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Should I upgrade my gfx card?

Jonny Hodgso

Should I upgrade my gfx card?

by Jonny Hodgso » Sun, 04 Aug 2002 19:02:16


> Jonny......you are looking in the 31 bracket for a graphic card upgrade...?

> Where in UK are you...?

Coventry, approximately - but these things post okay given an
anti-static bag and a thick Jiffy bag, I'd have thought...

Email me - you'll need to take the capitals out of my reply
address.

Jonny

adsale

Should I upgrade my gfx card?

by adsale » Mon, 05 Aug 2002 05:23:30


> Excellent, thank you Goy!

> I've just done a quick ranking exercise on the 533/500 results,
> and it looks like the GF2 Pro 400 and the GF2 MX come top (the
> MX is better at 533, the Pro at 400) followed by the GF DDR and
> the GF 256.  The V5 is the only non-GF card in contention!

> From that, maybe a GF4 MX might just make sense - perhaps with
> a look at some mild overclocking...

Most P2-400's I've had my hands on will OC to 448 at 112 FSB speed
without even upping the voltage on the CPU or increasing the available
cooling

And you're not alone in not having a top end system either

http://valve.speakeasy.net/

Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy

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Uwe Schuerkam

Should I upgrade my gfx card?

by Uwe Schuerkam » Sun, 04 Aug 2002 20:21:30


>> GForce 2 MX 440 --> GForce 4 MX 440 for about $60.

>     I say this is a terrible purchase.  It's precisely what nvidia's
> marketing department want you to do: blow money on a marginal increase,
> thereby forcing you to upgrade yet again in 6months.  If you insist on
> buying nvidia products, at least get a 4200 or better.

Hi Roger & others,

thanks for the reply. I bought the card anyway, but it went to
replace an old V3 2000 in my son's *** machine. It was
impossible to install in my games box, so he shelled out the
money (the price is still ok imho).

He's a happy warcraft III player now, performance of the gf4mx
is much better (if only because it has 4X the RAM of the voodoo
;-)

Cheers & thanks again for all your comments,

Uwe

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