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| 80406 | 2002-09-17 12:18:00 | I wouldnt have thought that my sytem would hold back any of the latest gfx cards... is my humble PIII 1000 really the bottle neck for anything better than a GeForce3 ??? Why god why??? seriously where can I look that sort of thing up? |
flying_green_leprachaun (1767) | ||
| 80407 | 2002-09-17 12:25:00 | Suggestion, sell your mobo and P3 and buy a P4 1.8 northwood and an asus 333 mobo with sis chipset. Best intel/mobo combo bang for the buck at present at roughly $ 600 if you hunt hard. Very overclockable and stable combination. Everything else you have will slot right in though your present graphics card would be something of a bottleneck. | the highlander (245) | ||
| 80408 | 2002-09-17 12:27:00 | RAID drive setup would be nice but you will need new drives as barracudas IV have had problems running in raid config (andyou need 2 identical drives minimum). however if you get new motherboard, which you will need to to be able to upgrade cpu, you can get one with raid onboard and get new drives later on. it all depends on what you do with the pc. if you don't play much games or into heavy graphics then drives/cpu/motherboard upgrade should be first. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 80409 | 2002-09-17 12:28:00 | Actually, I can't prove that it would be a bottleneck, although Tweak'e pointed a website out in his Tuesday or Monday news which featured a shoot-out between all the diff graphics cards for Unreal Tournament 2003... The Geforce 3 Ti500 is still VERY competitive, and if you're looking to spend money wisely, it would be better to get this card over a Geforce 4 MX 440, which is basically an over-glorified Geforce 3 MX card. Personally, I am running an ASUS P4S533 mobo P4 1.8Ghz chip ASUS Geforce 4 Ti4400 256 ddr pc2700 ram Maxtor Ata133 40gib hd Aopen 32X writer Some ANCIENT dvd rom (Matshita SR-8584A) Win 98SE Am getting a 1gig strip of ddr ram from overseas in a few weeks, so am positively SALIVATING at the thought of that... Reason I suggested a Geforce3 Ti500 is because you were looking at upgrading while spending no more than $500 odd... that's what you'd be able to get for that much IIRC... though I could be wrong... So, not a bottleneck as such, but given your setup, I would've thought it would've been sweet with that card in... Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 80410 | 2002-09-17 12:36:00 | Here's (www.3dcenter.org) that website from Tweak'es news... Can't read German, but i understand pictures! :^O | Lohsing (219) | ||
| 80411 | 2002-09-17 12:40:00 | >Geforce 3 MX ??? i think you mean geforce 2 MX geforce3 t1 500 are still good cards just hard to find. gf3 ti200 are still around and are a good budget buy. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 80412 | 2002-09-17 12:46:00 | Hehe... Tweak'e, you're right... Too many late nights for me! Check this website out explaining that... www.gpfault.org A few paragraphs into it... "First of all, the name GeForce 4 (you'd think), would refer to something that comes from the new GeForce 4 family of products, which would mean amazingly fast frame rates which blow the pants off of anything else on the market. In all truth, and to circumvent alot of techno-speak, this GeForce 4 MX 440 chipset is really just a souped up GeForce 2 MX wrapped with some fancy dual monitor support and a few fancy tech buzzwords like nView™ multi-display architecture, Lightspeed Memory Architecture™ II, and Accuview Antialiasing™ Engine. Its all just hot air when you look at performance and that is where the real truth is told. This card was barely able to beat out a GeForce 3 Ti200 on low-resolution benchmark and frame rate tests. When resolution was upped and anti-aliasing enabled, the GeForce 3 Ti200 pulled ahead, FAR ahead of the GeForce 4 MX... which, I guess it's to be expected, because compared to the GeForce 3 MX... oh wait, there WAS no GeForce 3 MX to compare it to. Nvidia pulled a snazzy little move here, releasing a low-end card with the GeForce4 moniker, possibly hoping to pull in consumers who want GeForce 4 performance at a good price... Surprise, surprise!" What a mistake to make on my part... :8} |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 80413 | 2002-09-17 13:10:00 | "P4 1.8 northwood and an asus 333 mobo with sis chipset" Hi. I wondered why you think this combo is so good, given the vast array of mobo's available. The reason I ask is coz I'm about to buy a new case, m/b and P4 cpu, and I haven't the faintest clue about main boards... too exhausting to go into in too much depth for me. I'm getting a GF 4 4200 shortly afterwards. And of course I'm keen on best value. Thx. |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 80414 | 2002-09-17 13:31:00 | Get an Asus P4S533... supports all the latest P4 chips coming out... Very stable too! Hehe... then you'll have the same set-up as me! :o ... ;) | Lohsing (219) | ||
| 80415 | 2002-09-18 10:52:00 | Hi. I wondered why you think this combo is so good, given the vast array of mobo's available. 1.8 northwood and asus sis 333 mobo Cheap, available, stable motherboard with a reasonable level of overclocking options combined with a highly overclockable cpu using a stock fan and heatsink. Did i mention cheap ? Only just replaced mine (with 1.6a northwood) with an asus PB533 and 2.4b P4 and it was hard parting with it (until i assembled the new rig and fired it up). |
the highlander (245) | ||
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