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Old 02-04-2002, 01:09 AM   #41
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It's all about what you want to get out of it. A GF2 class card will offer very acceptable performance in all but the most demanding games... for $40-$100 US.

A GF3 or Radeon 8500 will set you back $200 or more and (at least for me) better than double the performance.

For the same cash you can get a GF2 AND a burner.

It depends on what you really want.
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Old 02-28-2002, 12:17 PM   #42
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I have recently (...half a year ago) bought 1.4Ghz pc from my vendor for about $2000, and here are the specs:

P-4 1.4Ghz
256 mb rdram
GeForce 2 GTS pro 64 DDR
40Gb hard drive
and a 17" samsung monitor

I'm not really satisfy with my GeForce 2 card(although the graphics are still pretty good). I actually wanted to get a GeForce 3 Ti 500 or the ATI radeon 8500 (which one is better?). I hope that NWN will run smoothly with my computer, although bioware claims that the minimum requirement is 300Mhz(???), but from the past experience we had with BGII, I think that it will be way higher than that (maybe about P-III 800Mhz?)
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Old 02-28-2002, 01:11 PM   #43
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I'm a loyal nvidia customer ever since 3dfx went out... but the 8500 is a FAST card. I think I'd still take the ti500 because it's quite a bit cheaper than the 8500... but ati has a very nice product. You might also consider waiting just a bit... the 128meg cards are coming and they'll be 30%+ faster than either the ti500 or the 8500.
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Old 03-01-2002, 01:44 PM   #44
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I have did a lot of researches and inquiries, based on what i know, i believed that the ATI radeon 8500 card is a little bit cheaper than the GeForce 3 Ti 500...

Surely everyone knows that GeForce 4 is way better than GeForce 3, but i can say with confident that it will be way more expensive than GeForce 3, too. Remember GeForce 2 Ultra??? If i am correct, the first few months it arrived, the selling price was up the roof...
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Old 03-02-2002, 04:22 PM   #45
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Originally posted by Vassili_Zaitsev:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I CANT PLAY IT !!!! ARGGHHHHH GOD DAMMNIT!! IT WOULD RUN I GOT A 400MHZ CELERON PROCESSOR, 196MB RAM, CABLE MODEM, BUT I HAVE A SHITTY 8MB VID CARD! DOES THIS MEAN I CANT PLAY IT? AND I DONT NEED TO HEAR THE GO BUY A VID CARD THING CAUSE IM BROKE, I GOT FIRED FROM WENDYS SO IM BROKE BUT I CAN GET MY FRIEND JASON TO GIVE ME SOME MONEY.. HE OWES ME LIKE 20 DOLLERS ANYWAYS. WHAT AM I GONNA DO MAN? WHAT AM I GONNA DO? IM FUCKED, IM SCREWED NOTHING I CAN DO! HELP AHHHH!!

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Old 03-05-2002, 05:21 AM   #46
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hmm my computer obliterates that minimum spec except for my graphics card,(still using a voodoo 3) lol
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Old 03-07-2002, 11:57 PM   #47
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Originally posted by Micah Foehammer:
Is this a "you show me yours, I'll show you mine thing", Thoran? LOL

If so ...

Machine 1:

Dual 1 gig processors
1 GIG of RAM
171 Gigs of HD space - 6 stacked Ultra Wide SCSI Hard drives (4 - 36 gig, 1 - 18 gig, 1 - 9 gig) - dual controllers
DUAL 21" monitors!



*drools* I've only got a pIII 550 with 256mb RAM, 32mb GeForce2mx (the only thing that's any good [img]smile.gif[/img] ), 20gb HD and a 56k dialup [img]tongue.gif[/img]

And unfortunatly, my list of things to buy goes somthing like this
1: New car
2: New snowboard
3: New computer
So maybe by the time I have the dosh for a comp, your specs will be moderately affordable (thinking along the lines of 2010) [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Old 03-24-2002, 01:03 AM   #48
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Originally posted by Thoran:
It's all about what you want to get out of it. A GF2 class card will offer very acceptable performance in all but the most demanding games... for $40-$100 US.

A GF3 or Radeon 8500 will set you back $200 or more and (at least for me) better than double the performance.

For the same cash you can get a GF2 AND a burner.

It depends on what you really want.
Kewl thanx for the info! [img]smile.gif[/img] I got a burner the other day and might try and pick up a GeForce 2 in the near future [img]smile.gif[/img]
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