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GeForce 3: Pricing Scam?

Tim

GeForce 3: Pricing Scam?

by Tim » Sun, 04 Mar 2001 15:01:21

Sure do. It's still in use on a second machine to run SODA.
Check back with me after Leadfoot comes out. Might be willing to let
it go cheap then. :-)

Tim



Tim

GeForce 3: Pricing Scam?

by Tim » Sun, 04 Mar 2001 15:09:38



[snip]

You didn't say what processor you had, but if you have a P3, the TNT1
is bottle-necking you pretty bad. A GeForce 2 MX, which now costs
around $100 doubled, and in some cases more than doubled my frame
rates over a TNT2 M64 (crippled TNT2, which has slightly better
performance than your card) on a P3/866.

I think this is the sweetest "cheapie" card out right now.

Tim

George M. Smile

GeForce 3: Pricing Scam?

by George M. Smile » Sat, 10 Mar 2001 06:25:34



>> I hate to sound like an Nvidia groupie but I read that most
>> of the cost of the card is due to the current prices of 64MB
>> of the DDR RAM.

> 64MB  DDR PC1600 . Unbuffered . Non-parity . 2.5V . 8Meg x 64
> CT864Z202 $35.99

Not going to get much performance out of PC1600 DDR SDRAM
on a video card.  The 1600 stands for 1.6GB/s bandwidth, in other
words 100 MHz DDR SDRAM.

The GF3/GF2 Ultra use 230MHz DDR SDRAM, i.e. a mythical
PC3860 DDR SDRAM, something you aren't going to find on
your average memory pricing guide.

Try Hyundai or Samsung for info (they don't publish prices) if
you are truly interested.

 - George

Kirk Hous

GeForce 3: Pricing Scam?

by Kirk Hous » Sat, 10 Mar 2001 16:52:38

Hey! I only wrote the first part somebody else wrote this

In fact I even replied with a similar answer to his email.  Sorry to sound
hostile but I don't like being misquoted :)





> >> I hate to sound like an Nvidia groupie but I read that most
> >> of the cost of the card is due to the current prices of 64MB
> >> of the DDR RAM.

> > 64MB  DDR PC1600 . Unbuffered . Non-parity . 2.5V . 8Meg x 64
> > CT864Z202 $35.99

> Not going to get much performance out of PC1600 DDR SDRAM
> on a video card.  The 1600 stands for 1.6GB/s bandwidth, in other
> words 100 MHz DDR SDRAM.

> The GF3/GF2 Ultra use 230MHz DDR SDRAM, i.e. a mythical
> PC3860 DDR SDRAM, something you aren't going to find on
> your average memory pricing guide.

> Try Hyundai or Samsung for info (they don't publish prices) if
> you are truly interested.

>  - George


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