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by **Ed Whit** » Mon, 27 Jan 2003 06:38:27

Thanks, Ed

by **Tim** » Mon, 27 Jan 2003 07:15:43

[snip]

I made a similar decision recently, and went for the 128mb GeForce 4
Ti4200. Seems to the sweet spot right now for $/performance.
Avoid the GeForce 4MX. The price looks too-good-to-be-true, and it is.
The card is little more than a gussied up version of the card you
already have.

I have a P3/933 and a 2ghz Athon running the NASCAR demo, and both
perform well with the 4200's.

Tim

by **Doug Hoo** » Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:05:10

I have almost the exact specs as you Ed and I am currently close to buying a GF4 TI4200 to hold me over for a while.

Thanks, Ed

by **MadDAW** » Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:40:17

impressed. So either a lower level GF4 card or an ATI 9500 Pro would be good
options. I have been kicking it around myself and have been leaning towards
the 9500 Pro myself.

MadDAWG

by **Jonathan Van Ginneke** » Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:17:07

As a former ATi user (2 years or so on my AIW Radeon) my one warning to you
would be ATi is horrible about driver updates compared to nvidia.

Jonathan

> impressed. So either a lower level GF4 card or an ATI 9500 Pro would be
good
> options. I have been kicking it around myself and have been leaning
towards
> the 9500 Pro myself.

> MadDAWG

by **JCana** » Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:00:05

I just purchased an Asus GeForce4 TI4200 (128mb DDR) from http://newegg.com
($159.00). I have a P3, 733mhz Dell. I about doubled my FPS in N4 and
also doubled my benchmark score using 3DMark2001. I upgraded from a 64mb
GeForce2 MX400.

hth,
jeff

> Hi all, N2003 is coming soon, and so will all the upgrade posts, so I

> pc133sdram, GeForce2 64 Meg GTS/PRO(AGP version), WinXP Pro, and I'm
> looking to upgrade the vid card to gain a few frames in 2003, since I
> can't afford a new system at this point, and it appears that my system
> will run 2003 passably well, based on the leaked demo. So what I'd
> like to ask is, what flavor of card will show the best improvement?
> Will a Geforce3 be enough, or should I look at a lower level GeForce4?
> Any opinions on what brand or model would be most effective? Since I'm
> not splurging on a new system, my budget for a vid card is looking
> good, but I don't want to buy a card that the processor just won't
> support, so......any ideas? Thanks, Ed

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by **MadDAW** » Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:04:52

Actually I too have owned ATI in the past. They have gotten their "stuff"
together as far as drivers go these days, and IMO their image quality has
always been far superior to Nvidia.

MadDAWG

by **Ed Whit** » Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:22:18

Thanks for the input guys, since most of the replies mentioned the 128m
Ti4200, that is the card I just ordered from newegg.com, should be here and
in the box by the time I'm ready to play N2003........Thanks all.
Ed

by **Zodia** » Tue, 28 Jan 2003 02:55:35

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> Hi all, N2003 is coming soon, and so will all the upgrade posts, so I

> pc133sdram, GeForce2 64 Meg GTS/PRO(AGP version), WinXP Pro, and I'm
> looking to upgrade the vid card to gain a few frames in 2003, since I
> can't afford a new system at this point, and it appears that my system
> will run 2003 passably well, based on the leaked demo. So what I'd
> like to ask is, what flavor of card will show the best improvement?
> Will a Geforce3 be enough, or should I look at a lower level GeForce4?
> Any opinions on what brand or model would be most effective? Since I'm
> not splurging on a new system, my budget for a vid card is looking
> good, but I don't want to buy a card that the processor just won't
> support, so......any ideas? Thanks, Ed

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I`m running a AMD Athlon XP 2700 with a ATI Radeon9700 Pro and upgraded
from a GeForce2.Running 3DMark 2001,I more than tripled the benchmark
of my old GeForce.

by **remove EATSPAM to repl** » Tue, 28 Jan 2003 05:28:06

Hi all, N2003 is coming soon, and so will all the upgrade posts, so I

pc133sdram, GeForce2 64 Meg GTS/PRO(AGP version), WinXP Pro, and I'm
looking to upgrade the vid card to gain a few frames in 2003, since I
can't afford a new system at this point, and it appears that my system
will run 2003 passably well, based on the leaked demo. So what I'd like
to ask is, what flavor of card will show the best improvement? Will a
Geforce3 be enough, or should I look at a lower level GeForce4? Any
opinions on what brand or model would be most effective? Since I'm not
splurging on a new system, my budget for a vid card is looking good, but
I don't want to buy a card that the processor just won't support,
so......any ideas?
Thanks, Ed

Best bang for buck at the moment is ATI Radeon 8500 LE. Usually found
under $100,
it can be cranked up to almost rival the Radeon 9500 in performance.

--KC

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