Ti or Geforce FX 5200 ?
Hello,
I apologize in advance if this question has been asked before. I asked my friend who works for a computer shop for a GF4Ti card but he passed me a Asus V9520 Magic FX5200 - DDR 128MB card - US$80. I have a PIII 850, Asus motherboard, 512MB RAM, SBLive sound card and a GeForce2MX 32mb card, Windows 2000Pro - latest drivers etc. Its a stable system and I don't have any significant problems. It plays some of the latest games like Mechwarrior 4 quite OK. Having a bit of problems playing Unreal2 though. I don't want to buy a whole new system just yet. So I thought of upgrading my grapics card. Before I go and exchange my card, what would be the best card for my system? Thank you in advance!! Cheers, Alita |
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" m wrote in message ... Hello, I apologize in advance if this question has been asked before. I asked my friend who works for a computer shop for a GF4Ti card but he passed me a Asus V9520 Magic FX5200 - DDR 128MB card - US$80. I have a PIII 850, Asus motherboard, 512MB RAM, SBLive sound card and a GeForce2MX 32mb card, Windows 2000Pro - latest drivers etc. Its a stable system and I don't have any significant problems. It plays some of the latest games like Mechwarrior 4 quite OK. Having a bit of problems playing Unreal2 though. I don't want to buy a whole new system just yet. So I thought of upgrading my grapics card. Before I go and exchange my card, what would be the best card for my system? ATI 9500 128 meg softmodded to 9700...still you're CPU-bound at any rate (not with that MX ;-) ) If you're stuck on Nvidia (some people are), the GF4 might be a better choice. The FX 5200 is actually slower in many instances (it's really just a GF4 MX replacement), the only things it brings to the table is DX9 and marginally better 3dMark 03 scores (at the expense of lossless color and Z-compression, BTW the AA and aniso performance fall miserably flat compared to the ATI card). Whoopee. That Asus mobo might be able to be upgraded to a Tualatin Celeron 1.1. So far every one of them I've seen will run @ 133 MHz FSB, and they make great upgrades for many old Slot One and non-Tualatin mobos with a cheap adaptor from www.strattoncomputer.com . I can vouch for the Slot T. I've gone thru a few of them. One was in a Dell Dimension XPS R400 (Intel BX board), which is now a R1400...total parts cost $70 for the Celly 1400 retail and Slot T. BIOS ID's it as a PPro 500, OS ID's it correctly, and it works fine. If you have a Socket 370 mobo that is not Tualatin compatible, there is a socket adaptor as well. As always, make sure your mobo is on the compatibility list if this is the path you choose to take, and you might need a BIOS flash to ensure full compatibility. It will likely extend the usable lifespan of your Asus mobo for another year or so, memory bandwidth bottleneck notwithstanding. I have a later revision P2B-F/Slot T/1.1 Celly at 1460 with a GF3 and a $30 Highpoint Rocket 133 dual-channel IDE controller on the LAN here. Works great...with multiple OSes no less...worked with a GF4, too before it got swapped into another box. |
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on a p3 850 you wont see a difference because the cpu will restrict both
" m wrote in message ... Hello, I apologize in advance if this question has been asked before. I asked my friend who works for a computer shop for a GF4Ti card but he passed me a Asus V9520 Magic FX5200 - DDR 128MB card - US$80. I have a PIII 850, Asus motherboard, 512MB RAM, SBLive sound card and a GeForce2MX 32mb card, Windows 2000Pro - latest drivers etc. Its a stable system and I don't have any significant problems. It plays some of the latest games like Mechwarrior 4 quite OK. Having a bit of problems playing Unreal2 though. I don't want to buy a whole new system just yet. So I thought of upgrading my grapics card. Before I go and exchange my card, what would be the best card for my system? Thank you in advance!! Cheers, Alita |
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"Dave" wrote in message
newsz3La.36711$Bg.16940@rwcrnsc54... Hello Dave, Thanks for your thoughful reply! Ya, I'm a little worried that my P3-850 would constrict the flow. But your ideas sound good and I'll give them a go. I only hope that the P3-850 would not be such an impedement. |
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" m wrote in message news "Dave" wrote in message newsz3La.36711$Bg.16940@rwcrnsc54... Hello Dave, Thanks for your thoughful reply! Ya, I'm a little worried that my P3-850 would constrict the flow. But your ideas sound good and I'll give them a go. I only hope that the P3-850 would not be such an impedement. The P3 will not stress either card very much, but when you do upgrade, a gf4ti4200 is a better choice than any of the FX cards except the 5900 and 5900 ultra, but those are a lot more money. I would get a ti4200 and an AMD barton chip and motherboard. You would be smoking then. |
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Not entirely true. The ti4200 comes in at about the same speed as a FX5600.
A FX5600 Ultra or higher will beat it. Also, all of the FX cards have DX9 features. The ti4200 does not. Dave "SL" wrote in message news:7IlLa.172475$eJ2.145966@fed1read07... " m wrote in message news "Dave" wrote in message newsz3La.36711$Bg.16940@rwcrnsc54... Hello Dave, Thanks for your thoughful reply! Ya, I'm a little worried that my P3-850 would constrict the flow. But your ideas sound good and I'll give them a go. I only hope that the P3-850 would not be such an impedement. The P3 will not stress either card very much, but when you do upgrade, a gf4ti4200 is a better choice than any of the FX cards except the 5900 and 5900 ultra, but those are a lot more money. I would get a ti4200 and an AMD barton chip and motherboard. You would be smoking then. |
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