Originally posted by: ts3433
Your GF2 Ultra may be marginally better (the GF4MX is pretty much a GF2MX).
Originally posted by: Azzy64
tbh, for a budget of <$100, id only buy on ebay, 9700 Pro off ebay is your best bet. If you buy retail at that budget, you'll get ripped... 5000 are not good, and 9600s are weak. The 9700p will play any game out there at the mo
Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: Azzy64
tbh, for a budget of <$100, id only buy on ebay, 9700 Pro off ebay is your best bet. If you buy retail at that budget, you'll get ripped... 5000 are not good, and 9600s are weak. The 9700p will play any game out there at the mo
What about This Card?
Originally posted by: Azzy64
Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: Azzy64
tbh, for a budget of <$100, id only buy on ebay, 9700 Pro off ebay is your best bet. If you buy retail at that budget, you'll get ripped... 5000 are not good, and 9600s are weak. The 9700p will play any game out there at the mo
What about This Card?
no ..no no no no ..:l the whole 5xxx series is really not very good, and doesnt run DX9 properly, and the 5600 is one of the worst.. honestly,do yourself a favour and purchase a 9700pro off ebay.. there is no risk if you buy off a reputable seller like "Retek," whom i bought mine off, and was very pleased![]()
Originally posted by: SagaLore
There is a Geforce 4 TI4800SE for the same price as that 5600 card. I looked at some benchmarks and it outperforms the 5600 as well...
(...) I might as well wait for the PCIXpress boards and buy the 6600GT then, and just live with a cheaper socket A board using the onboard GF4 MX.
I'm not a gamer, but I would like to start playing Everquest again or the WoW that everyone is talking about. I mostly use the computer for web design.
Originally posted by: Kiwi
Now that you can get the 5700/5900 cards for more reasonable prices, their performance still lags behind various ATI Radeons from a year and a half ago. Generally speaking, the FX's fell short of the DX9 capability that the later model Radeons offered, but the FX's still in the retail channel now do tend to sell for less than the ATI- based cards of their own generation to which they more or less compare.
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Originally posted by: Kiwi
Originally posted by: SagaLore
There is a Geforce 4 TI4800SE for the same price as that 5600 card. I looked at some benchmarks and it outperforms the 5600 as well...
(...) I might as well wait for the PCIXpress boards and buy the 6600GT then, and just live with a cheaper socket A board using the onboard GF4 MX.
I'm not a gamer, but I would like to start playing Everquest again or the WoW that everyone is talking about. I mostly use the computer for web design.
The GF 4's were the best there was about two and a half to three years ago, with the 4800 Ultra as top of the heap, but the card everyone would buy was the Ti 4200, because at a reasonable cost, it could still be overclocked, into more or less Ti-4600 territory. When the 5th nVidia GPU series came out, the cards they were used in were overpriced and underpowered, for the most part. The FX card roughly equivalent to a Ti 4200 is an FX 5700, although the overclocking situation doesn't apply to it. The FX 5900 would be roughly equivalent to a Ti 4600, and an FX 5950 is more or less where the Ti-4800 was.
Now that you can get the 5700/5900 cards for more reasonable prices, their performance still lags behind various ATI Radeons from a year and a half ago. Generally speaking, the FX's fell short of the DX9 capability that the later model Radeons offered, but the FX's still in the retail channel now do tend to sell for less than the ATI- based cards of their own generation to which they more or less compare.
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