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by **Luke Phillip** » Sun, 27 Oct 2002 14:09:35

Over the next month i am going to upgrade from a; Celeron 850, 256mb ram,
64mb GF2 MX400 to a, P4 2.4, 512mb ram. What im not sure about is the video
card. My inital intentions were to go for the suma GF4 Ti4200 because it can
be overclocked to and sometiems faster than the Ti4600. Is this the best
option, or should i look at an ATI card, i have a fairly limited budget and
only want to spend around $400AU (around $0.5USD :) ) and play 95% race
sims, 5% other games :) Thanks in advance

--
Luke
-=87=-

by **ChrisG2** » Mon, 28 Oct 2002 08:12:49

I've got a PNY GF4 Ti 4200 and love it. Haven't OC'd yet because I don't
need to.. By the way only things I play are GPL, N2002 and F1 2002. In most
cases I can run max on the graphics. I'm running a AMD XP 1900 with 256mb of
ram.

Chris G.

by **FastC** » Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:46:30

If you are going to use it mostly for *** anyway, why not skip the P4? An
AMD will do the job quite suitably and let you put the extra bucks into some
additional video HP or keep you GF2 another couple months when the newest
latest-greatest cards are out, what's top-of the line right now becomes the
"2nd teir" item , it's a pretty safe bet that it won't be very long that you
can pick up a GF4600ti for what you'd pay for the 4200 now.

Regardless of what you decide, enjoy the new toys!

by **Luke Phillip** » Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:06:24

From what ive read and witnessed amd are renowned for their over heating and
un-reliability. Even still in the benchmarks and reviews ive seen p4 beats
the amd in the benchmarks and tests anyway...

Luke
-=87=-

by **Larr** » Tue, 29 Oct 2002 07:29:07

I think the R9700 would be ok, but I wouldn't pay the money for a Ti4600 at
this time.

Keep an eye on Ti4400 prices, which every now and then end up being best
buys.

-Larry

> On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 05:09:35 GMT, "Luke Phillips"

> >Over the next month i am going to upgrade from a; Celeron 850, 256mb ram,
> >64mb GF2 MX400 to a, P4 2.4, 512mb ram. What im not sure about is the
video
> >card. My inital intentions were to go for the suma GF4 Ti4200 because it
can
> >be overclocked to and sometiems faster than the Ti4600. Is this the best
> >option, or should i look at an ATI card, i have a fairly limited budget
and
> >only want to spend around $400AU (around $0.5USD :) ) and play 95% race
> >sims, 5% other games :) Thanks in advance

> Save some money and get the GF4 Ti 4200 64mb, even not overclocked it
> is fast. Then maybe next year get Nvidia NV30 or Radeon 9700. I
> wouldn't commit to GF4 4600 or R9700 right now.

by **ChrisG2** » Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:50:19

Luke,

I've got a AMD XP 1900. This machine is very stable. I can't remember the
last time I had a "blue screen." Heat wise I'll play GPL, N2002 or F1 2002
for hours and the temp of the CPU never gets above 47. Case temp average
around 27-29. I'm still running the original heat sink and fan that came
with the cpu. I would give the AMD chip a long and hard look before you make
your decision.

Chris G.

My system:

Soltek SL-75DRV5
AMD XP 1900
Samsung DDR333 PC-2700 256MB
PNY GeForce 4 Ti 4200
SB Live
Maxtor 60gb ATA 133 7200RPM
Lite-On DVD 16X48
HP 8200 CD-RW
Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card
Silver Chieftec Server tower DX-01SLD W/ 2 x 80mm sleeve cooling fan (rear
blowing out) w/420w power supply
Thermaltake 80X80X25mm (front fan blowing in)
Dell P991 19" Trinitron
Harmon /Kardon HK595 speakers
Windows 98se

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