Should I buy a TNT 2 Ultra for $30??

[Harrisment]

A friend is selling me his old card for this price, should I jump all over it??

 

[Rigoletto]

Stop trying to make me feel jealous.
Kiss my ass.
(This is HARRASS-MENT)

 

[Brian48]

$30? What's wrong with it? Did his dog chew it up? If not, hell yeah. I've got two GeForces and don't need another video, but at that price, I'd pick it up myself.

 

[duragezic]

Yeah I would. If you don't need it even, turn around and sell it for $50 (?) on the FS/FT forum!

 

[shabby]

Gee i thought for a second that the topic said $300 dollars

 

[Harrisment]

Ok guys, thanks....

Will the performance be decent? It's gonna be with a Tbird 800. Also, which drivers should i use?

 

[shabby]

Performance will be _ok_, but nothing mind boggling. It'll run games just fine at 800x600/1024x768 16bit color, dont even think about 32bit

 

[PlunX]

The performance will be just a bit better than that of a Voodoo3 3000 card. If it works but doesn't have a fan and/or heatsink on it, stick one on and overclock it real good. Do you know what brand of card that is? Creative, Elsa, MicroStar, etc.?

 

[ArMs]

Go for it man, I'm still stuck with my TNT And if he has anymore "old" stuff, could you drop my name by any chance?

 

[snow patrol]

What graphics card do you have at the moment?

 

[Deslok]

My opinion:
Ultra vs. V3 2000, 3000
Better colors and ok framerates in 32 bit.
CS was very playable.
For 30 bucks, do you even need to ask this question?

 

[BFG10K]

What video card have you got now? Still with a Tbird 800 your system will scream as long as you have any half-decent video card.

For $30 I say go for it. My friend has a normal 16 MB TNT2 and it works very well for him. He runs Quake 3, Halflife and UT and they run fine. Plus the image quality on it is far better than the Voodoo 3.

 

[kylebisme]

i saw a Aopen Riva TNT2 ultra for 279.95$ at my local Aopen store the other day i laughed at the guy, but thirty i would jump all over even for an Aopen one.

 

[Sunner]

Just OC the memory on that mofo and you'll be able to run fine in 32 bit color as long as you're not looking for all framerates and no image quality.

Had mine OC'ed to 180/230 core/mem and I could score in the high 70's in 1024x768x32 in Quake2.

For 30 bucks I'd buy one just to have as a backup or something

 

[tonyou]

I would like to have a TNT2 for $30 also!

Tony

 

[Marvel]

I would say that is a very good deal.

 

[Inosuke]

Buy that thing!
Then sell it for 70. and take that money and go buy a Gforce MX for about 110.00. That'll end up costing you 70.00 to get that AMD to scream like it should.


Inosuke

 

[RoboTECH]

Sunner, 1024x768x32 in Q3 @ high 70s?

Bullshit. Pure bullshit. Post the condump. Only way you'd even have a CHANCE at that is if you turned EVERYTHING else off in the game and had r_picmip set to about 387 or something.

 

[Vpham97]

Harrisment

Did you buy it yet, or did you pass?

 

[BFG10K]

Sunner, 1024x768x32 in Q3 @ high 70s? Bullshit.

RoboTECH he was talking about Quake 2, not Quake 3. I think an edit may be in order...

 

[Sunner]

Robo, read my post again

 

[OuranosEXX]

me too, even i don't need a video card i would buy it at all costs!!!

 

[Wooster]

If you are happy with 42fps (1024x768x32) in Unreal Tournment, go get it. I just brought 64MB DDR GTS from Unatmo and got rid of this TNT2U on e-bay for $130. He brought it for company use. With $30, it's good deal and fast card for today's games.

 

[Engine]

You'll get pretty decent performance with a TNT2U. I have a celermine 850 with the v770 TNT2U, and I get about 65fps at 640x480x32. 800x600x32 drops all the way to the upper 40's though (I think... it's been a while since I tried).