[JR2000Z]

This whole thing has been eating me for months and I want it to stop. First off my price range is $0-300. I'm willing to pay more if I have too. I currently have a Voodoo5 so I really have to upgrade. I'm thinking that I might as well go for the 128mb cards...


Ive been looking at the VisionTekGeforce4Ti series for a year now but VisionTek has been joined by ATI so I may_not_want to get that after all (?). On the otherside, VisionTek made some really nice cards for ATI - Their Visiontek 9500 looks like they have everything (even eight parrell pixelpipelines!) and only cost around $250-300. It seems too good to be true but there should be a flip-side somewhere. There had been rumors of VisionTek going down and if it does....


But Jesus...all I want is an affordible card that works very well with games and make em look great and not have to end up replacing it in the next two years. Any suggestions?

[Ulundel]

Well, if you really have 300 bucks to buy a new card, go for this one.



This is MSI GeForce 4 Ti4800 128MB DDRAM AGP 8x Video-In TV-Out. One of the best cards you can find.

[CP5670]

Ti4800? didn't even know such a thing existed until now...

[Ryx]

Wait a little. ATI has a new card coming out this month (or next). That should improve prices.

*me wants R350 *

[Stunaep]

The best makers of the GeForce range are currently Gainward and LeadTek, I believe. I myself own a LeadTek Ti4200 and am utterly pleased with it. You can get a GeForce Ti4800SE for about £153... which would be about $290 then. I myself, do not find any reason though, why save some extra bucks and get a Gainward Ti4600 Golden Sample, which is in very good quality atm for $240.

Of course, the newest ATI would be a good buy too, since it exceeds GeForce in most benchmarks, and has DX9 support

[Ulundel]

Originally posted by CP5670
Ti4800? didn't even know such a thing existed until now...

Scary, isn't it?

[Redfang]

The Ti4800 is just Ti4200 with AGP 8x support, so it's actually slower than Ti4600 and Ti4400, only a bit faster than 4200.
 
I'd say go for some GF4Ti card, or Radeon 9500PRO/9700 (the 9700 doesn't have to be pro, it just has slower clockspeed, but 9500 non-pro is pretty slow, it has only 4 pixel pipelines and 128-bit memory bus).

[silverwolf]

last i heard visiontek was going under so they may not be the best choice but do't belive me i'm not sure about it anyways

[Fineus]

Doesn't matter much does it? I mean as long as the card doesn't go wrong you can get the latest drivers from nVidia...

[diamondgeezer]

Get a Ti42. Anything above is a waste of money according to 3D Mark - my comparison chart showed only a few percent improvement for people with 44 or 46s. I got my 42 at a computer fair for sixty squids, whatever that's worth in silver dollars...

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Get a Ti42. Anything above is a waste of money according to 3D Mark - my comparison chart showed only a few percent improvement for people with 44 or 46s. I got my 42 at a computer fair for sixty squids, whatever that's worth in silver dollars...

roughly $90 I think.  that's a pretty ****-hot price for a Ti4200, though - almost half the bvest price i've found on the net (mainly scan.co.uk and dabs.com)

[Nico]

I have a radeon 9700, it rules beyond anything.
boyah!!!!!!

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Ulundel
This is MSI GeForce 4 Ti4800 128MB DDRAM AGP 8x Video-In TV-Out. One of the best cards you can find.

One of the best... the best being the R9700

Radeon 9700 is the best you can buy nowadays... definately

[Ulundel]

Heheh, but now we have GeForce FX

[Stealth]

Radeon 9700 still 0wns

[Ulundel]

But not as much as FX. Just read an article which also BTW compared it with R9700...

[wEvil]

and my VP pisses on all of them from a great height

[Nico]

Originally posted by wEvil
and my VP pisses on all of them from a great height

oh yeah? play freespace on it and let's benchmark
ok, I would like that one anyway

[wEvil]

aha, but does mental ray see it another CPU and use it for rendering? i think not

its adequate for games, but i dont play many these days at any rate

[CP5670]

still, the insane prices for those pro cards cancel out any rendering benefits they offer; some of those cost more than entire top-level computer systems...