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« Reply #45 on: August 22, 2004 02:12 am CDT »
dude is it any good???

i just ordered it few hours ago
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« Reply #46 on: August 22, 2004 02:12 am CDT »
It sucks ass.

ENJOY.
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« Reply #47 on: August 22, 2004 02:14 am CDT »
fork!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

if it sucks THAT bad then i'll return it =P
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« Reply #48 on: August 22, 2004 02:18 am CDT »
Well it doesn't really suck... except the first week I got it, the GPU fan quit working, and it only comes on every now and then with a horrible squeaking sound... and the TV-out is borked, it'll be black and white when I turn on my TV so I have to turn it on/off a few times before I get a color picture, oh and it has a nice habit of flickering the screen every time you do anything in the Display Properties control panel app, oh and also when you right-click the systray icon for the NVidia goatware that it installs.... and I hope you like video lag.... apart from all that it's a decent card
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« Reply #49 on: August 22, 2004 02:20 am CDT »
dude man! where did you get your vid card??

was it used or somthing?!
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« Reply #50 on: August 22, 2004 02:22 am CDT »
It was new, but I got it at a crappy computer store :)

Like you said yourself, though, it beats my old card! (An ATI Rage 128 32MB AGP with TV-in and TV-out, which was cool until I discovered OpenGL games simply didn't work with it.)
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« Reply #51 on: August 22, 2004 02:23 am CDT »
haha

they probably "tried" to refubish it
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« Reply #52 on: August 22, 2004 09:21 am CDT »
I also bought a geforceFX 5200 about a year ago.  I was incredibly dissapointed in it.  My Geforce3 got better framerates.  You should really listen to me, because the margin between a $150 card and a $190-200 card is so great, you should real consider going a little higher.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDe ... 268&depa=0



My geforce3 has also been having some fan problems.  The fan doesnt stop, but it sometimes makes a horrible noise (as if its scraping the heatsink or something.  I just flick the fan a few times while it is running, and its ok.
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« Reply #53 on: August 22, 2004 09:35 am CDT »
You'll cry if you ever try to play doom 3 or half-life 2 or UT2004 or Quake IV or FarCry or GL Quake.  That card sucks SO much arse.

Why'd you spend $50 on a video card?

<9000 marks for the 5200 ULTRA vs my plain jane 9700 which scores 16676 marks (15,152 marks stock) at 327x630 (my card can actually bench at about 390x640--MUCH higher than 17k)
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« Reply #54 on: August 22, 2004 09:49 am CDT »
And the GF4 Ti4200 easily beats the 9600 =/
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« Reply #55 on: August 22, 2004 11:29 am CDT »
I bought my Geforce4 Mx 420 PCI with TV out and mulitie monitor support for 40 bucks. Brand new. Online. Of course I only play tribes on it. Im sure it couldnt handle anything else.
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« Reply #56 on: August 22, 2004 02:22 pm CDT »
I know one thing for sure.  My 9700 toasts the Ti4600 loner I was using.
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« Reply #57 on: August 22, 2004 02:54 pm CDT »
I bought a R. 9600 for my mom, and it works perfectly..  she plays city of heros on it.  No lag at all.. and it was pretty cheap.
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« Reply #58 on: August 22, 2004 04:10 pm CDT »
I was Lanning at a guy's house, and he sold me the card there, promising me a framerate higher than I got with my Geforce3.  I only had my laptop, so I wasnt able to benchmark it and see the results.

Doom III ran fine on my Geforce3 (before I was able to test it on my 9800 Pro's).

I dont understand where Ozzy gets his information.  A 9600 easily beats the ti4200, even when its OC'ed to a ti4600.
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« Reply #59 on: August 22, 2004 04:30 pm CDT »
I get my information from my own computer.

Ti4200 also outperforms 4600.
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