Graphics Card Help
Posted by IanWackett
NVIDIA Geforce 4 MX 440 - £30 in PC World - Awesome!!!
Regards
F Caballero
Regards
F Caballero
get a 9700 pro.
thay are awesome
thay are awesome
NVIDIA Geforce 4 MX 440 - £30 in PC World - Awesome!!!
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If your on a budget, the ATI cards are much better value for money. The 9600 XT is meant to be pretty good.
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If your on a budget, the ATI cards are much better value for money. The 9600 XT is meant to be pretty good.
I've just bought a ATi Radeon 9600XT, great value at only £100 I thought cause I'm upgrading for a new computer, virtually all my parts were upgraded, except the processor/mobo. so atm I've got 1024MB PC3200 DDR Ram, that GFX card, DVD RW, Hercules Game Theatre XP 7.1, 160GB Hard Drive, but a 1.2Ghz Processor still :S.
I didn't expect much change at all, but I was shocked!
When I went to play Call Of Duty for the first time, bearing in mind with my old GeForce4 MX 440, I couldn't get it to work smooth at all, even at lowest GFX at 800x600 
then this arrived! Now I can run maximum graphics at 1024x768 GFX not a lag in site :| even tho I've still got a 1.2Ghz Processor.
In GP4, before I played it with adequate graphics, and got 25FPS, after the GFX card arrived, after a few teething problems I got it to work 1260x1024 everything Max, with 35FPS
Hopefully this weekend, I'm going back down to Overclockers to buy myself a AMD 64 :D dread to think how fast my PC will go with that in it, after seeing the speed its going with my slow 1.2Ghz processor in :|
But now I can say! I'm prepared for Half Life 2 :D
Post Edited (01-12-04 23:38)
PSN/Xbox 360 ID - Ianwoollam
cause I'm upgrading for a new computer, virtually all my parts were upgraded, except the processor/mobo. so atm I've got 1024MB PC3200 DDR Ram, that GFX card, DVD RW, Hercules Game Theatre XP 7.1, 160GB Hard Drive, but a 1.2Ghz Processor still :S.I didn't expect much change at all, but I was shocked!
When I went to play Call Of Duty for the first time, bearing in mind with my old GeForce4 MX 440, I couldn't get it to work smooth at all, even at lowest GFX at 800x600 then this arrived! Now I can run maximum graphics at 1024x768 GFX not a lag in site :| even tho I've still got a 1.2Ghz Processor.In GP4, before I played it with adequate graphics, and got 25FPS, after the GFX card arrived, after a few teething problems
I got it to work 1260x1024 everything Max, with 35FPS Hopefully this weekend, I'm going back down to Overclockers to buy myself a AMD 64 :D dread to think how fast my PC will go with that in it, after seeing the speed its going with my slow 1.2Ghz processor in :|
But now I can say! I'm prepared for Half Life 2 :D
Post Edited (01-12-04 23:38)
PSN/Xbox 360 ID - Ianwoollam
Get a GeForce 4 Ti. they are amazngly cheep for ammount it gives and can be overclocked
Racing Is Life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting
Jesus may be able to heal the sick and bring the dead back to life, but he can't do shît for low fps
Racing Is Life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting
Jesus may be able to heal the sick and bring the dead back to life, but he can't do shît for low fps
oh yeah and ian..does overdrive work for you?
Ain't tried yet :| not really too confident on overclocking, if thats what your on about?
Does anyone know how much this card is ment to be able to overclocked? think my core speed is at 475Mhz atm :|
I got my card at www.overclockers.co.uk, £10 cheaper ^_^
Post Edited (01-13-04 00:29)
PSN/Xbox 360 ID - Ianwoollam
Ain't tried yet :| not really too confident on overclocking, if thats what your on about?
Does anyone know how much this card is ment to be able to overclocked? think my core speed is at 475Mhz atm :|
I got my card at www.overclockers.co.uk, £10 cheaper ^_^
Post Edited (01-13-04 00:29)
PSN/Xbox 360 ID - Ianwoollam
475? =[ mine is 499 the default retail core speed is 500 i believe
also overdrive is in the control panel it doesnt void your warranty and it does it all automatically its just a box you tick ...strange thing is MINE IS NOT THERE!
Post Edited (01-13-04 02:50)
also overdrive is in the control panel it doesnt void your warranty and it does it all automatically its just a box you tick ...strange thing is MINE IS NOT THERE!
Post Edited (01-13-04 02:50)
Ain't tried yet :| not really too confident on overclocking, if thats what your on about?
Does anyone know how much this card is ment to be able to overclocked? think my core speed is at 475Mhz atm :|
That card can be heavily overclocked apparently. Its basically a 9700 I think thats been underclocked (its the same with most low end cards, they make lots of high end cards with high tolorances, and the ones that dont pass are used as low end ones), so you should be able to crank the speed up quite a bit. Keep an eye on system temperatures though, and if you start seeing dodgy errors in games, you've gone too far.
Does anyone know how much this card is ment to be able to overclocked? think my core speed is at 475Mhz atm :|
That card can be heavily overclocked apparently. Its basically a 9700 I think thats been underclocked (its the same with most low end cards, they make lots of high end cards with high tolorances, and the ones that dont pass are used as low end ones), so you should be able to crank the speed up quite a bit. Keep an eye on system temperatures though, and if you start seeing dodgy errors in games, you've gone too far.
I haven't enev started, and I'm already getting weird ripping textures in F1C, thats the only problem I've found so far, I'm hoping tho its got summat to do with my Windows installation or my Motherboard. If not, I'm screwed :S
PSN/Xbox 360 ID - Ianwoollam
PSN/Xbox 360 ID - Ianwoollam
Its not ripping textures you get from too much heat, its where you get white polygons appearing all over the place.
You'll know if you see it trust me, especially in an FPS
You'll know if you see it trust me, especially in an FPS
Well it depends on how much more oomf you've got from the processor and memory, so you might need to overclock to run that higher detail setting.
Also, would you rather game at 25fps, or overclock and enjoy 50fps? I know which I'd rather do.
Also, would you rather game at 25fps, or overclock and enjoy 50fps? I know which I'd rather do.
Just overclocked my Radeon, overclocked the core to 560Mhz and the Memory to 330Mhz, seems to be running ok, with no problems.
Just been reading up that apparantly the P4 Extreme Edition is better than the AMD 64. Only problem is thats about £500, so they can shove that where the sun don't shine
The big speed advantage of the AMD 64 on 32 bit systems will be the 1MB of L2 Cache. as the processor itself is only 2Ghz. Yet when Microsoft do decide to release Windows 64, Jon says that it'll go upto 4Ghz, but I don't beleive him
PSN/Xbox 360 ID - Ianwoollam
Just been reading up that apparantly the P4 Extreme Edition is better than the AMD 64. Only problem is thats about £500, so they can shove that where the sun don't shine
The big speed advantage of the AMD 64 on 32 bit systems will be the 1MB of L2 Cache. as the processor itself is only 2Ghz. Yet when Microsoft do decide to release Windows 64, Jon says that it'll go upto 4Ghz, but I don't beleive him
PSN/Xbox 360 ID - Ianwoollam
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