need advice

hellfire · Commander **Joined**: 09 Jan 2003 **Location**: Canada

Ok well right now my comps runnin 400mhz celeron 7.6 gig hd 64 megs ram and an ati 3d rage pro. NOw the next to weeks I hav a job opportunity that should pull almost 500 and I can either get Geforce 4 or 80 gig hd with some extra ram. I was wonderin which should I get.

D · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 11:02 pm Post subject:

80gigs n the ram, the geforce 4 will b out dated soon in a few months, so i'd get tyhe gigs and ram, cos they always practical, then save up for geforce whatever

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Banshee · Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2003 3:04 am Post subject:

GeForce will give you more performance, but stay with only 7.6 gig in the hard disk is really a torture, and 64 mb RAM is too few. So, I recommend the hard disk and the RAM.

DeathRay2K · Commander **Joined**: 01 Sep 2002 **Location**: Canada

80GB HD and at least 128MB RAM, then save up for a Geforce FX... It's about $500 USD.

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hellfire · Commander **Joined**: 09 Jan 2003 **Location**: Canada

really I found one for 129 canadian. Thats why I wanted to get one.

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All hail me

Banshee · Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2003 4:49 pm Post subject:

GF4 has several models. From worse to best, there is:

GF4 MX 400
GF4 MX 420
GF4 MX 440
GF4 MX 440 AGP 8X
GF4 MX 440SE AGP 8X <- mine
GF4 MX 460
GF4 Ti4200
GF4 Ti4600 <- the best

The differences between them are usually clock, memory frequency, bandwidth (specially between the "MX"s and "Ti"s), memory type and even AGP speed. yet the "Ti"s used to have AGP 4x. nVidia has recently released a new Ti model with 8x btw... The difference from the best model to the worse model is very high. (The best GF3 model is better than the worse GF4)

hellfire · Commander **Joined**: 09 Jan 2003 **Location**: Canada

I'll take thaat into account thanks for the input.

K see this is why I want to get it.

XFX Graphics MX440SE 64MB AGP Video Card = $159.99 (Canadian)
I beleive that's about wat u got banshee.

Banshee · Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2003 8:26 pm Post subject:

Yea, that one. The only problem it has is Warcraft3. But to solve it, just add an -opengl to the link of the Warcraft3 (so it runs in OpenGL mode). As for the other games, it runs quite fast and with a good quality images...

DeathRay2K · Commander **Joined**: 01 Sep 2002 **Location**: Canada

I'm saving up for the geforce FX... Very Happy