Upgrading graphics card...

[The Mole]

It seems my NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 is struggling with the latest games, although it has served me incredibly well in the past... time to replace the old girl http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

I have seen a 128Mb ASUS V8440 Ge-Force 4 DVi graphics card for about £250, is this a good price and is it one of the best Ge-Force 4 Ti 4400 cards?

It's gonna break the bank for me (being a student) but I think I can stretch it http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/wink.gif

Does anyone know any other cheap online shops to buy computer hardware, located in the UK? I found this deal on www.scan.co.uk (http://www.scan.co.uk) in the "Today Only" section.

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[This message has been edited by The Mole (edited 04-20-2002).]

[Pianorak]

Hello Mole -

You might like to give www.maplin.co.uk (http://www.maplin.co.uk) a try.
Good luck.

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[iisbob]

i would recommend going instead with a good Geforce3 Ti series card; their are no games curently on the market that will stretch them to their fullest capacity, much less the new G$ Ti series-and they are a lot cheaper than the new G4 Ti series.

Try Newegg, i do a lot of business with them and they are reasonably priced.



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iisbob

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[saphalline]

Ooh, I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that one, iisbob. There may very well be no games that can stress the raw graphics power of the GF3 Ti 500, but the GF4 Ti series is a bit more than merely a faster GF3.

For starters, another pixel/vertex shader is added (even tho as you state they aren't used in games as of yet) which doubles those DX 8 effects, as well as having MUCH more highly optimized anti-aliasing routines. The benchmarks I've seen show almost no penalty for playing today's DX 7 games with good quality AA on the GF4 Ti series (2-5% penalty). You can't say that at all for the GF3 Ti 500 which does AA barely better than the GF2 series does.

What I'm trying to say is a GF3 Ti 500 will play games incredibly well for the next year at least, but I just checked the Newegg website and currently they have GF4 Ti 4400 graphics cards for about the same price as the GF3 Ti 500, some are even cheaper! A little bit more power, double the DX 8 effects, improved AA, all for the same price. How's that for fast computer technology? Haha http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

At those prices, why not go for a GF4?

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[This message has been edited by saphalline (edited 04-22-2002).]