My Ti4600 is fried - what's equivalent these days?

[orion21]

I've been out the vid card arena for a while. My Ti4600 fried this week. What is equivalent these days? I don't need any more power than what that had, I just don't want to downgrade.......

 

[Mloot]

My guess would be something like a 9600 Pro/XT or an Nvidia FX 5700.

 

[Rage187]

6600 or 6600gt

 

[kurt454]

6600 is cheap and more powerful than your Ti4600.

 

[orion21]

6600 - is that ATI?

 

[dguy6789]

A Radeon 9600 Pro would be a bit faster than your ti4600 if you wanted something of similar performance.

A geforce 6600GT would be somewhere along the lines of two and a half to three times as fast.

 

[orion21]

wait - I see it is nvidia.
Thanks.

 

[PingSpike]

equivilent speed with dx9 support is probably 9600pro or XT.

6600 is nvidia. Don't buy that though, the 9800pro is in the same price range and is a better buy it seems.

 

[VIAN]

I'd get the 6600. Good card for replacement.

$113

 

[phaxmohdem]

Originally posted by: VIAN
I'd get the 6600. Good card for replacement.

$113

Agreed, less driver headaches this way and its a good card. You won't miss your GF4 if you replace it with this

 

[PrayForDeath]

Um, what driver headaches do you speak of? I'd say you should get a 9800Pro instead of a 6600 since they're both roughly the same price and the pro is way faster. A 9600Pro/XT would be enough for you though. (under 100$)

 

[Brian48]

As far drivers go, I'd rate ATI's higher than nVidia's these days.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Brian48
As far drivers go, I'd rate ATI's higher than nVidia's these days.

Heh, I wouldn't go THAT far

I've had no probs with either except non-video card products like TV tuner cards, which I despise from ATI.

 

[Munky]

If you can get a 9800pro or a 6600 for the same price, the 9800p is definitely faster. I wouldnt get a 6600 unless I could find one for $100 or less, it's not worth more than that. But either one should be a good replacement card for a 4600.

 

[RobsTV]

Originally posted by: Brian48
As far drivers go, I'd rate ATI's higher than nVidia's these days.

 

[TomKazansky]

Originally posted by: orion21
6600 - is that ATI?

this is signature material.

 

[junitjam123]

get the card that killed the ti4600
the radeon 9700 pro

 

[OnEMoReTrY]

Originally posted by: RobsTV

Originally posted by: Brian48
As far drivers go, I'd rate ATI's higher than nVidia's these days.

 

[PingSpike]

Yeah, I was recently looking at the 6600s for AGP. They are the same price as 9800pros, which are a better card by a solid margin. Just like the 9800pros weren't competitively priced with the 6600gt out there this time last year, the 6600 isn't competitvely priced with the 9800pro out there at its price right now.

 

[kurt454]

Didn't some place have the 6600's for sale around $77 awhile ago?

Nevermind. I guess that was for the pci-e version.

 

[Sunrise089]

Originally posted by: infestedgh0st

Originally posted by: orion21
6600 - is that ATI?

this is signature material.

Honest mistake if you don't follow video cards closely. Nvidia didn't previously use just numbers, it was always TI4600 or FX5700, while ATI used numbers alone for the 9000 series.

 

[John2583]

I recently upgraded my system and now I have my old rig that I was thinking into making a guest gaming rig so that people could come over and play UT2004, Counter Strike/CS:Source, etc and I wanted to upgrade the video card to a something that would cost between $40-$60 Ideally around $50 shipped. I've been seeing a lot of Ti4600's on ebay going for around $30-70. I did some research and it seems this was teh hot card in 2002, so I know it was once a top dog. I was wondering if this is a good choice. A friend suggested I get this because it's new and about the same price:
XFX GeForce FX 5500 / 256MB DDR / AGP 8X / VGA / DVI / TV Out / Video Card
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications...tails.asp?EdpNo=1179550&Tab=0&NoMapp=0 I assume the Ti4600 doesn't do DirectX 9, but it does have a 300+ MHz clock(depending on overclock) and the FX 5500 only has a 270 MHz core clock.. ATi cards are not an option because I will be using Linux as well as windows on this rig. The rig this card will go in is an Asus A7N8X Deluxe board with an Athlon 1800 XP+ and 2x256 MB PC2700.

 

[Eureka]

6600 for 113 is not worth it when you can get a 6600GT for $120.

Right now a 9600XT would do fine, but I'd get a 6600GT and have the extra power.

Norm

 

[Mem]

Agreed, less driver headaches this way and its a good card. You won't miss your GF4 if you replace it with this

Hehe I had no problem with my ATI 9700np over last few years ,I went back to Nvidia few weeks ago and have had driver problems already,infinite loop error(thank you Nvidia never had that with ATI).

Btw this is on a new PC with fresh OS install,anyway at least my games still run ok,had the odd artifact driver glitch.

 

[Corporate Thug]

9800 pro ftw