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Preparing for upgrade GF3 Ti200 -> AIW 9800Pro?
Hi all,
I'm coming over from the dark side by replacing my GF3 Ti 200 with an AIW 9800 Pro. Any suggestions on how to get a clean upgrade and what drivers to use? System: P4 1.9Ghz 640 Meg Ram SB Audigy WinXP Pro TIA, P. |
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Upgrade your motherboard/processor/memory, first. If you go to an AIW 9800
pro, you will have wasted cash. The rest of your system is a major bottleneck. Going to a P4 2.4C and PC3200 DDR, for me, made my GF3 Ti200 the bottleneck. But, it was no slouch! Wasn't even necessary to upgrade my old Duron 950/PC100. But, it was noticable. I think that card, in your box, will be a waste of cash. Do the processor/motherboard and memory, first. You may find you don't even need to upgrade the video. But, you don't mention your uses...so, that's debatable. - Paul Grunwald stood up at show-n-tell, in , and said: Hi all, I'm coming over from the dark side by replacing my GF3 Ti 200 with an AIW 9800 Pro. Any suggestions on how to get a clean upgrade and what drivers to use? System: P4 1.9Ghz 640 Meg Ram SB Audigy WinXP Pro TIA, P. -- Strontium "It's no surprise, to me. I am my own worst enemy. `Cause every now, and then, I kick the livin' **** `outta me." - Lit |
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Actually depending on his motherboard he may be able to just upgrade the cpu
for now (relatively cheap) and get the new video card. A good compromise would be a new cpu and a 9800 non pro. JK "Strontium" wrote in message ... Upgrade your motherboard/processor/memory, first. If you go to an AIW 9800 pro, you will have wasted cash. The rest of your system is a major bottleneck. Going to a P4 2.4C and PC3200 DDR, for me, made my GF3 Ti200 the bottleneck. But, it was no slouch! Wasn't even necessary to upgrade my old Duron 950/PC100. But, it was noticable. I think that card, in your box, will be a waste of cash. Do the processor/motherboard and memory, first. You may find you don't even need to upgrade the video. But, you don't mention your uses...so, that's debatable. - Paul Grunwald stood up at show-n-tell, in , and said: Hi all, I'm coming over from the dark side by replacing my GF3 Ti 200 with an AIW 9800 Pro. Any suggestions on how to get a clean upgrade and what drivers to use? System: P4 1.9Ghz 640 Meg Ram SB Audigy WinXP Pro TIA, P. -- Strontium "It's no surprise, to me. I am my own worst enemy. `Cause every now, and then, I kick the livin' **** `outta me." - Lit |
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I'm not so sure. Adjusting the memory timings, on my memory, made a marked
difference. Let's not downplay the importance of memory/motherboard. In fact, after upgrading to a 9800XT and P4 3.0C, my motherboard IS a bottleneck at 865G chipset. But, like you said, depending on his motherboard... - John Hall stood up at show-n-tell, in .rogers.com, and said: Actually depending on his motherboard he may be able to just upgrade the cpu for now (relatively cheap) and get the new video card. A good compromise would be a new cpu and a 9800 non pro. JK "Strontium" wrote in message ... Upgrade your motherboard/processor/memory, first. If you go to an AIW 9800 pro, you will have wasted cash. The rest of your system is a major bottleneck. Going to a P4 2.4C and PC3200 DDR, for me, made my GF3 Ti200 the bottleneck. But, it was no slouch! Wasn't even necessary to upgrade my old Duron 950/PC100. But, it was noticable. I think that card, in your box, will be a waste of cash. Do the processor/motherboard and memory, first. You may find you don't even need to upgrade the video. But, you don't mention your uses...so, that's debatable. - Paul Grunwald stood up at show-n-tell, in , and said: Hi all, I'm coming over from the dark side by replacing my GF3 Ti 200 with an AIW 9800 Pro. Any suggestions on how to get a clean upgrade and what drivers to use? System: P4 1.9Ghz 640 Meg Ram SB Audigy WinXP Pro TIA, P. -- Strontium "It's no surprise, to me. I am my own worst enemy. `Cause every now, and then, I kick the livin' **** `outta me." - Lit -- Strontium "It's no surprise, to me. I am my own worst enemy. `Cause every now, and then, I kick the livin' **** `outta me." - Lit |
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Actually depending on his motherboard he may be able to just upgrade the cpu for now (relatively cheap) and get the new video card. A good compromise would be a new cpu and a 9800 non pro. JK Thanks for the input guys. I'm well aware that this card is worth more than the rest of my system combined. What I have exactly is a DFI Intel 845, Socket 423-based board running with PC133 memory. I'm maxed on processor speed at 1.95Ghz - it crashes with Nascar 2003 after 5 minutes if I crank it up higher than that. I think that I'm currently memory bound and not even processor bound hen it comes to frame rate on the GF# Ti200. The board and proc. were only a $160 upgrade late last year from a PIII 600Mhz/PC100 overclocked at 800/133. I am planning an upgrade of the motherboard, proc, and memory soon - perhaps before the end of the year. I'm trying to decide if I should try and crank up a P4 2.4c or get a 3.0 - I'm an Intel man. Motherboard selections are the Asus P4C800-E Deluxe or the ABit IC7-Max3. In either board I will prob. use the Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series 184 Pin (512MBx2) DDR PC-3200C2PT or the Kingston HyperX (Dual Pack) 184 Pin 1GB DDR PC-3200 (512MBx2) memory. Case will be either the Antec P160 or Sonata, cooler will be the Zalman 7000ALCu, PS will be either a Zalman or Enermax, etc. I've built my last 4 computers so I basic know what I'm doing - I've just been waiting for the next upgrade cycle. This card was just a good deal so I bought it first. I got a good deal on the AIW from Buy.com ($320 after rebate - techbargains.com rocks!) so I went for it, it will be here on Friday. What I'm looking for now is how to clean off the Detonators and install the Catalysts cleanly and painlessly, and what version of the ATI drivers I should use. Any help is appreciated! TIA, P. |
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save your money and buy an nvidia card, when DX9 games finally show
up. The ATI stuff is still suffering from terrible drivers and horrible support. |
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judge is jealous
dont listen to him ati is the best and we all know it all of us that has sense at least "Judge" wrote in message ... save your money and buy an nvidia card, when DX9 games finally show up. The ATI stuff is still suffering from terrible drivers and horrible support. |
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"matthew utt" wrote in news:%GTBb.117228
: judge is jealous dont listen to him ati is the best and we all know it all of us that has sense at least "Judge" wrote in message ... save your money and buy an nvidia card, when DX9 games finally show up. The ATI stuff is still suffering from terrible drivers and horrible support. Well.... Coke - Pepsi Bud - Miller Front - Rear Top - Bottom Older - Younger Blonde - Brunett (redhead?) Islam - Christanity (buddhism- ever hear of buddhist religious war? ...me neither) AMD - Intel Windows - Linux Gay - Straight Republican - Democrat Liberal - Conservative Green - whatever Did I forget any of the major ones? Anyway, I already purchased, my choice is made for the near future. If the card and drivers do indeed suck, look for it on eBay like many of my other unsatisfactory purchases. Frankly, I'm experimenting now. I have owned Nvidia based products since Voodoo went out of business but I got tired of the driver treadmill. I met some ATI guys out of Toronto when I worked on some Firewire products for Phillips a couple of years ago and thought I would give the AIW 9800 Pro a shot - they were a class act and I had a killer time at their WinHEC party in New Orleans! The AIW 9800Pro having component video out was the feature that sold me. If this card doesn't suit me but it works resonalble well, it will go in the home-theater PC in the living room after the Tivo hard drive dies again... ATI - Please support good linux drivers for MythTV! Anyway, I still have yet to have a straight answer to my orig. question. Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? P. |
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- Paul Grunwald stood up at show-n-tell, in , and said: Actually depending on his motherboard he may be able to just upgrade the cpu for now (relatively cheap) and get the new video card. A good compromise would be a new cpu and a 9800 non pro. JK Thanks for the input guys. I'm well aware that this card is worth more than the rest of my system combined. What I have exactly is a DFI Intel 845, Socket 423-based board running with PC133 memory. I'm maxed on processor speed at 1.95Ghz - it crashes with Nascar 2003 after 5 minutes if I crank it up higher than that. I think that I'm currently memory bound and not even processor bound hen it comes to frame rate on the GF# Ti200. The board and proc. were only a $160 upgrade late last year from a PIII 600Mhz/PC100 overclocked at 800/133. I am planning an upgrade of the motherboard, proc, and memory soon - perhaps before the end of the year. I'm trying to decide if I should try and crank up a P4 2.4c or get a 3.0 - I'm an Intel man. Motherboard selections are the Asus P4C800-E Deluxe or the ABit IC7-Max3. In either board I will prob. use the Corsair XMS Extreme Memory Speed Series 184 Pin (512MBx2) DDR PC-3200C2PT or the Kingston HyperX (Dual Pack) 184 Pin 1GB DDR PC-3200 (512MBx2) memory. Case will be either the Antec P160 or Sonata, cooler will be the Zalman 7000ALCu, PS will be either a Zalman or Enermax, etc. I've built my last 4 computers so I basic know what I'm doing - I've just been waiting for the next upgrade cycle. This card was just a good deal so I bought it first. I got a good deal on the AIW from Buy.com ($320 after rebate - techbargains.com rocks!) so I went for it, it will be here on Friday. What I'm looking for now is how to clean off the Detonators and install the Catalysts cleanly and painlessly, and what version of the ATI drivers I should use. Any help is appreciated! DriverCleaner. Do a Google. And, run Cab Cleaner, first. Good luck! TIA, P. -- Strontium "It's no surprise, to me. I am my own worst enemy. `Cause every now, and then, I kick the livin' **** `outta me." - Lit |
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Go away, troll.
Just cause you cannot learn to deal with your hardware....hahahahahaha You ****ing idiot. BLAH BLAH BLAH DORK! - Judge stood up at show-n-tell, in , and said: save your money and buy an nvidia card, when DX9 games finally show up. The ATI stuff is still suffering from terrible drivers and horrible support. -- Strontium "It's no surprise, to me. I am my own worst enemy. `Cause every now, and then, I kick the livin' **** `outta me." - Lit |
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