Author Topic: Any previous Ultra TNT2 owners now using GEFORCE 2-32 meg card? (Read 726 times)

Ripsnort · « **on:** March 12, 2001, 11:41:00 AM »

...just wondering if I could expect a better improvement on FR going from an Ultra TNT2-32 meg card to a 2-32 meg card?

Animal · « **Reply #1 on:** March 12, 2001, 12:15:00 PM »

*RAISES HAND*

YES, TRUST ME YOU WILL

Unless you are using a 300mhz cpu or something very slow

Ripsnort · « **Reply #2 on:** March 12, 2001, 12:21:00 PM »

Using a P550...still think I will get improvement? (256K PC100 ram too)

Staga · « **Reply #3 on:** March 12, 2001, 12:40:00 PM »

Celeron 450 & TNT2 Ultra gave me ~35fps

PIII 700 & TNT2 Ultra gave about 45fps

PIII 700 & Prophet2 MX give about 60-70fps

With OC'd cpu and vid.card 80-90fps

All 1024*768 with 32bit colors

Fishu · « **Reply #4 on:** March 12, 2001, 01:33:00 PM »

It would have major upgrade in my opinion what I've heard and seen.

Difference here is between technology how video card draws all those 3d models (more polygons = less FPS), also memory is faster in Geforces than TNT2's. (faster and higher clocked I believe)

Ripsnort · « **Reply #5 on:** March 12, 2001, 02:03:00 PM »

Great, thks for all your replies, I've been sold !

Laika · « **Reply #6 on:** March 15, 2001, 10:50:00 PM »

>Celeron 450 & TNT2 Ultra gave me ~35fps
>PIII 700 & TNT2 Ultra gave about 45fps
>PIII 700 & Prophet2 MX give about 60-70fps
>With OC'd cpu and vid.card 80-90fps
>All 1024*768 with 32bit colors

Thats good to hear, I have a CL TNT2 Ultra that I'm hoping to replace with a 32MB GF2 MX

At the mo I'm getting low 40's @ 1024 most of the time and I really want to go up to 1280 res with the same or better FPS.

SYS:
Cel2 633 @ 800Mhz
256MB ram
TNT2 Ultra 32MB
40GB HD (RAID 0)

Staga · « **Reply #7 on:** March 15, 2001, 11:17:00 PM »

When buying GeForce card be sure you buy a retail version from a good manufacturer. There's lots of differencies between different cards in memory speeds and quality of components. Looks like Hercules/Guillemot and Leadtek cards are made of good parts thus giving better picture quality than some "NoName" cards.
My Prophet2MX came with Hyundai's 5,5ns mem (TC-55) and after I added a fan in it I oc'd it to core220/memory230 and best 3D-mark results were about 5800-5900 with P3-700 oc'd to 933, Dx7a and Nvidia's 6.34 reference drivers.