jase555

might have a

Creative gf4 ti4200 , £80 if you are interested (got it may03)

jase


http://uk.europe.creative.com/estore/product.asp?prod=321

[Edited by jase555 - 7/2/2003 8:19:32 AM]

JoeyDeacon

Ok in this review of this card they could overclock it quite nicely...

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1134

Or

http://www.amd3d.com/review/msigf4ti4200/photo.htm

[Edited by JoeyDeacon - 7/2/2003 2:30:13 PM]

Mr Footlong

iTrader: (7)

But remember, that is merely a GeForce 4 Ti 4400 with AGP8x support.

Not even vagely worth twice the price of the 4200 mentioned on here.

edited for typo..

[Edited by Mr Footlong - 7/2/2003 9:59:35 PM]

ScoobyDoo555

As topic sez -

going for the Asrock board and a 2400XP+ chip
Crucial DDR 400 Ram

What sort of graphics card can I go for - I want something decent, as I've got a GForce 2 GTS Pro at present.

I want something that can run HalfLife 2 and that type of game. Obviously, I've cut back on the CPU and Mobo, so can afford a bit more for the card.

What would you guys suggest? and NO, I can't afford the ATI 9800!!!

Answers on a postcard

Dan

kamikaze

in that case its radeon 9600 pro at 130 quid. after that ure looking at 200 quid cards

but personally i would wait
hl2 aint even out! and it may get delayed. e.g. duke nukem forever

no point paying top notch as the market is so quick.
my geforce 4ti200 is still great after 15 months and i play all the latest games. i bouhgt it as a midrange card

ScoobyDoo555

OK cool - I was also looking at the Ti4600.... but I can get a ti4200 for £99 inc vat

I can also get a 9700 pro for £194incvat

Seems like its either a case of going for a mid-range card, or bite the bullet and get a good un. Thought about the 9700 purely because as the 9800 is out now, it will be much cheaper.....

Any thoughts anybody

Answers on a postcard.

Will be buying this lot in the next week, as the PC I've got now is slowly dying a death!!!:

Cheers,

Dan

mj

I'm still on a radeon 8500, seems to cope fine with the current batch of games, I may have to change when D3 & HL2 are out though -
hopefully then radeon 9600's will be about £80

Mr Footlong

iTrader: (7)

Or you could just go here and pick up a brand spanking new Ti4200 with AGP8x compliant interface:

http://www.dabs.com/value/value.asp?s=374

Under the dabs value brand but the 3 that I have had from here have all been Inno 3D Cards, which are good

GeForce 4 Ti4200-8x 64MB DDR AGP RP DVI VO £77.50 INC VAT

GeForce 4 Ti4200-8x 128MB DDR AGP £87.50 INC VAT

Good deal to me, I had a couple of freinds buy these very same cards, upgrading from Geforce 2 mx's and they love them.

Cheers,

Nick.

ScoobyDoo555

Magic - also been looking at the 9600 (with DVI)

Just trying to find a cheap outlet!!!

(thanks Jase - will have a think about it! )

How does the 9600 fair - is there a site that gives reviews of all the grafix cards?

Cheers,

Dan

JoeyDeacon

ebuyer are doing a 64 Meg Geforce 4 Ti4200 for £49.99 + VAT.

Can't go wrong for that sort of money, infact I ordered one this morning.

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&pro duct_uid=49692

Don't forget the 64 meg card is VERY overclockable.

Tony_W

I bought a Ti4600 a couple of weeks ago. It's excellent. Can't say any more than that really. I had a GeForce 3 Ti200 before and the difference is amazing. ooops..did say a little bit more!

Tony

jbryant

I just bought a 9600 non-pro for <£100 from ebuyer as a medium term buy for my 2500 XP with DDR3200 ram. I know I'll not be able to max out on GFX when halflife 2 comes out, but hey, I'll just have to run it in ugly looking 1600 x 1200 then!

Joolz

Popeye P1

'I'm still on a radeon 8500, seems to cope fine with the current batch of games, I may have to change when D3 & HL2 are out though - '

ditto its runs fine but when Doom3 and HL2 are out I will get a Radeon Pro etc.

LeighJ

I'm selling my ATi9700 for £120 + £7 shipping, if your intrested. One month old and boxed.

Leigh

ScoobyDoo555

YHM

Dan

Mr Footlong

iTrader: (7)

LOL, Ebuyer have that special offer on again? Excellent. Stupid money

Joey,please don't generalise about all 4200 cores being good clockers, as they aren't all by any means whatsoever.

Mr Footlong

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Sorry m8, didn't mean to sound harsh or anything, but don't go solely on reviewqs, as if you have had quite a few different cards over the years and have tinkered with ocing them, you will have no doubt noticed that some of them simply do not live upto the hype of some reviews as far as the ocing is concerned.

There are a million factors to it, thigs like cores taken from the the cntre of a batch wafer job of them seem to be better, whereas, the lower quality cores tend to mostly be around the outside of a batch job of wafers, companies/manufacturers sometimes crippling higher spec cores and badging them as lower models to meet demand in lower sectors, a million things tbh. Voltage regulation on the cards themselves etc. I could go on and on and we don't want that .

Cheers,

Nick (prob had well over 100 performance VGA cards pass through hands and mildly fettled with )

Mr Footlong

iTrader: (7)

Remember, a lot of review sites get sent 'sample' models by manufacturers and almost in every instance, the card is tested and hand picked before being sent to review, to give them the best chance possible of getting a favourable result with out resorting to bribery

BTW, I am not saying that a lot of the 4200 cores don't oc well, but they are far from all being perfect

rik1471

LeighJ - what's the exact model of your card, i'm very interested.

JoeyDeacon

Mr Footlong,

No problems mate, I know how much you can overclock a card is often down to luck but for £50 I am definitely going to give it a go!

As you said stupid money for such a capable card, infact they only have 63 left now. When I ordered mine this morning they had 130 in stock.

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

ebuyer are doing a gainward ti4800 for £133

here

Popeye P1

'ebuyer are doing a gainward ti4800 for £133'

I've heard these cards are the dogs bollox. Great price too.

Mr Footlong

iTrader: (7)

Popeye, that one linked to is far from the dog's danglies m8. the SE version is the lower model. Read what I said above.