I don't generally go in for the rat race upgrade cycles. I like I having a fast system, but I don't need to be on the bleeding edge. But a friend needed a video upgrade from a Geforce256, so I decided to join in, and we both got Leadtek GF4 Ti4400's. Figured for 230 bucks plus shipping, it was a good deal compared to a 4200 (except for the massive size of these things; our cases are noticeably heavier now).
Anyway I knew it would be a nice upgrade from a GF2-GTS, but not anything that would astound me. I'm not an avid gamer, I like some games but not most, and I can't use anything higher than 1152x864 even on a 19 inch monitor, beyond that I can't see what's happening.
At any rate, what I mostly want to do is gloat, even if it's short lived.
Top 3DMark 2k1 score for my system class.
With the GF2 my scores were usually woefully low, or at least seemed to be, so much so that I assumed something was wrong. (4362 was the score I got when I ran it to compare, which looking now seems to be one of the highest too.)
This is with the 4400 at stock speeds (showing as 552MHz memory in the NVIDIA clock tab). CPU and memory are only overclocked by 36MHz, with a 138MHz bus.
Beyond raw score, since it means little to me, as Unreal Tournament and Civ3 can't really LOOK any better to me, I am massively impressed just with the pixel shader parts of the benchmark itself. I wanted to cry when I saw the ocean scene running. And of course, the GF2 couldn't run those benchmarks.
Anyway I knew it would be a nice upgrade from a GF2-GTS, but not anything that would astound me. I'm not an avid gamer, I like some games but not most, and I can't use anything higher than 1152x864 even on a 19 inch monitor, beyond that I can't see what's happening.
At any rate, what I mostly want to do is gloat, even if it's short lived.
Top 3DMark 2k1 score for my system class.
With the GF2 my scores were usually woefully low, or at least seemed to be, so much so that I assumed something was wrong. (4362 was the score I got when I ran it to compare, which looking now seems to be one of the highest too.)
This is with the 4400 at stock speeds (showing as 552MHz memory in the NVIDIA clock tab). CPU and memory are only overclocked by 36MHz, with a 138MHz bus.
Beyond raw score, since it means little to me, as Unreal Tournament and Civ3 can't really LOOK any better to me, I am massively impressed just with the pixel shader parts of the benchmark itself. I wanted to cry when I saw the ocean scene running. And of course, the GF2 couldn't run those benchmarks.
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