Hi all, a few questions to ask and comments needed

[Gigglesby]

Firstly, I am new here, nice to meet you all.

I've been search around for a new video card lately, I've got an older machine, a P3 1.1ghz, with 384 RAM to be exact. I'm getting a brand new rig next fall, probably the first one I will build myself, so yay.

But I need some opinions. I was looking around for a cheap, but high quality card that would suit my machine, and my playstyle.

That being. I never turn on AF, or FSAA, I never crank high resolutions, and I won't be playing many (or maybe any) DX9 games on this machine.

With this in mind, several folks told me the Geforce 4 ti4200 was a fantastic budget card.

So, I went ahead and ordered one tonight, a refurbished one from NewEgg to be exact, I'm not picky, so buying used from a respectable site isn't an issue for me, buying used from these random pricewatch dealers would be, haha.

Anyhow, this is what I got, so what do you think? Solid deal? Good card?

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...factory=1283&Type=Refurbish&sortby=14&order=1

I've been asking this around, since I don't have a lot of money to spend, but have a few games I'd really like to play. All comments, or bits of advice are welcome.

 

[modedepe]

$69 for a 128mb ti4200--good deal. Should pretty much max out your current rig.

Btw, welcome to the forums

 

[MichaelZ]

i totally agree. ti4200 is the ultimate budget card. i personally amt he proud owner of 2 Ti cards. i dont play DX9 and don't use AA and AF.

oh BTW, DX9 games will still work on DX8 cards anyway so not a real worry there. i got Gun Metal and it runs fine on my Ti4800 system with P4 2.4. i will recommend Ti's highly.

with ur CPU ur basically getting the max our of that system. definatly a good buy.

 

[rbV5]

several folks told me the Geforce 4 ti4200 was a fantastic budget card.

They told you right...nice buy. Welcome to AT! My ti4200 refurb from Newegg has been chugging along nicely for a couple months now. It'll scale pretty well when you upgrade your rig, so you won't have to upgrade your card right away unless a game you want to play requires it. It should handle DX9 titles OK too using a DX8 codepath, at least initially.