Vid Card Oppinions

[(>Tool<)]

http://www.googlegear.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=322436

This is the card I'm seriously considering buying, any input would be much appriciated.

[shockwave203 Profile]

That's a very good price for that card.

I am upgrading my video card as well, infact I already purchased it, and it should arrive on Wednesday.

It's a Radeon 9700, really powerful card, but the Geforce 4 ti4800 is also a good buy, for that price.

[Edogg]

what card do you already have tool?

[Rule of Wrist]

That's the same place I got my card last year... (MSI TI4400)

I think the 5600FX card is faster however and only a few bucks more from the same place... I would recommend that vendor. Return policy is good, and they are responsive to your emails and requests.

Some of the best prices on the web that isn't "Big Bob's Bar and Grill and Computer Emporium"...

[Ryan Profile]

THANK YOU FOR FINDING THAT!!!

Ive been scowering the net trying to find a good price for that exact card / brand.

Thanks again, ill have to order right now

[(>Tool<)]

Originally posted by Edogg
what card do you already have tool?

I have a GF4mx 420, 64mb sdram, and it blows horrible chunks.

[(>Tool<)]

Originally posted by Ryan
THANK YOU FOR FINDING THAT!!!

Ive been scowering the net trying to find a good price for that exact card / brand.

Thanks again, ill have to order right now

well your welcome.

[Agent-Commando]

The GF4s are not DX9 compliant.. And they lack the 8 pixel pipelines present in today's better cards...which you will need for Doom III.

The GeForce 4s are almost 2 years old now guys... I'd get a recent card if it was me.

I have a 9500 Pro now, and will go to a 9700 Pro soon.

[Sannop]

9500 pro here too... I love it. But make sure that you have at least 300watts

[Rule of Wrist]

I'm waiting a generation or two more in vid card development to upgrade... by then I hope to be able to pick up a 9800 pro or better for less than $200...

For now, there are only a couple games that even use DX9... and I've heard that doom3 and half life 2 will take more graphics power than even the latest cards can handle...

[Edogg]

i think i might get a fx 5800 non ultra . Ill wait until the 5900's come out and they should drop in price(under 300 bucks.) then Ill just overclock the shit out of it. Thats what I did with my ti 4200.

[Ryan Profile]

Well.. going from an AIW 8500dv 64mb to a AGP 8x ti4800 GF4 128mb will be a HUGE advancement.

[Rule of Wrist]

Hey tool, check this out...

http://www.compuplus.com/insidepage.php3?sid=87493pvd54z3sh3&id=1000989

[(>Tool<)]

Thanks wrist, but I think the card I'm getting actually has a higher memory bandwidth then that card does. Also I read some overclocking reviews on the gainward in my first post and it looks like it will overclock very nicely. I'm looking to get a 330-350 mhz GPU and 700-750mhz memory speed, right now I'm running at 286mhz GPU and 429Mhz memory clock and thats with my poor GF4 Mx 420 overclocked to shit. So I think this card is very worth the money and should atleast be able to hold decent graphics for while, till maybe next year when I can afford to spend 400 on the best card on the market, but by then I'll be building a whole new system too.

[(>Tool<)]

oops, I didn't mention that the GF4 Mx I do have, is PCI and even the pci bus is overclocked, I'm just squeezing the hell out of my card to get decent framerates. I want that to stop. but I don't have much money at all, so I came up with this option, which I still need to find the money for.