Video Card going

[lsvtec]

I bought the GeForce FX5200 and I was very dissapointed with it. This time around I stepped up to the Radeon 9800 XT, it should be here in a couple of days. I'll let you know how it works then.

 

[phunky.buddha]

Originally posted by lsvtec@Jun 14 2004, 03:05 PM
I bought the GeForce FX5200 and I was very dissapointed with it. This time around I stepped up to the Radeon 9800 XT, it should be here in a couple of days. I'll let you know how it works then.

Oh noooessss!!! He can't stop spending!

 

[lsvtec]

After swapping the card for my friends 9600XT (just to see) I realized that a. my card was actually the FX5600 and b. It still sucked major ass. This system runs the far cry demomuch smoother, Morrowind is worthplaying because I don't have to wait for thevideo card to catch up. Until you get into the 59XX or 6800 cards, theNVidia cards are pretty lame.

 

[phunky.buddha]

w00t

The older nVidia cards are still good- you just have to figure out that most of the 5600 and previous cards in the 5xxx range are actually slower than the GF4 Ti series.

 

[K2e2vin]

lsvtec do you know the pipeline bandwidth of the video card? some of the nvidia video cards have small pipelines, while others have big. for example; some geforce fx5200 come with 64bit pipelines, while others have 128bit. this makes a big difference. i compared fps on half-life with the day of defeat mod with my cousins fx5200. his card is 64bit and running a p4 2.54(??)Ghz hyper threaded cpu w/ 256mb ram, while my card is 128bit on amd duron 1.4ghz w/ 640mb ram. both cards are 128mb and 8x agp. in the same resolution(1024x786 32-bit, opengl, 2xAA, 2x Anisotropic) i get 60fps while he gets around 40-45fps.

 

[Slo86GT]

If you want something VERY basic that works really well, get one of these:

http://www.technoyard.com/hardware/video_c...gf3/page_1.html

There are 3 of em on ebay right now that are going for $10-$20.

I've had mine for 3 years now, and it cruises along at 1600x1200 resolution all day every day, and I've never had a glitch out of it, and it looks really good on my 19" Sony Trinitron CRT.

I can't believe I paid $250 back then for this card, but it's really been a good one.

 

[DarkHand]

Originally posted by SiR Kid@Jun 15 2004, 05:44 AM
I can't believe I paid $250 back then for this card, but it's really been a good one.

It seems like yesterday I paid $199 for my Monster Voodoo 1 card, and nearly $300 for the Pentium 233MMX it ran with.

 

[lsvtec]

Originally posted by K2e2vin@Jun 15 2004, 03:47 AM
lsvtec do you know the pipeline bandwidth of the video card? some of the nvidia video cards have small pipelines, while others have big. for example; some geforce fx5200 come with 64bit pipelines, while others have 128bit. this makes a big difference. i compared fps on half-life with the day of defeat mod with my cousins fx5200. his card is 64bit and running a p4 2.54(??)Ghz hyper threaded cpu w/ 256mb ram, while my card is 128bit on amd duron 1.4ghz w/ 640mb ram. both cards are 128mb and 8x agp. in the same resolution(1024x786 32-bit, opengl, 2xAA, 2x Anisotropic) i get 60fps while he gets around 40-45fps.

No, I am not sure what the size of the pipeline is.