Video Cards

[hawkeye177]

What is the best video card on the market for less then $500?

[jaida]

If your talking US dollars then you might as well wait for the geforce 3.

I think it will have an opening price tag of about 400 bucks.

[hawkeye177]

Jaida, when is Geforce3 coming out.

[Richard_Cranium72]

Now
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[Sweeper]

Has anyone picked up one of these cards yet?(Geforce 3) If so, how does it perform. I have seen the benchmarks around, but has anyone HERE used one first hand? I am looking into the ATI Radeon 64 MEG DDR. What will be the big difference OTHER then FrameRate and price between the two? Currently using GF2 MX SDR

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[Hellmund]

It'd be features I'd say, that and the Geforce3 should be around for a while so if you got it now u shouldn't have to upgrade for a long time, but, following NVIDIA's trends i'd say the Geforce3 MX and Geforce3 ULTRA are round the corner and then Geforce4 dare I say.The main reason I'd want to get one is those framerates at 1600X1200X32 are actually playable, man it'd be nice to be able to distinuish teammates at long range in UT. I'm stuck at a miserable 640X480X16 right now. WIth friendly fire on I'm not very popular on LAN due to my shoot everything that moves approach. On the bright side I have a huge killrate most of the time!

[samwichse]

Ditto to the last :-(. I'm stuck at 800X600X16 and have to shoot first and ask questions later. Not so good for your teams score.

Seems like I saw somewhere that Kyro II can have decent playable frame rates at something like 1280X1024X32?

[Sweeper]

How does the ATI Radeon 64meg DDR run? Framerate wise at that high resolution? According to there site it's the best card on the market for it's price. Any have any suggestions? The geforce 3 is a bit expensive for me right now. But I do want to upgrade my video very soon. It either the Geforce 2 GTS or the ATI Radeon DDR. But which one?????

[Hellmund]

Neither the GTS nor the Radeon 64mb DDR is really playable at 1600X1200X32. The GTS's high fill-rate means it'll have higher framerates at about 1280X1024X16 and at 32bit color too. The Radeon has HyperZ technology which basically increases the memory bandwidth,this mean it's able to pull off better framerates above 1280X1024X32 but isn't really as effective in 16bit color. Go here www.tomshardware.com (http://www.tomshardware.com) and you'll find a comparison between the two. Seems radeon seems to only be powerfull at high-res and 32bit color, the Geforece 2 GTS rules all the other domains.

[Sweeper]

Wow. The GeForce 2 Ultra really looks promising. Very close to the GF3. The ATI Radeon looks terrible. (Frame rates) Never really kept up with the rest. Also, didn't really go into detail about picture quality. Now I'm not sure what I want to get. That blew my bubble on getting the ATI Radeon. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif I kept hearing so many good things about it????? Looks like a GF2 Ultra maybe if I can afford it. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif
Sweeper

[samwichse]

Here are some good benchmarks comparing the two big names (ati and nvidia) and the Kyro II at 32 bit color and high resolution. I'm a fan of the Kyro because a) I like the underdog, and b) it's cheap (relatively) and outscores the GTS higher up (unless you like 250 fps at 640X480X16 for some reason). http://www4.tomshardware.com/graphic/01q2/010425/kyroII-17.html

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