Here's a good one for you all: You can only get ONE: GF3 or W2K?

[MichaelD]

My Birthday is next week. I will be treating myself to one of the above.

Coincidentally, it's time to reformat my HD (array, actually) as my 7-month-old install of Win98SE seems to be very upset with the fact that I DL and install about 100megs of UT maps/utilities/other crap every week. I keep getting registry errors, no matter how hard Norton Systemworks works to prevent it.

Coincidentally, my GF2GTS 32mb also ain't (sic) cutting it anymore. I smell an Absolute MORPHEUS cooking in the pot.

I will be paying cash. I know that W2K is cheaper; that's not the issue. I'm talking about bang for buck or "in my best interest." Fire away.

I should ban every person here advocating the burning of Windows 2000. That is considered WAREZ, or STEALING. But I am in a good mood tonight so I will just lock it instead and tell all of you not to bring this issue up again. Consider this your only warning.

AnandTech Moderator

 

[Jfur]

I just did Win2k and would recommend that. I feel so.... clean Then when proces come down you can buy the other

 

[Sketchy]

Get the GF3 and get somebody to hook you up with Win2K.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

win2k

 

[hpkeeper]

I'm with sketchy, Get the Geforce 3... Win2k is burnable.

 

[JACKHAMMER]

<< Get the GF3 and get somebody to hook you up with Win2K. >>



ditto

 

[Freejack2]

Get the GF3, sell your GF2 and use the money to buy win2k.

 

[loup garou]

<< Get the GF3, sell your GF2 and use the money to buy win2k. >>



I agree!

 

[bigbootydaddy]

gf3...you know the rest

burn the booty

 

[Boogak]

No brainer, get the gf3!

 

[MrCodeDude]

GeForce3 Burn Win2K, or get it online at cdrom-guide.com
-- mrcodedude

 

[RDMustang1]

It depends... If you're not against pirating software then get the g3 and burn w2k..
otherwise:
if you're into gaming and don't mind rebooting every day then get the gf3
if you're sorta into gaming and mind rebooting every day then get win2k..

 

[Electric Amish]

Win2K, no doubt!

Who the hell would want a GF3??

amish

 

[ProviaFan]

I agree with many of the others: get the GF3, and locate Windows 2000 from other sources.

 

[NaughtyusMaximus]

Win2K.

 

[Darein]

GF3 all the way.

 

[AMDPwred]

GF3 and burn W2K of course

 

[GenuineGenius]

my G2 GTS is cutting it... Max Payne runs hella smooth

 

[HansXP]

Boy...no one is advocating piracy in this thread...

IMHO, get Win2K. You'll appreciate the stability and speed ALL of the time, where as with a GF3, you'd only appreciate it with games.

Good luck in your decision!

 

[MichaelD]

Thanks much for all the quick and hint-hint-hintful responses. Sigh....if I only knew someone....a friend....a buddy who wouldn't mind letting me copy..................

 

[GhettoFob]

You can't burn a GeForce 3.

 

[HansXP]

<< You can't burn a GeForce 3 >>



Why not just steal one?

 

[datalink7]

Hard choice. I would look around for a copy of win2k to borrow. If you can't find one (look hard), then get win2k. If you can, get the GeForce 3. You can't go wrong with either though.

 

[PsychoAndy]

I say get a GF3 and a &quot;backup copy&quot; of 2k...

 

[FelixDeCat]

Why would anyone bother with win2k? Useless!