Which GeForce III?

[epiGamer]

Ok. The question to answer all questions. Well, maybe not, but it's important to me anyway!

I have been investigating GeForce III's recently and decided that it was time to get one. Now, I am broken between the Gainward AGP GeForce3 PowerPack!! 64MB at £300 (About $420) , and the Hercules Prophet III 64Mb at £350 (about $490) . Anandtech's GeForce III round-up shows the Gainward to be slightly faster, but the Hercules ran cooler.

What do you all think? Hercules (£350 - hmmm ) or the Gainward (£300)???

P.S. Does anyone know anywhere in the UK that I can get these card cheaper?

 

[ukDave]

i would go for the Gainward, let me check out the prices for you...

 

[epiGamer]

Thanks... I look forward to seeing the prices!

 

[tazdevl]

Gainward for sure. If you don't need VIVO... just get the normal GF3. All Gainwards are Golden Sample cards, yields have been really good.

 

[ukDave]

www.komplett.co.uk £295 inc vat for the gainward

Asus AGP-V8200 Pure - GeForce3, AGP 4x, 64Mb DDR £257.13 inc vat from ebuyer.com



£254.00 ex vat asus V8200 deluxe at www.scan.co.uk - This is a TODAY only price. (www.scan.co.uk/today.htm)

dave

 

[epiGamer]

Out of interest, what is VIVO??? Video In, Video Out???

 

[ukDave]

yup

 

[mesonw]

asus cards come with software that can actively cool your gpu and ram.
Useful to run just once now and again to check temperature - esp if o/c'ing.
Speaking of which, they seem happy and stable at faster speeds too.

 

[codeyf]

Gainward all the way. I have the Golden Sample w/VIVO. Runs 260/544 flawlessly.....

 

[m2super]

Stay away from the 3dprophet, it uses slower ddr ram which is probably why it ran cooler and slower!
I would wait till the "titanium" or whatever they are calling it comes out the prices will surely drop then!

 

[epiGamer]

<< Stay away from the 3dprophet, it uses slower ddr ram which is probably why it ran cooler and slower!
I would wait till the "titanium" or whatever they are calling it comes out the prices will surely drop then! >>



When will that be? Anytime soon?

 

[epiGamer]

<< Gainward all the way. I have the Golden Sample w/VIVO. Runs 260/544 flawlessly..... >>



I don't really want to overclock, at least for the time being, so the Overclockability (if that's a word) isn't that important to me at the moment.

 

[m2super]

"I don't really want to overclock, at least for the time being, so the Overclockability (if that's a word) isn't that important to me at the moment."

Maybe not but when your gf3 starts showing its age you will want to overclock it, just like people with gf2's are doing now.

The Titanium is supposed to be released sometime this month(I think)

 

[sash1]

<< "I don't really want to overclock, at least for the time being, so the Overclockability (if that's a word) isn't that important to me at the moment."

Maybe not but when your gf3 starts showing its age you will want to overclock it, just like people with gf2's are doing now.

The Titanium is supposed to be released sometime this month(I think) >>

I agree, as soon as you're card is getting old and isn't getting that high frame-rate you wnat (or as high as you would like/could live with) you'll be overlcocking until you get a new one. Everyone just wants to squeeze every frame per second out of their video card.