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Which Nvidia card should I buy?
OS: Win98 and XP (on two separate drives) CPU: AMD XP1800 MB: Shuttle Monitor: Daewoo 19" 905D I currently own a Nvidia FX 5200 by Megaspeed (MS). I bought it because it was very cheap and I wanted to test the waters, as it were. If I upgrade from here, which Nvidia should I buy? I might could afford around $300+ (I would have to sell allot of stuff on ebay first, LOL). I am used to the ATI Radeon 9700, but because it has no Stereo-3D support I'm probably going to be selling it (I actually downgraded to the Nvidia FX 5200 so I could test Stereo-3D). So, is the GeForce FX series the one I want? That is, should I just shoot for the highest FX model I can afford? Is the GeForce FX 5900 the best nvidia for consumers? (All the other models on the nvidia site didn't look like they were for game playing or regular consumers). Is the FX 5200 so inferior that I should upgrade now? Or just wait for the next Nvidia offering? Thanks for any info.........Sam |
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I'd look at something around the FX 5600 Ultra if you can swing around $300.
The 5900 is definitely a kick-butt video card. Benchmarks be damned, it's lightning fast and it's drivers are very stable; the ATi card is definitely fast, I'll give it that but the drivers are an absolute crap-shoot. Sometimes the ATi drivers are good, other times they'll make you want to kill yourself with all the problems. If you want the 3D glasses, nVidia is definitely the way to go, and the 5600 Ultra with the v2 version of the chip is definitely a stellar performer. The Prolink 5600 Gold Limited (something like that, it's definitely the longest name for a video card I've ever seen) and the Albatron received good marks from several reviews for speed and features; and you should be able to stay under that $300 cap. If you'd really rather stick around $200, the GeForce FX 5200 Ultra is not a bad card. I can get 3DMark2001SE scores of 11000+ with them every time, and playing Neverwinter Nights, UT 2003 and Freelancer with one is as good or better than my old Ti4600, plus I get DirectX9 and OpenGL 1.3 support in hardware. I'm NOT saying that benchmark framerates are as high as with the Ti4600, but the video is definitely comparable and honestly I notice no difference on my son's Athlon XP 2500+ system. I have not tried it on an XP 1800+ CPU, but it works very nicely on P4 2.8C, 3.06, 3.0 and Athlon XP 2500 processors - especially for under $200. Ron wrote in message ... OS: Win98 and XP (on two separate drives) CPU: AMD XP1800 MB: Shuttle Monitor: Daewoo 19" 905D I currently own a Nvidia FX 5200 by Megaspeed (MS). I bought it because it was very cheap and I wanted to test the waters, as it were. If I upgrade from here, which Nvidia should I buy? I might could afford around $300+ (I would have to sell allot of stuff on ebay first, LOL). I am used to the ATI Radeon 9700, but because it has no Stereo-3D support I'm probably going to be selling it (I actually downgraded to the Nvidia FX 5200 so I could test Stereo-3D). So, is the GeForce FX series the one I want? That is, should I just shoot for the highest FX model I can afford? Is the GeForce FX 5900 the best nvidia for consumers? (All the other models on the nvidia site didn't look like they were for game playing or regular consumers). Is the FX 5200 so inferior that I should upgrade now? Or just wait for the next Nvidia offering? Thanks for any info.........Sam |
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