Should I Upgrade my Gainward Ti200?

[RONType1]

Is it worth upgrading my Gainward Ti200? It overclocks wonderfully to *nearly* Ti500 speeds. I'm currently looking at an MSI GeForce4200 which costs a little more than what I paid for my Gainward. Does anyone know if I will see a noticeable difference in performance when running @ 1024 or 1200??? Currently running an AMD 1.33GHz.


THANKS

 

[Rand]

IMHO it's not really worth it at all. While in most cases the Ti4200 will be decently faster, it won't exactly blow a Ti500 away and your really gaining precious little benefit at all in terms of other gains besides sheer 3D performance.
Besides, a Ti500 should still be quite adequate for any present game at regular resolutions... in many cases your probably able to get away with FSAA also.

Unless your planning on playing games at 1600x1200, or require 4X FSAA.... or your finding your games arent running at a respectable frame rate I wouldnt bother with it.

 

[Mavrick007]

Unless your games aren't playing the way you want them to be playing, then I wouldn't upgrade.
Your card is decent now and I would probably wait til the next generation comes out in the fall from Nvidia, and then compare all the new offerings (ATI, NVidia, 3dlabs, Matrox, etc).

 

[Cocytus]

Peer pressure.

I have a 200 as well. I'm skipping the GF4/Radeon 8500 generation. The $99 I paid for it 9 months ago was $$ well spent. It plays JK2, RTCW, and MW4 with the eye candy on at 1024 x 768.

Hell, I'll even bounce the new UT off of it, just to see what I can expect (yeah, I saw the AT article, shaddup already).

If anything, by skipping a generation, I'll really notice a performance difference, unlike the rich lemmings that buy every 6 months.

 

[AnAndAustin]

I agree with all posts, unless your budget is big or your gaming ambitions large, it really isn't worth it. The advice I've been giving to people is if they have a decent CPU 1.3ghz+ and have less than a GF3TI200 or Rad8500LE then a GF4TI4200 is a very worthwhile upgrade (4400 or 4600 if your pocket is deep enough), although the 2 cards mentioned are still very good if on a tighter budget. If you already have one of these 2 cards then you have nothing to lose by waiting and watching because perf is still great.