- Dec 18, 2001
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Where I work, we get these awards accompanied by fake money, and after some accumulation you can either buy company paraphanalia (like a shirt with our logo, or coffee mug) or exchange it for gift certicates at a store. I've gotten 47 proc-bucks stacked up, which is equivilent to $235. I'm gonna blow it on a new video card.
Last year I built my system with some of the best parts, but I decided to not blow the $300 on a new Geforce3, and got a cheaper Geforce2 Ultra golden sample made by Gainward. I looked at all the benchmarks and it seemed that the gainward brand would do the best for my system, but it seems it's just not satisfying me. Their website SUCKS horribly, if I had seen it before the purchase I'd have gone with another brand. My realtime benchmarking for my card is playing Everquest, and it's just not good enough. And the Detonator drivers detect the card as a GTS so I'm afraid I'm losing the benefits of it being an Ultra Golden Sample.
So, do I stick with nvidia, and go with a Geforce4 card, or get one of the new Radeons? Every review I've read and benchmark I've looked at, shows that geforce still wins out... but I've seen someone post before that regardless of the benchmarks, the Radeon gives a better quality picture to look at. so what do I do?
Or maybe someone can explain how I get my ultra golden sample working top notch like it's supposed to, and I'll save the $235 on something else.
Last year I built my system with some of the best parts, but I decided to not blow the $300 on a new Geforce3, and got a cheaper Geforce2 Ultra golden sample made by Gainward. I looked at all the benchmarks and it seemed that the gainward brand would do the best for my system, but it seems it's just not satisfying me. Their website SUCKS horribly, if I had seen it before the purchase I'd have gone with another brand. My realtime benchmarking for my card is playing Everquest, and it's just not good enough. And the Detonator drivers detect the card as a GTS so I'm afraid I'm losing the benefits of it being an Ultra Golden Sample.
So, do I stick with nvidia, and go with a Geforce4 card, or get one of the new Radeons? Every review I've read and benchmark I've looked at, shows that geforce still wins out... but I've seen someone post before that regardless of the benchmarks, the Radeon gives a better quality picture to look at. so what do I do?
Or maybe someone can explain how I get my ultra golden sample working top notch like it's supposed to, and I'll save the $235 on something else.