Which one to get Geforce 3 or Geforce 3 Ti200 ?

[cotton]

I am upgrading my system and need an new video card. I am torn between the original Geforce 3 for about $230 or the Geforce 3 Ti200 for about $180.00 The brand I am thinking of getting is the Gainward Cardexpert
Is it worth spending the extra $50 for an older card ?

System
WindowsXP
512 ram
P3 850

Thanks to all

 

[Tomek]

It's not really an older card, the GeForce3 Ti200 is just clocked lower than the GeForce3. The performance of the GF3 is about 10% higher than that of the GF3 Ti200... it's up to you to decide whether that's worth the extra $50.

 

[OCDuron]

Many of the GF3 Ti200s I've seen are overclocking much higher than stock GF3 speeds, some even overclocking as far as a GF3 would go. I suggest getting a GF3 Ti200 and saving the $50.

 

[Y23KC]

People are fooled by the core/clock speed of the Geforce3 ti200, regular Geforce3, and Geforce ti500. A ti200 has 6.4gb/sec memory bandwidth, GF3 reg has 7.36GB/Sec. memory bandwidth, and the Ti500 has 8.0GB/Sec. What does this mean? A ti200 overclocked to GF3 reg specs will not perform as well since the memory bandwidth is less. It would take a higher overclock to perform with a regular GF3. Same goes for the GF3 reaching TI500 performance. The GF3 probably is still the best performance card since it's mem bandwidth is not that far away from a GF3 Ti500. So if your indecisive and want the best performance without money as a factor, get a Gf3 which can overclock past GF3 ti500 specs sometimes which equals better performance. If money is a factor, you would not be disappointed by a TI200. Ti 500 is not worth the extra money IMO.

 

[bjc112]

I say the 3.. especially gainward.... my gainward is at 544.. no probs... thats 44 mhz past the Ti-5oo... its up to you, if money is no issue.. get the 3 but if not, get the ti-200

 

[LuDaCriS66]

Does your Gainward come with ramsinks? Any idea if any of the Gainward GF3 Ti200 cards don't have ramsinks? I need to know cuz the site I'm ordering it from shows a picture of the card without the sinks and I want to get the card ASAP.

 

[MilesTeg]

the GF3 it200 from bestbuy! it was only $99! too bad i missed it

are the GF3-ti200's more OC'able than the orginal GF3's? if you check out the ti200 post about OCing, they hit some pretty high numbers there