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It is a waste of time to try to put a cadilac of a video card on an 800 MHz
Processor. Such a motherboard is probably not a 8x AGP. If you do not have a 8X AGP port then dont get an 8X video card. You need a processor at least twice as fast. A Sapphire Radeon 9000 is 3 times as fast as a GTS video card. It might be a good replacement. I run one on an ASUS A7N8X motherboard with an XP2400+ and it runs great. "grendel" wrote in message ... I need to replace my GF2 GTS cause I'm pretty sure it has a heat problem and plus I'd like to upgrade for better 3D performance in games. I play the following games. Half-Life and GTA3. GTA3 seems to be very demanding. Although I do have only an 800 MHZ Athlon and 256 meg of RAM I assume the slowdown I get in GTA3 is because of a lack of video card performance. Anyway I'm debating the need for a DX9 video card. If there is not real need for a Directx9 video card for another year or 2 then I might as well upgrade to a GF4 ti 200. I'm still a little worried about ATI's drivers and the stuttering problems I have heard about. I could get an ATI 9700 non pro for $200 or a nice ti200 for $100. |
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On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:46:22 -0500, "Tiny Tim"
wrote: It is a waste of time to try to put a cadilac of a video card on an 800 MHz Processor. Such a motherboard is probably not a 8x AGP. If you do not have a 8X AGP port then dont get an 8X video card. Not true, 8X AGP makes VERY little difference. You need a processor at least twice as fast. A Sapphire Radeon 9000 is 3 times as fast as a GTS video card. It might be a good replacement. I run one on an ASUS A7N8X motherboard with an XP2400+ and it runs great. Hardly. a Radeon 9000 is only ~50% faster, not multiple times. It would take a minimum of a Radeon 9700 Pro to be 3X as fast. Dvae |
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:12:47 GMT, "grendel"
wrote: I need to replace my GF2 GTS cause I'm pretty sure it has a heat problem and plus I'd like to upgrade for better 3D performance in games. I play the following games. Half-Life and GTA3. GTA3 seems to be very demanding. Although I do have only an 800 MHZ Athlon and 256 meg of RAM I assume the slowdown I get in GTA3 is because of a lack of video card performance. Anyway I'm debating the need for a DX9 video card. If there is not real need for a Directx9 video card for another year or 2 then I might as well upgrade to a GF4 ti 200. I'm still a little worried about ATI's drivers and the stuttering problems I have heard about. I could get an ATI 9700 non pro for $200 or a nice ti200 for $100. i had a similar system with a duron 1200 and geforce2 . if you get this program http://www.tommti-systems.de/main-Dateien/files.html (you want the 3d analyze v2.16a file) and select force software T&L it will run twice as fast with no jerkyness or anything and no loss of image quality that i could notice. just another option untill you get a new card. |
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In 4 months of running 512mb and no swap file in XP Pro, the one and only
'out of memory' I had was a single session with this game. It's got to be the worst conversion EVER, but I still prefer it as a game to the sequel (even though VC runs great). "Zink" wrote in message ... "kony" wrote : Uhhhhh, i didn't write that, the OP did. whoops ^___^ However, it's extremely unusual for any game to need, significantly benefit from a system having over 512MB of memory. 1 gb of RAM always helps in a game like GTA3 that has ram leaks. Try it ! It runs very smooth with 1 gb. Of course you need a decent processor and videocard too. |
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"kony" wrote in message
... On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:46:22 -0500, "Tiny Tim" wrote: It is a waste of time to try to put a cadilac of a video card on an 800 MHz Processor. Such a motherboard is probably not a 8x AGP. If you do not have a 8X AGP port then dont get an 8X video card. Not true, 8X AGP makes VERY little difference. You need a processor at least twice as fast. A Sapphire Radeon 9000 is 3 times as fast as a GTS video card. It might be a good replacement. I run one on an ASUS A7N8X motherboard with an XP2400+ and it runs great. Hardly. a Radeon 9000 is only ~50% faster, not multiple times. It would take a minimum of a Radeon 9700 Pro to be 3X as fast. Dvae I agree, Tiny Tim is talking ******** about 9000s being 3 times as fast. My 8500 (faster than a 9000) gives about 9300 in 3d mark 2001, and my GF2 Ti gave just under 5000. Not even twice as fast, but a huge improvement. To be fair though, I do get 3 times the score in 3d mark 03, but that's mainly because my GF2 is only allowed to do one test 'cos its DX7! |
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