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gf3 ti200 or gf4 ti4200?

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monkied

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Is the 4200 worth the extra bucks? I'm putting it in a system with a 750 mhz athlon slot A. IMO, the cpu is the bottleneck and the gf4 isn't that big of a gain. But its about $40-50 more, so what would you do?
 
i'd stick with a gf3 in that system unless you plan on upgrading the rest of the system soon
$50 is $50, save it towards upgrading the rest of your system later on, and by then, a new generation of cards will probably be out and you can go for that or a gf4 at a lower price
 
Why not a Radeon 8500? GREAT card, better than a GF3 and probably the same amount of money.

You can get a 64 meg LE for 103 shipped at NewEgg. That'd be way better than the GF3 (and not as good as the GF4).

Edit: I can't spell! 🙂
 
If you were to upgrade your processor some time soon, I would go doe the Geforce4 4200. They go for like 150 bucks.

But if you don't plan on upgrading the processor I would get the Radeon 8500 over the GF3 ti200. Both cards are about $100, but the 8500 has a bit more performance.
 
I would spend a little more and get the the Radeon 8500LE 128MB version for $120...........combine this with the latest catalyst drivers and you'll give the 4200 a run for its money.😀

btw...if you are going to get the 4200 make sure to get the 128mb version.....in future games like doom 3.........it will need the extra ram for large textures........you don't want the 64mb ram to become the bottleneck do you?
 
I've had both, and the 4200 is much nicer. I sold my Ti200 for 125 bucks and bought my 4200 for 199, so it wasn't all that costly.

However if you're just dropping the cash either way, go with the Ti200 and overclock it. Get the Gainward, it'll be like Ti500 performance for Ti200 price. 🙂
 
Actually, I did buy the 8500le 64mb 3.3ns radeon from newegg a few weeks ago and it hasn't performed as well as I hoped with counter-strike. thread
I'll give the 8500 another try with my other system with the new catalyst drivers but for this one, I've decided to stick with nvidia.
 
lol it didnt perform in counterstrike???? the card wasnt the problem then...you were the problem. i can play CS on 1600x1200x32 and it runs flawlessly with an r8500. that game is not graphically intensive at all.
 
MrDudeMan, if you read the other thread, others and I have concluded that the system is bottlenecked by the 750 mhz duron. You, however have a 1.6 p4 running. Don't be bashing on someone until you know what's going on.
 
I did two things, I ran a gf2 gts-v on my duron and the 8500 on the duron. The gf2 played better than the 8500. Did you try that exact scenario? Agreed, its not that hardware intensive, but 8500 doesn't play as well as the gf2. Did you actually read the thread?
 
the 4200 is less processor dependent when you look at anand's big gpu shootout. or something like that. even on slower systems its a good percent faster
 
dude you are missing the point. geforce2 is old technology compared to the r8500. you are messing up some settings very badly if you are getting better performance with a gts than a 8500...im sorry to be brutal but you just werent doing something right. it doesnt just suck after so many people love it. i have one and it runs damn smooth on much more involved games than CS on 32 bit color.....

 
I agree, the 8500 runs CS smoothly, at least for me. I have ran it at 1600x1200 very very very smooth. Maybe there was an issue with your chipset and drivers? No idea. But for most ppl, the 8500 runs it flawlessly.

I think the 8500 would be the perfect purchase for monkied with his current system setup.
 
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