Geforce3 ti200 overclocking question

[freeway]

My brother has a TNT2 Ultra in his system now. He wants to upgrade it so he can play games like Morrowind with full detail and speed. He does not have much money to spend. From reading posts, it would seem that a Geforce3 ti200 is the way to go, because the Geforce4 MX's dont have enough features (pixel shading) and the Geforce4 ti4200 is too expensive. I have found three Geforce3 ti cards. A chaintech and Visiontek are $110 with shipping and a gainward Golden Sample is $131 with shipping. He would like to overclock the card close to a ti500. Is it worth the extra $20 for the Gainward? If not which one is better, the chaintech (retail) or Visiontek (OEM)?

 

[sMashPiranha]

Get the Gainward. Gainward Golden Samples have faster RAM than everyone else. I'm pretty sure the Gainward Ti 200 Golden Sample has 4ns RAM, so it is spec'd to run at 500mhz (Ti500 RAM speed).

 

[CubicZirconia]

Just know that unless your brother has a high end cpu he still won't be able to run the game very well with details maxed.

 

[freeway]

He ordered the Gainward from newegg today. He has a 1ghz Athlon AXIA, but he won't overclock it, however he wants to overclock the video card - go figure. Thanks for the help.

 

[DREWxBLOOD]

I don't know how much RAM he has, but tell him to expect 15-20 avg fps in Morrowind. That's about what I get and my specs seem pretty similar. It's playable, but that's also not with all the detail stuff turned up.

 

[CubicZirconia]

Yeah, 1 gig isn't nearly enough to run this game with details maxed.

 

[dethman]

Originally posted by: freeway
He ordered the Gainward from newegg today. He has a 1ghz Athlon AXIA, but he won't overclock it, however he wants to overclock the video card - go figure. Thanks for the help.

lame, he should be able to get at least 1.33GHz out of that AXIA.