Cheap Graphics Card

[Fire_Monkey]

Do you think I should get a Gforce3 for 82 dollars?

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Are you strapped for cash?

[Fire_Monkey]

Yeah dude, I have like 80 bucks in cash, alot in savings...but thats for college.

[Nightmare]

I would suggest asking for $20, or getting a bit more money, because last time I checked pricewatch, you can get a GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB for a little over $100. I'm not sure how much of an improvement it is, but it's definatly better.

[Fire_Monkey]

Thanks, I'll go scrounge up some money for a gforce4. still need to preorder Planetside, thats a priority first.

[Subliminal]

I suggest a card from Radeon. I was reading a article from tech tv and it had the comparison between all the cheaper cards now and the 64mb radeon 9000pro out performed all the MX series geforce4's and all geforce3's. I would choose it and you can get a 128mb Radeon 9000pro for $94. I think the 64mb version of that card is only $75 whatever you do dont get a geforce MX series card they dont support all directX8.1 features. IMO a geforce 4 is merely a pumped up gf2.

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Well no not exactly... but anyways. You can actually get a ti4200 turbo for less than 200 I believe. It performs about 5% less than the ti4600. Someone showed it to me a little while ago.

http://www.lanaddict.com/review.php?ID=6

Price: $199

[Saint]

You can get the industry standard card (GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB) for $100-$160. That is a great card. I have one and it cannot fail me. I always crank up all the graphics on games too, it can handle it. I might have to add this comment tho:

"You can't build a computer that the computer gaming industry can't bring to its knees" -SJ

Sorry Dio didn't mean to steal your quote, but I heard it first on the shoutcast so

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Industry standard? pfft that thing is souped up to be a beast of a card considering how much it is. You can spend about $250 on a radeon 9700 and OC that and make it into a Radeon 9700.

[SpazMonkey]

Originally posted by Subliminal
I suggest a card from Radeon. I was reading a article from tech tv and it had the comparison between all the cheaper cards now and the 64mb radeon 9000pro out performed all the MX series geforce4's and all geforce3's. I would choose it and you can get a 128mb Radeon 9000pro for $94. I think the 64mb version of that card is only $75 whatever you do dont get a geforce MX series card they dont support all directX8.1 features. IMO a geforce 4 is merely a pumped up gf2.

Of course the 9700 will outperform a Geforce4 MX, those MX are business class models of graphics cards and aren't intended for heavy gaming. I know some people who have those MX's because they thought it was a deal for a GF4, but they realized they are crap...

[BLuE_ZeRO]

He said Radeon 9000 but I do agree. MX aren't exactly power gaming cards. If you're going to get a GF4 get the ti series.

[Lexington_Steele]

You know, I think Nvidia and ATI are pretty evenly matched. I browsed through a huge article that compared all of ATI and Nvidias recent cards.

They were performance benchmarked on 4 games and with 3dmark. We all know that the ATIs outperform Nvidias on the 3dmark testing.

However, the ti4600 and ti4400 outperformed all of ATI's cards on two of the games, and the top two ATI cards outperformed all Nvidia cards on the other two games.

The article was also suggesting that Nvidia's cards run better on slower machines than the ATI cards do.

[Bighoss]

get the good graphics card and don't listen to most of the people here cuz they'll tell you that a Gforce ti 4600 128mb is crappy Average isn't good enough for them its gotta be the best

[BLuE_ZeRO]

The newer ati cards are better on faster systems because they can handle them. Geforce 4 ti series cards are great cards and they are relatively inexpensive (except the ti4600). ATI or nvidia would be able to run this game pretty well I imagine

[MANIAC~VVV~]

wait for the FX to come out and then get a Ti4600 for under $175