Best ~$150 nvidia video card...

[w0lf42]

I am looking at dropping ~$150 on a video card for a system for a friend. (I previously posted for suggestions on a <$100 card, but decided to step this up).

This will go into a system that has:
Asus A7V
AMD Thunderbird 700MHz
Crucial 256MB PC133
Lite On 52x24x52 CDRW Model LTR-52246S
Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card Model LNE100TX
Antec 300W ATX12V Power Supply
(Not sure what the hard drive is off the top of my head)

I currently use an Albatron Ti4200P Turbo on MY system and was thinking of getting the card below:
ALBATRON GeForce 4 TI4280P (NVIDIA GeForce4 TI4200 GPU),8X AGP 128MB DDR, DVI+VGA TV-Out. w/DVI adaptor $155 (shipped).

any suggestions?

 

[KidChaos]

Your graphics card is fine. The CPU is the bottleneck.

 

[KidChaos]

You could upgrade your computer in phases:

Phase 1:
Epox 8RDA+ $99
TwinMos 256MB PC3200 memory module $59

Phase 2:
AMD Athlon XP 1700+ TBred-B $58
*second* TwinMos 256MB PC3200 memory module

Then, overclock like mad, if you wish.

 

[w0lf42]

Not sure if I am clear on this one....

The system that I use currently has the Albatron Ti4200P Turbo. But I am building out a system with the parts I listed for someone else.

I'm not going to upgrade the motherboard nor the cpu (considering the point of this is to build a system for a friend with spare parts).

So I am asking about video cards for the system with the Asus K7V and AMD Thunderbird 700MHz.

thanks.

 

[KidChaos]

My apologies Sir. In that case, it would be better to go with a Ati 9000 Pro or ATi 8500 as the stated system is quite CPU limited. Card would cost less than $100 either way.

 

[w0lf42]

KidChaos,

No appologies needed. I'm just happy to get some suggestions. I saw the confusion with my first post and just tried to write a straight foreward response to clear up any confusion.

Thanks!

 

[novice]

How about picking up a Duron 1.3 gig OEM from newegg for about $39 shipped, and a Geforce 4 Ti4200 64mb card for $110 shipped. If you are determined to stay with the Athlon 700 (it will be the bottleneck for the system's performance), then I would suggest a geforce 3 or Radeon 8500LE and save your friend the extra $60 to $80 for the next bout of upgrading. I still think the better option would include a CPU upgrade and video card upgrade to Geforce 3 or Radeon 8500LE.
If your friend's board doesn't support the morgan core Durons, he should still be able to score a 1.1 gig T-Bird from newegg for about $50 for a nice 50% gain in clock speed. That would still leave over $100 left, which would be enough for a Sapphire Tech 128 mb Radeon 8500LE.

 

[fluxquantum]

i just recently bought an albatron geforce 4 TI4280PV. it's a nice card. i overclocked my p4 1.6(a) to 2.1 GHz and that seems to decrease the bottleneck.