Getting a new vid card -
 

Well, this CANT be avoided any longer, I'm sick of there drivers for this damn card locking up the system, so I'm off to do a little "funny bizness" - and get me a top line video card.

Any recommendations before I leave in an hour?

Radeon 9700, can't get any more top of the line than that.

its days are numbered freak:

By what exactly? The vaporware that is the nv-30. Snorrre.

The ATI 9700 is the best out there, but the price is horrific, myself, I bought a Geforce 4 Ti4200 128 meg, the card is awesome for the games I have, and not very expensive either.

iv been reading stuff bout it for the past hour, all articles say the same thing, nvidia once again outdoes ati.

Well they have had a few months to improve on the 9700. Its not as if nvidia are gonna be stupid enough to release a slower card now is it?

As for outdoing at "once again" nvidia will be outdone yet agaiin with the higher clock speed r-350 which will be around a november release.

Well I'm still here -

I've been looking online, and I want to get an nVidia card, but there drivers are killing me, and ATI supposedly have more features. I'm looking for a 300 and under card, preferably 128meg DDR

it would be cool to have both company to release there cards at the same time to see who is really working the hardest and who has the best card

wow mr know it all asked for help...nvidea driver problems...they have best suport..sounds like more than a video problem to me...ati new card has driver issues...go with a nvidea gforce4 ti 4600...you beat me in to games so u must have a nice cpu..it sounds like a power source problem to me...

was that a couple sentences or a really long one?

you tell me idiot...striker you have to be a virgin...you are so up tight try beating off..release that tension.

striker is a dickhead isn't he?

I'd go with a Geforce4 Ti4600... but they overpriced it so badly only rich
white kids can afford one.

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[quote:d430d]wow mr know it all asked for help...nvidea driver problems...they have best suport..sounds like more than a video problem to me...ati new card has driver issues...go with a nvidea gforce4 ti 4600...you beat me in to games so u must have a nice cpu..it sounds like a power source problem to me...[/quote:d430d]

You are pretty much asking for help there too, Founding_Ass...I mean, do you need a soul? a brain? "if I OnLy.Had a brane"......

geforce cards are compatible with almost all the games out there. get a geforece 4 ti

more idiotic statements from tripper..are you and striker gay lovers...if not you should be...

[quote="Founding_Law":ffa07]more idiotic statements from tripper..are you and striker gay lovers...if not you should be...[/quote:ffa07]


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Dick

o i forgot gerard he wants a 3 some with you guys...now we know who the homos are...

[quote="Founding_Law":ddcb2]more idiotic statements from tripper..are you and striker gay lovers...if not you should be...[/quote:ddcb2]

Striker? who the hell is that? and I think you are the gay one, talking about penis size with your hooker aunt hake:

Well thats mature!

Ok all of you with all this petty bullshit - fuck off.

I ended up getting the LEADTEK 64mb DDr GeForce4 TI, simply because I can return the GeForce2 MX without anyone noticing it aint the LEADTEK.

Anywho, already noticed a difference - actually played BAtTLEFIELD on HIGH Settings. That game just got a whole lot more enjoyable.

Same with MOH. Didn't know the faces of the models had THAT kind of detail.

God bless FRY's and their horribly open ended return policies.

fry's is the best, they got cheap ass computers that are like used but not broken.

[quote="MR. SPECIAL ED":f3fa0]Ok all of you with all this petty bullshit - fuck off.

I ended up getting the LEADTEK 64mb DDr GeForce4 TI, simply because I can return the GeForce2 MX without anyone noticing it aint the LEADTEK.

Anywho, already noticed a difference - actually played BAtTLEFIELD on HIGH Settings. That game just got a whole lot more enjoyable.

Same with MOH. Didn't know the faces of the models had THAT kind of detail.

God bless FRY's and their horribly open ended return policies.[/quote:f3fa0]
So how much was it? I trying to put some money aside for a card. But it's hard to justify one to my wife....you know the kid need shoes, and that kind of crap.

Ok - well heres my review of the LEADTEK GeForce4 TI 4200 Ultra TD -

Nice card. Looks snazzy out of the box, but not too fancy. Comes with some bundled software too. But not games I'd normally play. MSI came with HALF LIFE which sucks since I just spent 30 bucks on it. Also has a built on heatsink for the memory and cpu I guess, I dont fucking know.

Anywho - heres the main thing - performance -

Well it comes with the 30.82 drivers from nVidia. Which operate as shit on my XP but probably cause its the warez version. So time to download a new coy of Xp I guess. Anywho, this card cocks when it actually is working. I turned up ALL the settings on Battlefield and MOH and this game was crankin out 50 FPS (which is good appearantly on that excessilby high settings). I havent tried it on lower settins but I'm sure its high as shit.

All in all, if I were going for budget, I'd invest in this card - definately if you choose to get it online since Pricewatch has them very cheap which I might use and return this one in 30 days or so while I wait for the card.

you never said a price....and if you have a non retail copy of xp do not get service pack one...

[quote="Founding_Law":380bd]you never said a price....and if you have a non retail copy of xp do not get service pack one...[/quote:380bd]

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You may have made the right choice ED. The 64 DDR should be enough for most of todays games. The memory opperates at higher speed than the 128 DDR, so its a case of less room but faster turn over. The 128 card will show its power with more detail crammed games, such as DOOM 3 where the size of the memory will be a great asset. Layed textures are where the 128 will excell.

Yes, true, but the 128 can easily be overclocked to near ti4600 speeds (the clock speeds, not the memory speeds). The more I read about this card, the more I think nvidia made this card as a gift to overclockers to promote brand loyalty. I think I am going to purchase one in the next week or two.

So far I'm liking the new card that I got.

Most games I was relegated to run in 800x600 (possibly) resolution, but now I've got MOH and BATTLEFIELD cranked up to the highest settings and resolutions, and these maps are running along nicely. I'm not trying to get huge Frames Per Second, because the game runs fine at the high settings I already have, no need to overclock.

LeadTEK comes with its own overclock utility, so I'll mess around with that sonuva bitch and see what I can get - but more than likely I'm going to get a LeadTEK 128DDR at the end of the month, since they have them for much less on Pricewatch, just not with a manufacturer that seems to sell much in stores. I'll have to do some review-hunting of course, but I'm gonna go with that, or just get a 4600 Ti (which on price watch costs as much as I spent on the Retail 4200).

And man, does BATTLEFIELD look nice when you actually have a computer to handle the effects and graphics. For all those saying the game has "Commodore 64 (?)" graphics, they obviously are running things at a LOW level. Should really take the time to crank that sonuva gun up and see what you are missing. MOH too.

yea i play that game on max setting with my geforce 3 and it runs smooth, i found the lag actually came from the sounds so i put sound on low and minimum channels.

I have Geforce 4 mx440 64mb. oOo: