GF brands

[tyPo_negitive]

What brands of GF cards do you recomend? Is there any superior for overclocking over any of the others? I need one that will overclock well, and run at a higher FBS. Many have recomended Visiontek in these forums, is this the producer to look for if your an overclocker? Scared i will drop 200+ into a vid card, and it wont be able to handle 135+ fsb. That seems to be what is holding me back right now. Im currently running a TNT2 ultra i picked up a few years back, but it seems to crap out at higher fsb's.

[Pinky]

If it's overclocking you're worried about, any geforce card will work fine (TNT were known for poor out of spec operation).

Think Asus, Visiontek, and Leadtek offer good cards, but now the line between crap and quality is slowly going away as the standards are higher than before...

[RainMaQer]

Lets take mine as an example...
I have a Gainward (listed in sig)... the warranty on mine covers overclocking:D My AGP slot is running at 89 MHz... BX chipset doesn't have a 1/2 AGP divider and I'm on a 133 FSB. I can bench at 140 and it still handles it like a champ... the rest of my computer doesn't however:beer: Most of the GF3's handle high FSB's very well... Just might have to bump down to AGP 2X... but that's not a real loss. Others I seen do well are PNY, Hercules, ASUS?, MSI... haven't too much about the last two... but Visiontek, PNY, Hercules, Gainward.... I know they all overclock really well... the GF3 TI 200's by these manufactuers hit near TI 500 speeds with stock cooling quite often;)

[wildone]

I have a PNY ti 200 and it has done 234/534 at 152 fsb ,my memory is holding me back now ,I have ran it at 160fsb without problems but I had to back of the memory settings which lowered my score ,also these cards have a lifetime warranty ,if you will wait about a month ,all the gf3's should go down.

wildone

[Cisco Kid]

Originally posted by tyPo_negitive
What brands of GF cards do you recomend? Is there any superior for overclocking over any of the others? I need one that will overclock well, and run at a higher FBS. Many have recomended Visiontek in these forums, is this the producer to look for if your an overclocker? Scared i will drop 200+ into a vid card, and it wont be able to handle 135+ fsb. That seems to be what is holding me back right now. Im currently running a TNT2 ultra i picked up a few years back, but it seems to crap out at higher fsb's.


You do nopt have to worry about any of the newer video cards being able to run 135 fsb, heck my Rage Fury Pro worked on my Abit BE6-II version 1.0 mobo at 133 fsb with a PIII 700 overclocked to 933.

I use a Radeon 7500 and it has run fine at 150 fsb but I have settled for 137 fsb since my mobo drops USB after 138 due to via chipset and USB issues....

I agree with what Pinky has said.

Cisco Kid