Author Topic: videocard upgrade (Read 406 times)

filadawg · « **on:** January 26, 2003, 04:44:28 PM »

im looking to upgrade my card in the next couple of weeks. My current system specs are as follows.

soyo kt333 dragon ultra platinum
amd xp1900
gforce 2 mx 64mg
512 mg pc 2700 kingston ram

What is going to give me the best upgrade for the money. 200.00 is the most I am wanting to spend at this time. Any and all input appreciated.

aknimitz · « **Reply #1 on:** January 27, 2003, 06:08:10 PM »

I'd probably go with GF4 Ti4600 - it will cost you a *bit* mroe than $200, but not much. If $200 is the absolute limit, GF3 Ti500 is a good bet.

Check on ebay, best prices around. If you arent comfortable with ebay, pricewatch.com is a good starting point.

Good luck!

Nim

bloom25 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 27, 2003, 07:23:11 PM »

Either a GeForce 4 Titanium 4200 or a Radeon 9500 (not Pro). Both are VERY overclockable and quite fast. The Radeon can supposedly be tweaked to reach the level of a 9700 Pro. The GeForce 4 Ti 4200s are generally quite overclockable as well.

aknimitz · « **Reply #3 on:** January 27, 2003, 09:21:13 PM »

and I would listen to Bloom before you do me - he knows far more about this stuff than I do!

Nim

Ike 2K# · « **Reply #4 on:** January 27, 2003, 09:27:13 PM »

may the best driver wins. (video card drivers)

Pfunk · « **Reply #5 on:** January 27, 2003, 09:54:42 PM »

Go for the radeon 9500 128MB NON pro card sapphire tech OEM version, newegg is sold out googlegear has a few left at $156 shipped, that card is printed on a 9700 PCB and the only diferrence is that initially it has only 4 rendering pipelines enabled. The new rivatuner will circumvent this and enable all 8 pipelines thus making it a 9700, you can then overclock it and turn it into a 9700 pro. This has been the talk of all the hardware forums for the past few weeks and the supply of these cards is running low. Go back a few posts and see the link for the drivers. Or check http://www.hardocp.com and look into the forums for other tips. I cant forsee the prices of Radeon 9700 Pro's going down with today's release of the GForce FX benchmarks, $400 for a card that BARELY beats the 9700pro in some benchmarks and outright loses in others. So in other words $155 for a $300 card is the best bet going.

Vermillion · « **Reply #6 on:** January 28, 2003, 12:11:55 PM »

I just went with your suggestion Pfunk. I hope it works out

Of course for $158 you can't really go too wrong.

Griego · « **Reply #7 on:** January 30, 2003, 12:17:11 AM »

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Originally posted by bloom25
Either a GeForce 4 Titanium 4200 or a Radeon 9500 (not Pro). Both are VERY overclockable and quite fast. The Radeon can supposedly be tweaked to reach the level of a 9700 Pro. The GeForce 4 Ti 4200s are generally quite overclockable as well.

This is Question for Bloom.

What program would you use to overclock this card. I got the Geforce 4 Ti 4200 64mb ddr. with the 500mhz memory. How far would you go with this. 550mhz.

How much difference does it really make overclocking the card 10%. I just found out how much difference in FPS it makes in AH to overclock my processor. It brought up my FPS by atleast 10 to 15 FPS over stock.

system specs:

AMD Athlon 1800xp processor
windows 98 first edition
MSI k7t turbo 2 mobo
Nvidia Geforce 4 ti 4200 64 ddr

If you need any other specs let me know thanks.