Graphics card to upgrade?

WhiteWashMan

oi conor, dont know the name of it but i saw a card in game the other day for 550 quid
im sure that will get you an extra 3 fps in alpha centuri

TwoShedsJackson

Yes very helpful Eamo, now fu<k off

Chubby

Yeah, like what Yossarian said, the GeForce2 MX is good or get a GeForce DDR. They're slightly faster than the GeForce2 MX at high res and only cost like 10 quid more.

You will notice a big difference with these cards.

And if money is no object...get a GeForce2 Ultra.

Yossarian

that 550 quid card was the Geforce2 Ultra.
Bloody expensive.
The MX also overclocks nicely



Stephen

strat

ya im thinking of getitng a GeForce 2 MX
they r cheap (120 odd squids) and compare nicely to the geforce 1 256 DDR @ 200 odd quid

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Dustaz

Are all those flavours of geforce 2 cards better than an nvidia tnt2? Im sorta clueless.

Gerry

Yes, they are all better. If you are getting an mx, get one with ddr memory, as I think some of them have sdr memory, which is bad. (ie, not better than the memory on a tnt2)

Gerry

Also, you will need a much faster machine to get the best from a geforce2 (gts). With your p500 and a gf2, games will be much faster when theres not much going on, but your worst case fps will not be much better. If you are thinking of upgrading though, I would get the geforce2 gts, as it is much faster than the mx.

Yossarian

The DDR cards only have a 64bit memory bandwidth. The SDR version has a 128bit bus.
As the Geforce cards already suffer from a memory bandwidth bottleneck the SDR seems the better bet. Especially if you overclock it.


Stephen.

Yossarian

And another thing...
NVIDIA have been marketing TWINVIEW a lot,
But i havent seen a card which supports dual MONITOR output so far. All the ones so far that have TWINVIEW only support monitor+TV output.
I was gonna buy a GF2 MX TWINVIEW but trudging through the vague marketing specs put me off.

Stephen.

Gerry

erm i think you are wrong on the 64 bit memory bus thing. Every nvidia card since roughly the time of the the tnt1, except the tnt2-m64, and the vanta, has a 128 bit memory bus. The DDR ram is clocked twice as fast as SDR ram, and it has the same memory bus.

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Stephen

Any idea where I'd be able to get a geforce 2 mx for that price (120), Stata?

And Yossarian: Matrox's G400 supports dual monitors (DUAL HEAD they call it). I have a G400, but its OEM kit and only supports a single monitor, but a regular G400 (16/32mb agp) will support twin monitors. I'm sure some of their other G*** cards have the same technology... http://www.matrox.com

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Yossarian

The DDR version is castrated to prevent it from competing too closley with the more expensive GTS2 & GTS2Ultra.

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1266&p=3

Twinview is Nvidia's competitor to Matrox's dual head. After sifting through all the marketing hype, i havent been able to find one consumer card which offers dual monitor support.
Any that do have TwinView support monitor+TV.

Stephen.

TwoShedsJackson

My comp is a PIII 500 with 192 RAM, and a Voodoo3 which i reckon is pretty crap, so:

What would be a good card to get to upgrade?

Where, and how much?

Also, will I notice a difference with that CPU or do you need some monster machine to get the best from a GeForce256 et al?

OSiriS

Yes you will definately notice a difference, even on my p2 333 I got a 30 FPS jump in Q3, as well as an unknown performance jump in other games. You would probably need a faster machine to obtain the full benefits of a gf(2), but you will still notice a sizeable improvement without existing hardware.

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Yossarian

Have you considered a GF2 MX ?

Pretty good performance at a resonable price.


Stephen.

Gerry

oops, sorry about that. I didn't realise you were talking about the ddr gf2 mx. Oh well.
I would still reccomend the geforce ddr over the mx in that case.

WhiteWashMan

hey conor, you actually understand any of that gibberish they are spouting?
get yourself any 32 mg agp graphics card and you'll be ok.

elexes

hows things connor rember me prob dont been ages since ive had to drop somthn into you for eamo anyways . ill buy that card off ya for 30 pounds when your selling it if you r and you should go for a gts card off gerry i think its 200 pounds r somthn good card and i had it in a 550 and it ran grand

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OSiriS

The GF2 mx is £119 in EB, but is £150 in game ...

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_CreeD_

Geforce2 Pro....Hmmmmmmmmmm...... Overclocks very reliably to nigh on ULtra speeds and is much cheaper.

Sliotar

you ppl seem to know your gfx card stuff. can anyone tell me how to completely disable an integrated graphics card? i need to do this before i can upgrade to a proper card, otherwise ill be playin in software mode 400 X 300 for a long time. oh and i know the part about removing it in the device manager but surely there must be more to it than that, to get the system to accept a new card as the primary card.

ne small bit of help will do

elexes

there should be a option in the bios

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WhiteWashMan

dont remove from device manager, just go into properties and DISABLE it.
it should then appear with a big red x on it, and your other card should automatically be selected