Do I need a new video card?

[IceBlitz]

Pentium 3 600mhz @ 630mhz
Asus mobo
512mb pc133 RAM
12gig Hard
Voodoo3 2000 16mb
Windows XP prof
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I'm getting 30~70 frames persecond in 1024X768 16bit in Half-life.


Which graphic card would you recommend for this system? I got about 150 US$ to spare.

[This message has been edited by IceBlitz (edited December 07, 2001).]

[GB_Cobber]

GF2 ti
There are a few good ones

Gainward GF2 ti500 with 4ns ram sounds like the bee knees in overclocking.

Suma GF2 ti 4ns,

AbsoluteMM 3D Power Morpheus GF2 ti 4.5ns

Hercules GF2 ti 4ns( hear some bad OC reports tho)

Most people would probably agree with the gainward GF2 ti500 model

Here's a little reference material. Just cap the max scores to your CPU speed and it should be quite acurate.

I spent a couple of Hours benchmarking my GF2 Pro at different clock speeds to see for myself the real difference between GF2 DDR based cards.
There seems to be quite a big difference from slowest to fastest.
Ultra is up to 50% fatser than GTS-V and 35% faster than GTS.

AThlon TB @ 7x119-833MHz,256Mb @ CL-2
MSI GF2 Pro Plus T64D 5ns EliteMT SDram.
MDK2 Demo Open GL benckmark. Its old but its fast and fine for a clock speed comparison,also very stable under the highest clock speed.I saw a little texture tearing with mem at 520.Very little and windows was clean.This is 5ns(400Mhz) ram,mind.
Det4 22.80,GeForce tweaker for overclocking.

FSAA off, Vsync off,otherwise settings at driver defaults.

640x480-16 = 118fps at any speed so is my CPU base score.

175/286 - GTS-V

1024x768-16 = 115.5
1024x768-32 = 88.5
1280x1024-16 = 93
1280x1024-32 = 56.5

200/333 - GTS

1024x768-16 = 117
1024x768-32 = 101.5
1280x1024-16 = 105
1280x1024-32 = 67

200/400 - Pro

1024x768-16 = 118
1024x768-32 = 112
1280x1024-16 = 112.5
1280x1024-32 = 80.5

248/400 - Ti

1024x768-16 = 118
1024x768-32 = 112.5
1280x1024-16 = 113
1280x1024-32 = 82

248/460 - Ultra

1024x768-32 = 115
1280x1024-16 = 116
1280.1024-32 = 93

240/490 - Safe

1024x768-32 = 116
1280x1024-16 = 117
1280x1024-32 = 97

248/520 - Max

1024x768-32 = 116.5
1280x1024-16 = 117.5
1280x1024-32 = 102.5


1024x768-32 2xFSAA + anisotropic filtering(default level)

175/286 = 36.5 - GTS-V
200/333 = 43.5 - GTS
200/400 = 52 - Pro
248/400 = 54 - Ti
248/460 = 60.5 - Ultra
200/490 = 61
240/490 = 64
248/520 = 68.5

800x600-32 2xFSAA + anisotropic filtering(default level)

175/286 = 59 - GTS-V
200/333 = 69.5 - GTS
200/400 = 82 - Pro
248/400 = 84 - Ti
248/460 = 93.5 - Ultra
200/490 = 94.5
240/490 = 97
248/520 = 101.5
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• MSI K7Pro(750 Irongate)Super Bypass
• ASUS V6600 Pure GF256 SDR 5ns SG 120/166 top speed 167/218 NV 7.78 , 12.90 & 21.85 Drivers,NVMax3
• 2718 3D2k1 (DF)833 165/216 12.90dvr, 2927-22.40dvr
• MDK2 max 1024x768-16=115fps,-32=72,640x480-16=125