Hrm...I'm a little unsettled. After the article with the 8500's new drivers I was sold on it, especially after cross-referencing with the original test to compare it to the standard Geforce3 and Geforce3 Ti200 (both of which it beat) and the *much* cheaper cost ($130, if you believe that - btw rumour has it the OEM 8500's are clocked slower than retail - how much and what does a retail cost?) Anyway, after the more recent article concerning the details behind SmoothVision and enabling anisoptric filtering on the Gf3 Ti500, I'm back to wanting the 500 since it's clearly the better card. The thing is, I'm having trouble justifying the $130 extra it will cost me...that's 2 weeks' work! (Yeah, I'm poor, stfu.) So I was wondering about this overclocking the Ti200 which seems to be popular. Supposedly you can get it to Ti500 speeds? How safe is it and how effective? In other words, if I did that could I just pretend it's a 500 and expect the same performance, or at least very nearly so? I'm a little doubtful that any real advantage is gained...please explain!
-LDH
P.S. If there's a string hidden deep in the forums somewhere that I didn't find that deals with this, please direct me instead of just not replying to this post, thanks.
-LDH
P.S. If there's a string hidden deep in the forums somewhere that I didn't find that deals with this, please direct me instead of just not replying to this post, thanks.
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