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*sigh* Video Card!
« on: March 3, 2003 03:46 pm CST »
I had $100 in gift cerfiticates at Best Buy.. I just got NWN and realized that well It doesn't like 3dFX...

SO I decided to go out and buy a GF4 MX 64DDR for $79 (online price)

I went out to buy it.. I was looking all over, and all I seen was the reg 64 SD which wouldn't be better enough than my VD to waste the gift cards..

I ask the guy about the card and he pointed out an Avalanch GF4 MX440 64 DDR.. It said exactly that on the box, and it was $99 so I figured what the hell..

I take it home, it is a forking accelerator.. (I would have known because it said MMX440-SE, but I wasn't looking at each card to see what is what)

So now I am thinking well wtf.. Why not just get spend $130 of my own including the return price on the MX440 and get a damn ti (I forget the number) 128DDR...

Hell I won't need another card for around 5 years..
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« Reply #1 on: March 3, 2003 05:21 pm CST »
You are dumb. Take back anything you bought that says nVidia on it.

I would have gone with the ATi Radeon 9500 Pro, with that 100 gift certificate, it would only be 120$.  Much better than all that crap.  It's comparable to a GF4 Ti4600 in performance.

Or if you are that cheap, get a Radeon 9000 Pro, only 20$ after your gift certificate.
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Gotta love SBC with their 6Mbps tier for 45$
(Yes, on their site it only shows 3Mbps, but it is actually 6Mbps, I would know :)).


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« Reply #2 on: March 3, 2003 05:43 pm CST »
I would never put anything before a gforce...
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« Reply #3 on: March 3, 2003 06:10 pm CST »
Exactly.  Nvidia's GeForce3 technology completely changed the way we play games today.  Goooo nVidia!
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« Reply #4 on: March 3, 2003 06:59 pm CST »
screw gforce 4! i have a gforce 3 better than a few gforce 4's, and ozzy, NWN is so OLD! now your buying it? lol everyone is gonna be lvl 20...
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« Reply #5 on: March 3, 2003 07:03 pm CST »
Hell, I have just even begun to consider buying NWN Razore.  Oh, and if you are saying that a GeForce3 ti500 is more powerful than a Geforce4, you are wrong.  Well, unless you are referring to a GF4 MX.  Those things are for casual to mid range gamers.  Im all the way with Nvidia!  Goooo GeForce FX!
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« Reply #6 on: March 3, 2003 07:04 pm CST »
no im now saying that they ALL are, mine is better than like 1 gforce4, at least thats what my dad and my bro told me
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« Reply #7 on: March 3, 2003 07:07 pm CST »
That only applies for the MX brand.  Nothing else.  


-2 Vertex Shaders (GeForce3 has only 1)
-LMA2 - enhances the GeForce4's use of available bandwidth
-Faster core and memory clock speeds, leading to larger fill rates, more  
vertex processing power, and greater memory bandwidth
-Accuview AA - improves anti-aliasing
-nfiniteFX2 - improves vertex and pixel processing, giving the GeForce4 up to 3 times the vertex power of the GeForce3
-nView - nVidias multi-display support, allowing several devices to be connected at once, including CRT (VGA), DVI, and TV out. No previous nVidia card has had such advanced multiple-display support.
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« Reply #8 on: March 3, 2003 07:15 pm CST »
i dotn give a malarkey! its just a video card! argh!
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« Reply #9 on: March 3, 2003 07:22 pm CST »
Waves a framerate of 110 over Razores head

HERE DOGGY DOGGY DOGGY DOGGY!
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« Reply #10 on: March 3, 2003 07:28 pm CST »
I dunno.  I get 250fps in Quake 3 with my GF3 Ti500.
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« Reply #11 on: March 3, 2003 08:12 pm CST »
VERY nice card part. I myself have a Ge Force 4 MX 440 64meg DDR SE. Its very good. I might be changing to a Ti 4600 or maybe even the new Ti 4800. But thats after i get my new 2 gig DDR nvidia motherboard. (good to work in a computer shop). but Ozzy Nwn is a great game. i only played for like 2 hours cause i found it realy hard. But the Ge Force 4 440 is a good card. Make sure you dont get the MX 400 or MX 420 cause they are only SD and score 1000 less in 3D mark 2001 SE. For $10 u can add 1000 score...nice ;)
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« Reply #12 on: March 3, 2003 08:28 pm CST »
I also own a GeForce3 ti500.  Its a very dependable card, though I have noticed some slowdowns in some games.  But that was only before i formatted my PC.  That comp was running windoze ME, and no telling how many pr0n viruses were on it.
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« Reply #13 on: March 3, 2003 09:07 pm CST »
Kazaa is bad ummmkay
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« Reply #14 on: March 3, 2003 10:42 pm CST »
Dont act like Darwin, mmmkay?
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