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Which: GeForce 3 TI 200, 500, ATI Radeon 7500, 8500

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godspeedx

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I'm building a new computer and am going to buy a cheap video card that is good that will last me until about december when NVIDIA comes out with new card.
Which of these will be the best deal for me.
REMEMBER, this is only a temporary vid. card, im not looking for the "fastest", best bang for buck basically.

Geforce 3 TI 500
Geforce 3 TI 200

ATI Radeon 7500
ATI Radeon 8500

Thanks very much.
 
Well, maybe if you get the Radeon 8500 you won't be quite the nVidia fanatic you could be. 😉

"What? This card is GOOD! It's fast! It's pretty! This CANNOT be! It's ATI!!" 😀 😀 😀

If you want a killer card, the Radeon 9700 will whomp anything silly. 😉
But a Radeon 8500 variant is cheap and fast and awesome.
 
I have a Radeon 8500 and have not been dissapointed with it's drivers (Not anymore, at first they were slightly flakey), performance, image quality, or stability. I love low performance impact anisotropic filtering. The FSAA is somewhat worthless, as the performance drop is large, you my as well just up the resolution. The 8500LE is nearly identical, except that it's core/mem clockspeed are 250/250 as opposed to 275/275 and a dongle or two. Also, it's a bit cheaper. Anyway, I highly suggest it. The 7500 will also do nicely, but the price jump to an 8500 isn't that great.
 
If you are honestly only waiting until December, then just get the cheapest. I'm playing America's Army with a Radeon 64.
 
Thanks for you help but now I'm deciding if I should go with a cheap vid. card and then update in december with new nvidia or go with the G4 TI 4200 now and overclock and not upgrade for a while. I think I'm leaning towards going with the ti4200 and overclocking, as long as it will run stable at 4400-4600 speeds.
Any More Help?
Thanks
 
8500 then instead of getting raped in december/january for nv30 you can probably hold until next spring, at least.
 
Originally posted by: godspeedx
Thanks for you help but now I'm deciding if I should go with a cheap vid. card and then update in december with new nvidia or go with the G4 TI 4200 now and overclock and not upgrade for a while. I think I'm leaning towards going with the ti4200 and overclocking, as long as it will run stable at 4400-4600 speeds.
Any More Help?
Thanks
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Now that your considering... Def. go for the 4200...

Most will overclock to AT LEAST 4400 speeds...

its worth the extra 40 bucs or so 🙂
 
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