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Difference between Ti200 and Ti500

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Questi4110

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I'm not looking to buy...just inquiring


What is the difference (benchmarks, performance, speed, quality) between the Geforce 3 Ti200 and the Geforce 3 Ti500?
Why is the 500 priced a little less than double the price?
Which maker makes the best Geforce 3 Titanium series (elsa, visiontek...etc)
Why is the Radeon 8500 priced so low when it competes with these two (is not as good quality)?


THANKS
 
Ti200 is clocked at 175/400 while the ti500 is clocked at 240/500.

What I want to know is that would the ti200 be on par with the ti500 if the ti200 is clocked at 240/500.
 
Just the clockspeed as he said. No, there would be no difference. If the only thing different between the two is clockspeed, then equalizing the clockspeed should give identical performance. The Radeon 8500 is not of lower quality, it has a few problems in WinXP. However, this isn't purely ATi's fault. There are a lot of drivers for WinXP that aren't quite working as they should. It's just the fact that it's a new OS. Also, not everyone experiences problems. I'm sure nowhere near a majority. ATi is just pricing their card at a more attractive price point because it needs to compete with NVIDIA's big name. I am thinking about getting an 8500 myself. Of course, I am going to wait till after I upgrade a few other things first. Prices will drop in the next few months as they always do.
 


<< so why do they still price the ti500 so much higher than the ti200 >>



Marketing ploy. Not all ti200 can hit the same speed as the ti500. The recent ones by Visiontek looks sweet. Their ti200 is able to hit the ti500 stock mem and core speed.
 
I just got Visiontek's Ti 200. I had it up to 250 MHz core and 500 MHz memory (250/500 has a sort of symmetry to it) running perfectly stable!!!

Though it was only for 30 minutes cause I chickened out. I have read that you can slowly degrade a card with the heat and start getting artifacts that don't go away even after reducing the speed. I'd love to get some opinions on that. I've had it sitting at the original GeForce3's stock speed of 200/460 with no problems for the past day.

So what shall it be? Did I luck out and get a Ti 500 for $112.00 (that would be a nice change - the Athlon 700 and Asus K7M I bought almost two years ago were complete overclocking dogs - in fact, I seemed to get one of Asus's few pieces of true junk - excuse the tangent)? Or would you even risk all that heat?
 
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