Which GeForce 3 Card Should I Get ?

[AMB]

http://www.rivastation.com/7gf3cards_e.htm

A seven way shoot out there... but I still cannot decide

I think I've narrowed it down to:

ASUS V8200 Deluxe - £354.84
ELSA GLADIAC 920 - £297.27
Hercules 3D Prophet III - £366.59

I think I am inclined to get the Elsa, as it is much cheeper

Currently, I have a Creative GeForce DDR, which I feel is a cause of my computer crashing in games, it is defintly a hard ware lock up.

 

[MichaelD]

All of the recently released GF3's have the 3.8ns memory, while some of the very early ones had "only" the 4ns. It did make a small performance diff. I think this is mentioned in the article that you linked to. Great shootout BTW; I read that article when it first came out. Kind of like reading a Porsche vs. Ferrari vs. Lambo type article! Drool.

Anway, performance-wise all the GF3 cards score within 1 FPS of each other...no discernable diff. However, some have VIVO capabilities, while some don't. On yesterday's main AT page, there was a review posted (great article BTW, Anand!) on the Gainward GF3 card. It has all the bells and whistles and comes with some video editing software/utilities to boot. Really nice card, but expensive (out of my budget anyway). I guess it all boils down to what you want it to do. Some folks already have a dedicated video capture card so they wouldn't need a vidcard w/that capability, since a stand-alone vidcapture card is going to have better quality and more features that a standard VGA vidcard with a daughter board tacked on.

I don't do any video capture stuff. Sure, I'd like to play with it one day, but it probably wouldn't amount to much...so I would just get the cheapest GF3 out. It depends on your needs. Gaming-wise, there's not enough performance diff B/T them to matter.

 

[AMB]

Well, thank you for the reply, so I guess Elsa it is

 

[grit621]

I'm almost always afraid of non-familiar name brands... had an Asus GeForce and a Hercules GeForce2.

I went with Visiontek. VERY HAPPY. Doesn't LOOK real great, and I don't want my video card to do VIVO, etc. But it does run WELL!

Aircool overclocks to 245/545 with NO stability problems under any games (NOLF, UT, Q3TA, etc.)Used 12.41 WHQL under Win2K. I don't know if it'll clock higher, I haven't tried yet.

Yes, I fixed the overclock bug in the 12.xx drivers.