Ocing Geforce3. Alternative to buying new card??

[FFactory0x]

Well im stuck now between a new gfx card or not. Im running a p4 1.8,geforce3 visiontek. Got last september when they came out.
Reason is, i wanted to get new cpu and mobo and video card but now that i added another 128mb pc800 ram games seems a lot smoother (a lot). Now have 384mb.

What you do. Overhaul and get new card + cpu etc. Or keep mine and oc it.

If i oc it do i need a new heatsink etc? What default clock speeds? and whats a good oc clock speed. I just moved my system to an Antec 835 ccase which has 2 fans in the read to pull out heat plus the ps has a big one

 

[BoomAM]

Depends on how much cash you have available.
The capibilites of your motherboard, CPU upgrade wise.

 

[Guspaz]

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw a 500% performance increase (AA+aniso) switching to a Radeon 9800 Pro. Considering the 9800 Pro is 250-350% faster than a GeForce 4 Ti 4600... (Again, 4xAA+8xAniso)

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: Guspaz
I wouldn't be surprised if you saw a 500% performance increase (AA+aniso) switching to a Radeon 9800 Pro. Considering the 9800 Pro is 250-350% faster than a GeForce 4 Ti 4600... (Again, 4xAA+8xAniso)

But he has a 1.8... i dunno if thats even enough to max out a 9700 Pro... Toms Hardware did a cpu scaling test with different videocards here. Granted they were running it at 1024x768 only... that should be enough to give a somewhat ballpark figure on the improvement you'll expect from different video cards... dunno about AA and aniso though...

 

[Guspaz]

But he has a 1.8... i dunno if thats even enough to max out a 9700 Pro... Toms Hardware did a cpu scaling test with different videocards here. Granted they were running it at 1024x768 only... that should be enough to give a somewhat ballpark figure on the improvement you'll expect from different video cards... dunno about AA and aniso though...[/quote]

I'm not sure if this is correct, but I'd assume that the higher you set the quality (aniso, FSAA, truform, etc), the less the CPU would matter, since the CPU does the same amount of work. I think.

 

[BoomAM]

I remember reading a article a while back shich showed that the CPU speed where the 9700 became the limiting factor was about 4ghz. That was on a OC`d P4.
So even if you brought a 3ghz p4, or a XP3000, you`d still be cpu limited.

I have a XP1800, and i get great frame rates with my 9700PRO. Even with FSAA/AF on. So your P4 should be fine, cos they are around the same speed.