GeForce 256 --> Geforce 2 PRO?

[KEV1N]

Hey All, I just went nuts at Fry's and picked up a 1.4 T-Bird / Soyo Dragon Combo, and I've ordered 512 MB DDR ram from Crucial. The thing is, my video card is a Geforce 256, The Guillemot 3d Prophet. Is this going to be a major bottleneck considering how much power my system has? Is it worth it to upgrade my video card, or rather than be a bottleneck will my system make up for my old card?

 

[jeffrey]

If that's the sdr GeForce, I'd buy a GeForce 2 PRO and sell your old card in the forums. System sounds great so far!

 

[KEV1N]

Ordered the Gainward GF2 for $147 from newegg. Thanks!

 

[ssrgp0]

^^ Bump for the Soyo and t-bird 1.4 combo, let us know how high you can O/C to.....

 

[Taylorm]

my geforce ddr runs everything i throw at it in 1024x768 with my setup

 

[The_Lurker]

<< my geforce ddr runs everything i throw at it in 1024x768 with my setup >>


I'm kinda suprised, didn't think the GeForce would last that long. Does it benchmark fsater than the GF 2 MX?

 

[BFG10K]

Does it benchmark fsater than the GF 2 MX?

Heck yeah. A GF DDR is much faster than a GF2 MX.

 

[Jethro666]

Yes a GF1 DDR does bench better than a GF2 MX. Because SDR RAM suxors unless it's one of those "golden sample" ultra high MHz SDRs, and it still pretty much suxors compared to Pro/Ultra.]

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1266&p=9
Check out the Q3 10X7X32!
DDR 65fps MX 43fps


http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1340&p=7
MDK 10X7X32
DDR 93fps MX 69fps

I'd say that is a pretty clear picture of the value of memory bandwidth and why any MX is a POS compared to any DDR. The guys that shelled out $300 for DDRs almost THREE YEARS AGO still have a usable card that's faster than all the crap MXs, V5s, and all the Radeons except one. (and it's close to that one) That is a pretty amazing longevity.

 

[gtd2000]

However, a GF256 SDR is not faster than an MX...I know!
I went from Riva 128 - TNT - GF256 - then upgraded to an MX 2 with -5ns RAM running at 210/230 way better than the GF256SDR 😉
3Dmark2000 of 5650 - hell my GF2 Pro at 250/460 only gets around 6000 with a Duron at 700Mhz!