GeForce 3 64M $70 at weirdstuff.com

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GabeyD

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Weirdstuff.com has GeForce 3 64M OEM cards for $70. Seems like a great deal to me if you want a cheap but pretty darn good video card.

I bought one and it works well. I've never bought from them online, but I"ve bought from their Sunnyvale retail store several times and never had any problems.
 
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yddadnarg

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Here's a link to the webpage Weirdstuff.com
Search for 14055 (sorry couldn't get the direct link to work without what looked like a session id)

Anyone know what the P50 part means? I was looking around and couldn't find anything(in english) that made reference to a GeForce P50 except on this page, where down at the bottom it lists a Vision Tek GeForce3 P50 as one that won't fry the i845 board. If it's a decent card I could use this to tide me over until FX prices fall to a reasonable level.
 
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GabeyD

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Well, I have one, so I'd be happy to answer questions. But here is what I know.

No manufacturer info anywhere on the card, and searching by any numbers on the card turned up nothing.

It's an original GeForce 3, ie. 200 MHz core, 460 MHz RAM - havn't played with OC-ing much, but the RAM runs at 500 no problem.

The RAM has heatsinks on it, that I don't want to remove, so I can't tell you what it is.

It looks exactly like the picture that is on their web site.

I don't use the TV-out, so I don't know what it does, but I could check the TV encoder chip and let eveyone know what chip it is.
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Mallow

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hrm... no reviews on reseller rattings eh? Do you feel lucky punk? Well, do ya? Ok, enough Clint Eastwood impressions. Seems like a great deal, just wish they had some heat :p
 
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vexingv

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not to thread crap or anything...but i think a radeon8500le still performs better than a gf3 and u can get those for aboyt 70-80 at many places
 
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hrm... no reviews on reseller rattings eh? Do you feel lucky punk? Well, do ya? Ok, enough Clint Eastwood impressions. Seems like a great deal, just wish they had some heat
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My statistically insignificant experience was that they were alright. Ordered a PSU and HSF and got them reasonably quickly.
 
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deramon

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Looks like it is worth the $$ to me. And also pricewatch shows it as the lowest price. Listed as a generic card, so probably the mfger is not well known, but the drivers would be easy to find anyway. And better than Jaton I am sure.
 
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unclebud

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i have them right now - gf3 w cel 1.0 ghz homebuilt and 98 768mb ddr samsung = 98.3 fps
8500 le w cel 1.3 compaq with xp 512mb sdram infineon = 121.7 fps
these are the best i've gotten so far in high quality with all game options turned off -- but i'm gonna hit it again with the new drivers i got from nvidia's page tonight
anyway, pretty similar performance is all i'm saying
this is a good deal for a card that will run ut2k3 smoothly...
carmack says it will be good for doom 3 also -- but he's a backslider imo :(

 
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lzpoof

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Originally posted by: deramon
Looks like it is worth the $$ to me. And also pricewatch shows it as the lowest price. Listed as a generic card, so probably the mfger is not well known, but the drivers would be easy to find anyway. And better than Jaton I am sure.
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The manufacturer is almost a given as visiontek, since they made nvidia's test boards and this is nearly identical to a visiontek board also.
 
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unclebud

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tru dat. i just opened up the case on mine and the only difference seems to be that the sinks/fan are purple instead of green...
 
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merlocka

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GF3 is still a great card, and there are still those who prefer nVidia drivers to ATI.

Also note that they have the Diamond Viper2 Z200 Savage2000 card for $30, for those who prefer S3 drivers to nVidia or ATI ;)
 
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JoeFoster

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So how is the s-video card on this? I've been wanting to get an video-out card so I could use my computer as a dvd player to my tv. So the radeon8500le performs better. Wheres the best price on this card and does it come with video out?
 
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lzpoof

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Originally posted by: OS
Originally posted by: Mallow
how would this GeForce3 compair to this 64MB GeForce4 MX440SE?
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slaughters it
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It's funny that the mx440 can't even come close to the ti200 (not as hard to believe when you realize a mx440 is really just a gf2). They got rid fo MX's around gf3 and I don't think anyone minded. Now they 'bring them back' and they aren't based relatively on same core as the mainstream product. If you can only spend as much as MX440, get a radeon or a Ti200. You may as well get performance or visual quality over neither.
 
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DTBH

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Originally posted by: unclebud
i have them right now - gf3 w cel 1.0 ghz homebuilt and 98 768mb ddr samsung = 98.3 fps
8500 le w cel 1.3 compaq with xp 512mb sdram infineon = 121.7 fps
these are the best i've gotten so far in high quality with all game options turned off -- but i'm gonna hit it again with the new drivers i got from nvidia's page tonight
anyway, pretty similar performance is all i'm saying
this is a good deal for a card that will run ut2k3 smoothly...
carmack says it will be good for doom 3 also -- but he's a backslider imo :(
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maybe you could plug the gf3 into the 8500 machine and bench it :). nicer comparison this way.

 
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