Video Card Suggestions from Experts?!?!

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Holiday

My current system:

A7V rev. 1.02
TB 950 w/ 392 Megs PC133
Win2k/Win98 Dual Boot
TNT 2 32megs


My loyal TNT 2 has performed admirably the last 3 yrs, especially with
a decent overclock support to help me play even new games on a lower
resolution. I do find this year though that some games are coming out
that will not run at all on this card.

I am on a budget and upgrading the mobo, cpu and memory is not an
option. I am willing to spend upwards of $150US for a decent video
card that will keep my current processor gaming for another year or
two but allow for it to be transposed onto a new system. Any
recmommendations for my TB950 system? Can I run an AGP8X card on this
mobo?

Opinions?

Thanx
 
the 8x might be useless now.. reply to this thread in about 12 months and
lets compare then.. once we see some "software" design'd to take advantage
of the cards

jaeger said:
I'm no expert, but I highly recommend the ASUS GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128MB with
AGP 8x (should run just fine on your mobo, but find out for sure).

See just how kick-ass the GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128MB is:
[crap link removed]

A solid gaming card for someone on a budget.
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If you're getting a 4200, forget the 4200 8x(useless) and get the Asus
4X 8420S. It's a 4200 with 3.3ns RAM(rated for 600MHz). I have one at
300/650, which is 4600 speed and could probably go higher. And it's
quite inexpensive.
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the 8x might be useless now.. reply to this thread in about 12 months and
lets compare then.. once we see some "software" design'd to take advantage
of the cards
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In 12 months a 4200 will be far too behind to make of use of any 8X
benefits if they emerge. Anyway, huge onboard frame buffers and texture
compression have made the very idea of AGP pretty much irrelevant. It
will be replaced by PCI-X before it provides any real enhancements.
 
Huh? 12 months? This card is obsolete now.


rstlne said:
the 8x might be useless now.. reply to this thread in about 12 months and
lets compare then.. once we see some "software" design'd to take advantage
of the cards

jaeger said:
I'm no expert, but I highly recommend the ASUS GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128MB with
AGP 8x (should run just fine on your mobo, but find out for sure).

See just how kick-ass the GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128MB is:
[crap link removed]

A solid gaming card for someone on a budget.
Click to expand...

If you're getting a 4200, forget the 4200 8x(useless) and get the Asus
4X 8420S. It's a 4200 with 3.3ns RAM(rated for 600MHz). I have one at
300/650, which is 4600 speed and could probably go higher. And it's
quite inexpensive.
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Would look for an ATI 9700, they should be cheap enough now.
Then just clock it to, 9700 Pro speeds :) Even at default speeds,
nothing else would come close to performance/price and be capable
of 4X FSAA and 16X AF in Battlefeild 1942 etc
 
Holiday said:
My current system:

A7V rev. 1.02
TB 950 w/ 392 Megs PC133
Win2k/Win98 Dual Boot
TNT 2 32megs


My loyal TNT 2 has performed admirably the last 3 yrs, especially with
a decent overclock support to help me play even new games on a lower
resolution. I do find this year though that some games are coming out
that will not run at all on this card.

I am on a budget and upgrading the mobo, cpu and memory is not an
option. I am willing to spend upwards of $150US for a decent video
card that will keep my current processor gaming for another year or
two but allow for it to be transposed onto a new system. Any
recmommendations for my TB950 system? Can I run an AGP8X card on this
mobo?

Opinions?

Thanx
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You might want to post to the seperate Nvidia and ATI newsgroups to
get a better idea. I'm a Nvidia person myself and seems like the
currrent consensus is a Geforce 4 (probably Ti4200 or 4800) then a new
Geforce 5 (like the 5600). Also go to Newegg and look at customer
comments and votes. The Asus Ti4200 at $150 has 80 votes at 5 stars.
The MSI card has 70 votes too. Also be aware of memory used, some
same sounding models don't use the same kind memory (like some use 64
bit vs 128 bit memory - I'm not talking megs here).
 
I'm no expert, but I highly recommend the ASUS GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128MB
with
AGP 8x (should run just fine on your mobo, but find out for sure).
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I agree, at least with the chipset. I'm using an MSI 4200 8X 128MB with
VIVO.
 
This motherboard is only AGP 2.0 compliant, so it will only support up to
AGP 4x. 8x doesn't do you any good with this mobo.
 
Homer J Simpson said:
This motherboard is only AGP 2.0 compliant, so it will only support up to
AGP 4x. 8x doesn't do you any good with this mobo.
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I read (not sure its true or not) that you don't have to worry about
the x factor (2x, 4x, 8x etc) cause this performance parameter only is
used in extreme or rare conditions.
 
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