Radeon PRO 9700 or Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128 8X

[Cayman]

I'm trying to decide on what video card to buy for internet and games. I really like Nvidia stuff I like the 8X AGP support, but should i get the 9700 Pro? I don't need the All in wonder, I won't do any TV or anything like that. <BR><BR>Thanks<BR><BR>Cayman

[Polykranopalous]

depends on you budget really... check this <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://gamespot.com/gamespot/features/pc/nvidiageforcefx/2.html">page</a> (scroll half way down to see chart) out its Gamespots hardware page. It compares the best cards out on the market. The 9700 Pro is much better than the Ti 4200, but is also a little more expesnsive. Like I said before it all depends on your budget, if you don't want to spend a whole lot of money on a card, than I'd recommend getting the Ti42000 because it still is an amazing card

[Colin]

The Ti4200 is still a fast card, but it's nto the best <b>budget</b> GPU around anymore... Cayman, the best value is probably the Radeon 9500 Pro (assuming you don't want to mod the card). Polykranopalous raises a good question, how much do you want to spend? If $$$ is not an issue, get the 9700 Pro, it's the fastest on the market right now.

[Polykranopalous]

or if you can wait for a bit get the GeForce FX

[Cayman]

The 9700 is in the budget.<BR><BR>ASUS P4PE deluxe mb<BR>antec plus 1080 case w 430 True ps<BR>P4 2.4Ghz 533FSB processor<BR>512MB PC2700 ram<BR>Logitech MX-300 Optical mouse<BR>WD 80GB SE 8mb Cache HD<BR>ATI Radeon 9700 PRO 128MB 8X<BR>ASUS 52x24x52 CD Burner<BR>XP PRo <BR>Extra 80mm case fans 5 total<BR>Sound Blaster Live X-Gamer Card (from old system)<BR>Creative FPS 2000 speakers (from old system)<BR>Round IDE Floppy cable<BR>Round IDE 24" cable<BR>Round ATA 133 Cable<BR><BR>Just about to order...<BR><BR>Cayman<BR>

[Polykranopalous]

sounds like a good rig even for an Intel...<BR><BR>(You could save yourself some money by going with AMD...P4 2.4ghz in Canadian dollars is like $330, while the AMD ATHLON XP 2100+ in canadian dollars is only like $168, hmmm not sure though if AMD proccessors runs faster than an Intel cpu, theres one for Colin to answer!)

[Colin]

Cayman go for the Radeon 9700 Pro then. It's a wicked videocard and should last you a year.<BR><BR>Polykranopalous both processors will run about the same in benchmarks.

[Avid6eek]

Very nice system you got there. I guess it's okay that you go with Intel. The last 5 people to join the forum have been AMD, so if 1 new Intel rig is added into the mix, it's no big deal. Kind of funny how AMD has like 20% of the overall market share, but they have at least 60% market share in these forums <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

[bluegreenshxt]

<br><br><< <i>Very nice system you got there. I guess it's okay that you go with Intel. The last 5 people to join the forum have been AMD, so if 1 new Intel rig is added into the mix, it's no big deal. Kind of funny how AMD has like 20% of the overall market share, but they have at least 60% market share in these forums <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"></i> >><br><br><BR><BR>i kno eh...i wish all the computers in my school are all athlons...LOL....(im a big amd fan too) heheh (ever since my 300 or 333 amd cpu LOL)

[Avid6eek]

My highschool as all Dell/Intel, and now my college is all Dell/Intel and Mac/Power G4.

[Polykranopalous]

My highschool has the latest computer from ibm...P1's a yeah now that is some mager speed

[Avid6eek]

lol. Ours were old, but not that told. Of course I graduated over 2 years ago. At the time they were PIII 500's. Pretty close to the top of the line at the time. The best may have been 800Mhz to 1Ghz.

[Polykranopalous]

Our school I think mostly has P3's 800mhz (could be wrong about the speed)...but alst year in my business class we had P1's, they may have even been 486, not too sure because by the time the damn computer started up and you opened a program the class basically only had 20minutes left.

[Colin]

LOL,w hen I was in high school I was still using 386's and 486's!!!<BR><BR>At my university though we're all using P4's and I must say it's a total waste of funds! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif" border="0">

[Polykranopalous]

yeah..when they could have spent all that money on Athlon XP's, shame on them<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif" border="0">

[Colin]

LOL! They don't even need P3's... They should use P2's and lower my tutition...

[Polykranopalous]

no spend all the money on computers...than when I go to college stop upgrading the computers, by than they'll be good ones and than they can lower the tution for me and new comers.

[Colin]

LOL! I'm gonna scream murder for new comps my last year then! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

[Polykranopalous]

its alright I encourage you to...actually how bout giving me a call when you do that and I'll scream murder for new computers with you, I dont need to go to College/University to get a good job, If I have to I'll work flippin burgers over at McD's for minimum wage.

[Colin]

<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif" border="0"> No Polykranopalous I don't want to sound like your folks, but education is very important... YOu should definitely get one.<BR><BR>Hey, start your own thread! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

[Polykranopalous]

<br><br><< <i>Hey, start your own thread!</i> >><br><br><BR>but wait... Shiznit started to steer the conversation over to school so ahhaha

[Colin]

Grr... I'll get him too! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

[Avid6eek]

Even with all your Ghz...you can't catch me <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif" border="0">

[lmpb]

I hate to say this, but when I went to electronics trade school in 81/82 we had all brand new 8086 IBM PCs with PCDOS 1.0!. These things had one 360K 5 1/4 in. floppy and no hard drive. They had 64K of ram and we were told that was way more than one would ever need. The price was a cool $3500.00. Once they would boot on the floppy, we would load BASICA and we were set to go. There was no CGA yet either, just monochorme.

[lmpb]

excuse me. that was 8088, not 8086

[Colin]

<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif" border="0">! Damn lmpb that must have been scary! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> Welcome to PCStats btw! <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

[Avid6eek]

ohhhh, don't want to confuse the performance of a 8088 with a measly 8086. As far as that being the fastest thing you'd ever need, I'd say if you were an Intel user, that was a good statement. All though the P4 now runs at 3+Ghz, the performance is about the same.