Is it worth upgrading from a Leadtek geforce 2 GTS 64mg to a Geforce 3 Ti200 or Radeon 7800?

[BliZzZarD]

Is it worth upgrading from a Leadtek Geforce 2 GTS 64mg to a Geforce 3 Ti200 or Radeon 8500? Plz help me!

 

[Omer]

I'm in the same boat with you -- trying to decide ...

What kind of CPU do you have ?

And for purely synthetic results, do a 3dmark 2001 test. Then look @ 3d accelerator comparison and it will show you percentage wise what improvements you would get with other vid cards including the g3ti200 and the radeon series.

cheers!

 

[BliZzZarD]

My cpu is an Athlon XP 1800+ an Epox 8KHA+ 266a with 512 ddr 2100 ram!

 

[Omer]

what are your needs ?

if it's games, fps types -- then I would say definately go for it ...

for office apps not sure its worthwhile ...

cheers!

 

[BliZzZarD]

Bump!

I play alot of games, but need to know if I will see a difference.

 

[bsauerbr]

I went from a VisionTek GF2 GTS 32 MB to the BB Black Friday Visiontek GF3 Ti200 64MB. BIG difference! I play mostly FPS's and driving games. Q3A is 1600x1200x32, everything cranked up and ~120-150FPS spiking to 250. 4x4 Evo and 1nsane seems smoother but I can ccrank up the eye candy on them also. Just got 4x4 Evo 2 last night which is supposed to take advantage of the GF3 Ti features.

Here's a few reviews I found when looking into the Visiontek GF3 Ti200:
http://www2.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1539&p=1
http://www.slcentral.com/reviews/hardware/video/visiontek/xstasy6964/page3.php
http://www.xbitlabs.com/video/visiontek-titanium/

At the very least you get
1. Memory bandwidth improvement, most Ti200's o/c easily to original GF3 speeds 200/460
2. GF3 Ti h/w features: Vertex and Pixel Shaders, 3D textures, shadow buffers. You're ready for the latest games that use these.

That's my GF3 Ti200 point of view....

EDIT: Another review farther down in today's Video threads GF3 Ti Roundup at TomsHardware

 

[Workin']

I upgraded a Leadtek Geforce 2 Pro to a Gainward Geforce 3 Ti200 and there is quite a difference.

With the GF2 I could only play most games at 1024x768x16, with the GF3 I can play at 1600x1200x32.