unsure of what Geforce2 Pro card to buy

[Taggart]

I think the Geforce2 Pro is just what the doctor ordered in terms of price and performance, for me atleast. However, are all GF2 Pro cards the same, or is one manufacturers' offering better than the others (MSI, Leadtek, etc.)? I'd really appreciate anyone's opinion on this. Thanks!

 

[mitaiwan82]

I'm pretty happy w/ my GF2 Pro from Inno3d (got it at Newegg a couple of weeks ago). Have it running in Win2k and runs all the games seamlessly. Some of the Leadtek's are half-ass GF2 Pro's, since they have only 32 megs of 5.5ns memory, resulting in a default memory clock of 366Mhz as opposed to 400Mhz specified by Nvidia. However, those Leadteks sell for ~$150 so they're not a bad deal or anything. Umm have seen some threads about the MSI GF2 Pro but I don't rememeber seeing too much feedback there...Firingsquad.com had a review on it a couple of months ago so you can find out more about it there. Good luck in your quest

 

[pidge]

Yeah. Inno3D's are pretty good.

 

[oldfart]

Newegg has Elsa for the same price. I'd go that route. Elsa is known as a quality unit.

 

[Avatar26]

The MSI card is NICE! I've had it for over a month and I love it. Overclockable, if you're into that sort of thing...

 

[nicowju]

I'm looking ofr a GF2 Pro too. Should I go Elsa or MSI?
I need good 2D quality, as I run my desktop at 2048x1536, so what would you recommend?

 

[oldfart]

DOH! My bad. I dont think there is an Elsa Pro card. I was thinking of the Ultra's.

 

[Namuna]

I've got my MSI Starforce 815 Geforce2 GTS Pro 64mb running nicely.

Current price from Newegg is $184 + $5 shipping. That's a TRUE, RETAIL boxed Pro card for under $200!!!

I currently have mine overclocked to 230/440

On my rig, I'm getting...

3dMark2000: 9169
3dMark2001: 3921

I'm REAL happy with my card.

 

[GuardianAli]

stay away from creative at all costs and try and shy away from the hercules.

Elsa and Inno3d are great choices

 

[Sie]

I disagree.... the Hercules is a decent card,

Mine runs very smoothly at 235/470...

...and Elsa don't do the Pro, only the Ultra...
My Baby

 

[Simulat]

Hercules is a good card but its ridiculously espensive when other cards that perform just as well can be had for 190 or so with shipping.

Ive got the MSI 64mb Pro card. Overclocks well (usually run at 230/445-450) and was cheap (for a good video card anyway). Inno3d card probably just as good. Either of them would be good cards for the price.

 

[SaturnX]

Just to toss in some info, Leadtek's card isn't a TRUE GF2 Pro card, according to nVidia's designations of the GeForce2 Series of cards. The Leadtek card is clocked (default) (200core/366mem) Which does not meet nVidia standard.

These are what cards must be clocked to:
GeForce2 GTS: 200 / 333 (Not positive on the 200 for the core)
GeForce2 Pro: 200 / 400
GeForce2 Ultra: 250/466

Anyways, to get yo my point, the Leadtek card is only slightly better than a GTS, so it's in between the GTS and Pro.

--Mark

 

[Garion]

Some info that I found in some other threads..

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  LeadTek (as someone mentioned) isn't much of a Pro card - Skip it.
  Inno3d and VisionTek have the best 2D quality of the bunch (Heard ASUS is good, too).
  Creative's 2D sucks rocks.
  I heard of one guy that OC'ed his Inno3d Pro up to 470. Pretty dammed impressive, past Ultra speeds!

I saw a 64MB Inno3d Pro card at for $202. Pretty good deal - Leadtech is about the same, MSI about $10 cheaper. PriceWatch

I'm gonna go Inno3d when I do.. Might wait for the G3 or the Ultra to go down a bit

- G