Vid card should I upgrade?q

[Frodo Baggins]

Right now, I have an ATI Rage 8mb vid card. Crapm, but I don't play many games ATM. I have some money, and I wonder if I should spend the money to buy a 75$ Geforce 2 card (cn) the only thing I want is a vid card that will let me hit 1.2 gigs, and won't interfere with my OCing, any suggestions>

[Pinky]

Originally posted by Frodo Baggins
Right now, I have an ATI Rage 8mb vid card. Crapm, but I don't play many games ATM. I have some money, and I wonder if I should spend the money to buy a 75$ Geforce 2 card (cn) the only thing I want is a vid card that will let me hit 1.2 gigs, and won't interfere with my OCing, any suggestions>

If you're looking for good overclocking results, then the geforce 2 will work fine... suggest spending a couple $20 more and getting a cheap Geforce 2 Pro card over any MX card... damn the prices dropped since the Radeon's were released!!

[funnyperson1]

i suggest going with the radeon LE for 51$, should whip the pants off any mx.....also the KyroII is a good card for 66$, if you can afford it the Gainward Geforce2 Ti is reallyt good for 140 as it has 4.0ns ram, overclockable to Geforce3 sppeds....

[TRANCER24]

The gainward gf2 ti500 VIVO is the one you want for 139 i think it is the best bang for the buck i have it and am happy with it.

[Frodo Baggins]

Originally posted by funnyperson1
i suggest going with the radeon LE for 51$, should whip the pants off any mx.....also the KyroII is a good card for 66$, if you can afford it the Gainward Geforce2 Ti is reallyt good for 140 as it has 4.0ns ram, overclockable to Geforce3 sppeds....

Your reffering to US cash I'm guessing

[funnyperson1]

yup, sorry US, ask Cisco Kid, and others they know some good canadian sites to order from.....

[Frodo Baggins]

I know all hardware is diferent, but theoretically, would a 98' card like the one I have slow me down from ocing to hgher speeds 120 fsb, or would it matter?

[funnyperson1]

it all depends on whether you have an agp 1/2 dividerm, then it should be fine, but i really suggest you upgrade....

[Pinky]

The reason I didn't suggest the Radeons is because they don't tend to go as high as the geforce cards without issues at a faster AGP speed.

[Frodo Baggins]

oops, wtf have i been thnking, my ATI is AGP 2x. When OCing, the speed of AGP doesn't increase does it? only PCI, so the vid card isn't the resason why I can't go higher which points it down to prolly my ram or the heat

[funnyperson1]

actually yes it does, the speed of the agp bus is normally 1/2 or 2/3 of the front side bus.....the video card normally is not a problem, but it can be....

[Cisco Kid]

www.anitec.ca

www.atic.ca

www.a-power.com

these are the very cheapest places in BC and possibly in Canada

cisco Kid:)

[BrianCapps]

Hmm- I have a *slightly* used Radeon 64 DDR I could sell ya ;)

[Frodo Baggins]

lolm thanx, but no thanx, those are like 300 dollars Canadian brand new. I might stick with my 8 mb one rightnow, trying tofind a ATI TV Wonder VE here in Ottawa