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one of the GeForce 3's or a Radeon 8500? and why?

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OOBradm

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I have a GeForce2 mx400 right now, and Im looking to get a new card. I will be making 200 dollars over spring break to spend on pc stuff. I am going to get a new sound system too, just a cheap new PCI card and a 2.1 speaker setup. I figure this will cost about 70. That leaves me with 130. I can probably dig up maybe another 50 bucks somewhere.

So, I have 180 dollars to spend on a new vid card..what should I get?



my system:
AMD athlon xp1600+
384 mg sd ddr ram
60gig IBM @ 7200 rpm
FIC Ad11 mobo
Geforce 2 mx400

 
Geforce 3 Ti200 - about $120, and it overclocks well

Or

ATI Radeon 8500 - you can find one for probably around $140. Personally I think the extra $20 is worth it, as these cards are faster than the Ti200, and overclockable as well. Plus their drivers are pretty solid now.
 
I was just in your shoes!
Lastnight i purchased the Radeon 8500 from newegg for 155+10 s/h
Read some reviews and benchmarks.
The Radeon eats most all G3 Ti200 and many of the 500.
I was hesitant about the drivers but the choice was pretty clear for me.
Ditched my GF2 Pro.


 
I'm stuck between these 2:

Leadtek GeForce3 Ti200
- 128 mb
- 1024 x 768 tv out res.
- VGA, TV, and DVI out
- $156

ATI Radeon 8500 Retail
- 64 mb
- 800 x 600 tv out res.
- VGA, TV, and DVI out
- $155

Which would you choose?
 
I am in a simlar situation. I like the Gainward Ti200 best so far for about $150 shipped. Should I get it? Or go Radeon?
 
any other opinions?

and drummerboy...by the stats you gave me, the Geforce beats the radeon in every area, and it only costs 1 dollar more...so by what you gave me I would choose the geforce
 


<< any other opinions?

and drummerboy...by the stats you gave me, the Geforce beats the radeon in every area, and it only costs 1 dollar more...so by what you gave me I would choose the geforce >>



Everything I've read so far says that the extra 64MB of memory has little to no effect on overall game performance as no current game needs that much ram and I don't think many games arriving in the near future need it either.

Also, you get better DVD playback with the ATI Radeon, if that's a concern for you. Plus people always say the the 2D quality of the ATI cards outshines all the NVIDIA cards. And most benchmarks show the Radeon 8500 outperforming the Geforce3 Ti200's and is more on par with the Ti500's.

However, the nice thing about the Visiontek card that was posted by Drumminboy is that it has a higher possible resolution when outputting to tv--although I always thought that TV's couldn't handle more than 640x480 or 800x600, but I am probably wrong.

Unless you're going to be outputting the video signal to a tv at all, I'd go with the Radeon. But that's just my opinion. Happy shopping!

~tdawg
 
A 128 meg geforce 3 won't make any noticeable difference in games (except if you're dealing with really, really large textures).

The Radeon will outperform it. And the 1024x786 TV-out resolution is useless unless you've got HDTV. Even the 8500's 800x600 is larger than regular TV resolution.

I say get the Radeon 8500. I have one, and couldn't be happier. Of course, that makes me a little biased 😉 but its just my two cents.
 
Hold the phone
geforce cards are the leader for games, in the next few weeks you will see a gef4 ti 4200($199 msrp) and it should push the price of gef3 tixxx
cards into the low price.
so hold on to your cash fo a bit longer and watch the hot deals section of the forum.
i saw a $16 dolby 5.1 sound card on there a while back
 
alright, I just read this arcticle which benched all sorts of tests with the GeForce3 ti-500/200 and the Radeon 8500. The radeon seems to suffer at lower resolutions , but at highers resolution it benches right behind the ti-500.
The AA on the radeon looked better, but had a higher fps cost. The ti-500/200's anistropic filtering was much much better than the radeons.
The only thing that is keeping me from getting a ti-500 is the price....what is the price difference between the 2?
 
faster ram, but i have read you can O/C the ti200 to within 10Mhz of the ti500 but like i said wait and see what effect the ti4200 has on prices
 
Still seem pretty close....Any ideas when the Ti4200 will come out for sure? I have about a month and a half or so....Should be out by then I would think right? Anyone seen the specs on it?
 
I was holding out on 4200 since it's rumored it'd come out in a few weeks, but I just couldn't wait anymore, and I picked up a Radeon 8500 64 MB
today earlier.

I didn't see the need to spend $300 for a video card, as you can get a good one for $200.

The choice I have is 4200 vs 8500. I was afriad of 8500 at first because if its driver issue, but they are releasing drivers that are getting better
and better and fix most of the problem. Not to mention the Radeon has dual monitor output with DVI, and great 2D and DVD and TV-out quality.

I am running at 1600 X 1200 now, and the text quality is excellent. I haven't played with the other features yet, but for the price I paid for
Radeon 8500, I am very happy with it.

You can hold out for 4200 if you can wait, since it'll be around $200 also. But you can't go wrong with Radeon 8500 because of the price and
features it offers.
 
I hate choices!!!!!!!!!!!! I guess after I get my 200 I will get the one I can afford (which will prob be the radeo unless the 4200 comes out in a week.........) If I OCed a Geforce 3 ti200, I would need a fan, right?
 
what drummerboy left out is that the radeon has 275MHz DDR RAM while the Ti200 has 200MHz DDR RAM. while its common that the Ti200 can get its ram up to 250MHz, the radeon is guaranteed to be 10% more bandwidth than that, and can overclock higher. and bandwidth is almost everything in 3D graphics. the only useful thing of 128 MB is really high resoltion 4xFSAA, where the frame buffer gets huge.
 
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