Help! Which card to buy?

[Cable_Dood]

The Abit Geforce 4MX is out and only $109 at newegg.com. What's the catch? What's the best card to get under $200 right now?

[Gaming-Module]

The catch is that it's a suped up Geforce 2 MX with none of the features that a Geforce 3/4 have.

[MartialArtist12]

Get a GF3 Ti200. If you look around, it's the exact price.

[Dunster]

Originally posted by MartialArtist12
Get a GF3 Ti200. If you look around, it's the exact price.

DITTO to that!!!!!

[onetrueday]

msi gf3 ti200 64meg ddr with vivo 143

I'm using one in my computer right now and it amazing. Blows away anything my radeon64ddr could have done.

[YARDofSTUF]

get a gainward gf3ti200

[loop2kil]

bump what YOS said and if your not one of us that always upgrades to the latest and greatest stuff then u might consider the gainward golden sample gf3 ti200 128 mb version. the extra 64 megs will not drastically improve fps over the 64 mb version right now but it might future proof the purchase down the road when games will demand 64 mb vid cards as a minimum, and you will then have 64 megs to spare and still be in the game. and for $175 which is only $26 dollars more then the 64 mb version at newegg, you can't go wrong.

BTW, i installed one of the 128mb versions in an upgrade that i did for a friend. It was on a 850 p3 (100mhz bus) system with 384 mb of pc100 ram and it maintained a constant fps of 180-200 at 1024x768x32. I was extremely impressed with its stock performance.

[Jstyr]

I have to say..amen to that..I just got a GeForce3 ti450 golden sample with 64 megs of ram and it really cranks out the graphics.

The golden sample is a supped up ti200 but I've seen articles on the web saying that it will easily outperform stock ti500 cards when OC'ed.

[YARDofSTUF]

gainward is how u spell god for video cards, right now at least.

[Cable_Dood]

Thanks for the advice! I bought a Gainward GF3 ti200 "golden sample" with 128 mb. I'll post as side-by-side comparison to my tired voodoo 5 when it comes in. Hopefully the little dude on the front of the box that looks like he's getting cornholed won't be me! I mean, I did pay $289 for a Voodoo 5, so it's happened before.

[YARDofSTUF]

the voodoo5 was a kickass card!

[Cable_Dood]

I don't deny that. It's STILL a kickass card. Unfortunately 3dfx zigged and the industry zagged. If the Voodoo 5 wasn't so late to market, we might all be using 3dfx chipsets still.

[YARDofSTUF]

u still interested in posibliy parting with that voodoo, never got the one i wanted through ebay.

[Jstyr]

yea that guy on the gainward box does sorta look like he's getting cornholed. Or maybe he's just wiping his ASS with his old graphics card cause that's all it's good for!!

Congratz on your purchase...when I decided to go Gainward I didn't even know they were considered the best nvidia cards or whatever right now. All I knew was for price...specs...and reviews that card kept coming out on top. It's little turbo mode OC is nice if you don't have fancy cooling systems. Lets you easily up the core and memory...but this card can go higher than that. Wait till you see it too...I just about crapped my pants when opened the box up...sweet cheery red PCB and fan. The fan looks like a damn jet turbine only smaller....Ramsinks all over it of course and they are also cherry red. I've noticed some people who got slightly different inclusions in there geforce3 ti450 golden samples so let us know what comes in your box.

Gud day

[Amro]

8500 retail = less than 200 = ti500 speeds

[Qwijib0]

Originally posted by Amro
8500 retail = less than 200 = ti500 speeds

AMEN!

[MartialArtist12]

You get features like Hyper-Z II (which ATI didn't fully activate yet unless it's in real trouble which the GF4 doesn't present right now), Pixel Tapestry II, Pixel Shader 1.4 support <--- Looks nice in 3DMark.