is it worth getting a geforce4mx...i can get one for under £100. will be much better than my geforce2 gts. and also r my specs too slow...i dont really use my pc like i used to.
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March 20th, 2002, 01:55 #1roll for life
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geforce4mx vs geforce 3 (original) vs geforce3ti200
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March 20th, 2002, 02:13 #2Moderator
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Who knows, I think the answer is in your own post. A couple of months ago I used my computers mainly for gaming, nodays it's for programming and the occasional, not always apprecative session of retro gaming. If you buy a new card today, and use it every now and then it's a waste of money and if you'll get hooked again in a year of two your hardware will be obsolete, if you really don't have a need for it... spend your money on a couple of pints...
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March 20th, 2002, 02:24 #3roll for life
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fair point. pints it is.Originally posted by Remote
Who knows, I think the answer is in your own post. A couple of months ago I used my computers mainly for gaming, nodays it's for programming and the occasional, not always apprecative session of retro gaming. If you buy a new card today, and use it every now and then it's a waste of money and if you'll get hooked again in a year of two your hardware will be obsolete, if you really don't have a need for it... spend your money on a couple of pints...
i think i can get a good trade-in price for gf2gts, so i only really need to pay like £20ish...i dunno wateva.
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yea, i wasted about $300 when i last upgraded, now I just IRC, make web pages, word process and web surf. The only graphical program I use is Half-life and PJ64 for testing, my hardware is way to high for this and i'm thinking of trading it in for a laptop.
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March 20th, 2002, 20:09 #5Moderator
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If you want the latest technology, skip the Geforce 4 MX. It's just a juiced-up GF 2, with none of the pixel or vertex shaders that make the GF 3's and 4's what they are.
Just in case you plan on playing any future games.
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gf4ti4600. get it.
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You're insane. That would be the worst waste of money ever. Nice gfx card but way too expensive.Originally posted by linker
gf4ti4600. get it.
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March 21st, 2002, 02:58 #8get out of my house
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Then what should a guy who wants to upgrade to a decent card without paying a lot of money get? I've got a geforce2mx at the moment but I'm incredibly confused at what would be a worthwhile upgrade to it.
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call me whatever u like but id say u could still stick to the gf2mx for quite a while. should be largely a waste of money to buy a new gfx card in the next months.
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March 21st, 2002, 06:44 #10GODLIKE
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i'm thinking.. next video card i get will be an ATI Radeon 8500.. it's a whole lot cheaper and comes close to the GeForce 4 cards..
http://www.gamespy.com/hardware/march02/rad8500vsgf4/
sure.. the GeForce is faster.. but wtf.. when your doing over 100fps who really gives a damn.. as long as it does over 80 fps in the benchmarks and has most of the stuff the GeForce card has.. i'm happy with it..
oh and btw.. the Radeon card is also faster in the highest resolutions using FSAA on some benchmarks.. sadly didn't seem like it was the case on Q3 but it was still doing really good compared to other cards i've seen.. wich is pretty good overall anyways.. coz when gaming you really wanna have those nice antialiased edges and etc.. the Radeon also has some features the GeForce don't have.. that i bet will be very well wellcomed by game developers..
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