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27-April-04, 10:12 PM
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| Mystical Schwinn Guru  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: West Melbourne, Fl-HOE-rida
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     |  PCI video cards I'm getting one for my Dell Optiplex GX200, P3 1 GHz, 256MB RDRAM and it has a PCI riser card. I know the 5200 is crap but I'm considering one since it's a P3 1 GHz, anything over a 5200 is overkill and won't really matter since it's a 1 GHz. Benn having problems with ATi cards in Halflife and D3D mode for some reason, what do you guys reccomend? Yes it plays games but I want it to play stuff more complicated than Halflife. Not Halflife 2. HL. Upgrading from a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI. |
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27-April-04, 10:39 PM
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| Mastah Overclocker  Join Date: May 2003 Location: Lima, Ohio
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Why not go MX440 and save a few bucks? it's not like the DX9 will be of any use anyways.. Yeah..I have not been overly impressed with ATI cards, yeah they bench great, but I prefer Nvidia's drivers, the ease of overclocking with Coolbits, and the fact they don't have a "pause" when you first boot up that I noticed when I got my 9600XT. Edit: Check out a thread I started on PCI cards HERE
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27-April-04, 11:05 PM
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| Mystical Schwinn Guru Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: West Melbourne, Fl-HOE-rida
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| I have considered an MX440, they are decent cards and have come a long way in development. Whatever I get will ne Nvidia, yes I know 'j-dogg why not get a Voodoo 4500 32MB PCI' The Voodoo 4500 runs very hot and my Voodoo 3 2000 is heating my room up |
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28-April-04, 07:07 AM
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| Apex Tech God  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Somerset, England UK........ News Threads: 8,143
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| some of the old high end geforce 4 (4000's) are for sale - about £30(~$55) for a PCI 4000 with 128mb DDR. Its the biggest amount of memory ive seen on a PCI card, anyhting over that is as you say, overkill. Keep in mind the PCI bus shyares the bandwidth of all the devices, so ive you have a Gb network card and TV tuner in there aswell, your performance will be greatly reduced.
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28-April-04, 09:07 PM
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| Mystical Schwinn Guru Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: West Melbourne, Fl-HOE-rida
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| I have decided on an XFX GeForce FX5200 128MB, 69 buxors. I want a 5200 because of the extra 2 pipelines and 64MB RAM. As far as PCI devices, there aren't any others except a 4-port USB card. It's for my cam. |
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nice scrolly. 
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29-April-04, 04:22 AM
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| Pro HTML Hoe  Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Some Desolate Location in TX
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| I would have gone with the PNY GeForce FX 5200 128mb dual VGA PCI. Only $90, and multi display too. I have 2 of them in my PC and have not had any complaints yet.
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