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Is this upgrade a waste of time?
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:13 am
by M4v3r1ck
I am running a GeForce 3 ti 200 on a PIII 1.0 ghz with 512 mb of ram. I have the ability to swap in a Radeon 9700 Pro in the GeForce slot. The card would probably cost me less than 25 bucks. Do you think it is worth it? I know it is a better card, but how much better? It's full potential would prolly be limited by my processor no?
Cheers
Mav
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:29 am
by KrAzYdAvE
indeed, you may see a couple fps improvement, but not much.
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:06 am
by Baron[CotC]
The biggest improvement would be that youd be using an ATI card instead of one of those crappy stinky nvidia things
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 12:32 pm
by NightReaver[CotC]
RedBaron wrote:The biggest improvement would be that youd be using an ATI card instead of one of those crappy stinky nvidia things
Hey hey hey......
Remember some of us perfer Nvidia over ATI
I know you are a ATI nazi
Don't push your views.
J/K man ATI is good at what they do and so is Nvidia.
To each their own I say
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:19 pm
by Rico
NightReaver[CotC] wrote:RedBaron wrote:The biggest improvement would be that youd be using an ATI card instead of one of those crappy stinky nvidia things
Hey hey hey......
Remember some of us perfer Nvidia over ATI
I know you are a ATI nazi
Don't push your views.
J/K man ATI is good at what they do and so is Nvidia.
To each their own I say
And I say yer full of it. ATI rocks, and nVidia blows hairy goats.
Everyone who knows anything knows that.
Got troll?
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:24 pm
by Serpent
Rico wrote:And I say yer full of it. ATI rocks, and nVidia blows hairy goats.
Everyone who knows anything knows that.
I agree with you whole-heartedly, especially after finding this out first hand, unfortunately.
Had a nvidia geforce card... same one.. cant remember which one now... but... 3 of those suckers... kept going bad on me... got an ati radeon... and have never had a problem since...
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:51 pm
by NightReaver[CotC]
Rico wrote:Got troll?
+++++
Exactly +++++
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 3:59 pm
by Baron[CotC]
I've been ATI since I upgraded my Geforce1 MX playing Q2 heh... and actually i was a big ATI 2D card fan in the DOS days
ATI is Canadian, I love em
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 4:13 pm
by Serpent
RedBaron wrote:ATI is Canadian, I love em
LOL - love the reasoning. hehehe
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:39 pm
by VerniusIX
ATI is god! Nvidia is for goat lovers
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:46 pm
by KrAzYdAvE
My Nvidia card'll smoke yours!
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:49 pm
by AnubiS
and obviously vern is a goat lover...seeming hes the only goat killer around
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:11 pm
by VerniusIX
I doubt that KD, seeing as I am running the ATI X800 pro or xt or whatever the hell that last letter grouping is. Oh, and noobis, I hate goats, that is why I kill them
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:29 am
by D.A.R.K.[CotC]
Radeon 9600XT
the only pwning video card
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 12:36 am
by KrAzYdAvE
I have the Geforce 6800GT
and I ran it side by side with Rico's X800 when I built his system, his beat mine by about 10-15fps until I disabled my second monitor, then mine was slightly faster...
All on the same spec'd systems nonetheless.
for price point the x800 is better, but speed was better on the 6800GT