Card purchasing? GF3 only.

[Korporativ]

Trying to get people's opinnions on which cards to get? i see the gainward are definately perfered over others. and in benchmarks i do also see that the Ti500s are quite a bit ahead of the game. Now my question being would that Ti500 see that much gain on my AMD Athlon THunderbird 1ghz? I know the Ti200s overclock verry well also. I guess what I'm asking is could you please give advice on wether the Ti500 is worth it over the Ti200 and which brands i should be looking at? I'v read this forum and found a little bit of info but the question begs asking again I feel. Also, what prices on the boards? Currently i'm leaning twords a Gainward Ti200.

 

[Actaeon]

I'm agreeing on the Gainward ti200, I'm running a 1.13 Ghz athlon.

As Soon as I get the Money, I'm going to order the Gainward. I really don't see a need for the ti500, when you can just OC your ti200 just as fast, for $100 less.

Plus, i believe in both our cases, due to our cpu speed, not the slowest, but not the fastest, we won't that huge of a benefit from a ti500 over ti200.

Of course, if you got the money, You can have bragging rights with the Ti500, and OC that mofo to godlyness.

Anyone elses opinion?

 

[Demonic]

Gainward Ti200. I just purchased mine for $139. Why pay double the price for a card that will preform maybe 10% better? I plan to overclock it and see what it can do but I'm running off of a 600mhz Duron right now and am more concearned with getting a new processor first.

 

[mtnbikerjeremiah]

There are computer fairs in some states,

If you pick up an OEM Gforce3 for such system builders that have extra from requests that were cancelled...

say at a fair like this...


Los Angeles Computer Fair


I was able to pick up an Elsa Gladiac 920 with the factory 6 year warranty for $160.00 and it is able to go at currently 240mhz and 545mhz memory clock.

I am definately sure that the Gforce 3 Ti200 can make it past the speed I have on my regular Gforce3.

So go for it..

Gainward and Leadtek make some decent and if not great cards..

PNY I have had problems with...particularly the Gforce 3 Ti200, I took it back.

 

[Korporativ]

Where did you pick up your gainward for $139 if i may ask?