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[inkibus]

Hello everyone!

I wanna upgrade my videocard on my other(old) pc, in my network. I currently have a Hercules Kyro2. It's really bad, because most games now have TL engines. So i cant lan any new games. The system is a old AMD Athlon 1Ghz with a VIA KT133E /VIA 686B chipset. I was wondering if i can put a ATI R9200 or R9600XT. Or anything decent so i can play some lan games.

Thanks everyone please reply

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Thanks guys. Ill try to get a Geforce4 ti4200 64mb version.
My main PC has a P4 2.8 with 800FBS and HT. The motherboard is a MSI neo2 i think its a 865PE chipset and i got R9700 videocard.

Thanks a Million guys
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by inkibus on 03/31/04 06:45 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[TheRod]

Your CPU is not fast enough for today's GPU. And by the way Radeon 9200 and 9600XT are VERY DIFFERENT products. Do not consider the 9200 is you want to keep it for a long time.

I can't recommend you to buy a graphic card alone, you really need to upgrade your MB/CPU/RAM + GPU. You might check if your MB can support faster CPU. If it supports Athlon 1800+ to 2600+ (T-bred), you should upgrade your CPU and then you would enjoy the "true" performance of a Radeon 9600XT.

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[Mr_Nuke]

Upgrabe your CPU to max of what the board can take(also, check for the latest BIOS and flash), 2*DIMM's each one of the max size the board can take and buy the latest AGP 4x card, the best is NVIDIA GeForce4 ti-4600. Don't buy AGP 8X cards, because they only cost more, not bring more performance, or evev less. How comes that? Only the high end models of a serie have the memory bandwidth of 10.4Ghz, So if you buy for example the FX 5600, you will gwt a smaller mem bandwidth and no more perfformance. so unless you have an AGP 8X slot, buy AGP 4X cards.

 

[Coyote]

What about picking up an older Geforce (nVidia G2 or G3) card. I've recently seen refurb G4 Ti 4200 for sale at like $39.95.

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Abit NF7-S v 2.0
Maxtor 60GB ATA 133 7200RPM
512MB Corsair Twinx 3200LL
9600 Pro
Enermax Noisetaker 420 watts
Win98SE

 

[ChipDeath]

something like a Ti4200 or so should be more than enough power for a second PC - anything else is overkill unless you're using it very frequently.

What's in your Main PC? maybe buy a 9600Pro for that one and use the old card in your secondary one? (assuming you've got something like a Geforce3 or 4 in it)

My second PC still only has a Geforce2 Ultra card in it.

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XP1700+ @205x11 (~2.26Ghz), 1.575Vcore
2x256Mb Corsair PC3200LL 2-2-2-4
Sapphire 9800Pro 420/744

 

[Crashman]

You must come from another forum, we don't speak such nonsense here. NO current card or system is capable of getting a noticeable increase out of 8x transfers, you buy an 8x card because it's not available as a 4x card. For example, a 9600 Pro is an AGP8x card, gets no gain from 8x as compared to 4x, and you buy it because even at 4x it's a great card.

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[Crashman]

9600XT would be nice if you can get a good price on it. Don't let these guys discourage you, even on your system a 9600XT is faster than a 9600 Pro, etc, right down the line.

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[Crashman]

Oh, I should also mention that there's a point where trippling the cost of a part in order to get 20% more performance just doesn't make sense, if you can find an old GeForce4 Ti4200 for considerably less than a 9600XT or Pro, go for that instead.

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[Mitch007]

eBay's your best bet for a card here (and the CPU for which THG has a raft of upgrade infor on what will fit where), cheap and look for a GeForceTi4200 it's still a great card.

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[inkibus]

Hello

Thank you for the advice. Iv been looking on Ebay for Geforce4 TI series. Should i go for 4400 or 4600 if the price is right? Also are there any brands that i should avoid? In Australian Ebay there a few LeadTek geforce4 Ti 4200's and 4400's.

Please reply and tell me more advice.

Thank you.

 

[Mitch007]

Ti4200 is probably better than other Ti4000 series in terms of value for money. I'd trawl these boards for best buy manufacturer. But with 5700 Ultra and 5900xt prices as they are, unless you can get a good price for a ti4200 i'd go for new, 5900XT at 120 uk pounds/ approx 170Euro/$170us, they are but kicking, low price with some life left in um!

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[endyen]

The 4200 was a midgrade card to the high end 4600. The 4400 was in between. 15 and 30 Au$ is the extra money, over the 4200.

 

[SuperK]

Be very careful about what you buy on e-bay! There are a ton of clones(counterfeit) products comming out of Asia now. I know of several people that have purchased such products through e-bay. Best bet is to buy new in unopened package from reputable seller. Try buying from your local computer specialty guy and keep your money in the community you live in. Sure you may pay a little more, but I prefer to give the little guy my money vs. greedy corporate types!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!