need help choosing videocard.

[puribong]

Hi..
I am on a budget so i am thinking about cheap videocard. whatever I get these will be better than my card(TNT2) right??
anyways... I am looking at ATI radeon 9000 pro 64MB and Geforce4 FX5200 64MB. both are priced similar on pricewatch. so which would be better for me?
I play few games like counterstike and I'd like to watch dvd and mpegs.

thanks in advance.

 

[1ManArmY]

How much are you looking to spend? List your computer specs so you can get some good reccomendations. What ever you do dont buy a FX 5200.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: puribong
Hi..
I am on a budget so i am thinking about cheap videocard. whatever I get these will be better than my card(TNT2) right??
anyways... I am looking at ATI radeon 9000 pro 64MB and Geforce4 FX5200 64MB. both are priced similar on pricewatch. so which would be better for me?
I play few games like counterstike and I'd like to watch dvd and mpegs.

thanks in advance.

they are both about the same speed. then again the 64mb fx5200 is 64bit memory, you sholud get a 128mb one for a few bucks more for 128bit memory (not all have 128bit, you need one with 8 chips).


now whoever said DO NOT buy an fx5200, thats a bad statement. a 128bit 128mb fx5200 is still much faster than a 9000 pro.

 

[modedepe]

How much $$$ do you want to spend? If you're just going to be playing older games like that, a radeon 8500 or 9100 wouldn't be bad.

 

[1ManArmY]

Well I never compared the FX 5200 to any video card let alone an 9000 PRO. I was waiting for his budget constraints before I made any reccomedations.

 

[Johnbear007]

yeah its best to know your budget first. Both of those cars are pretty mediocre.

a 9000 < than an 8500 am I correct? or are they the same?

 

[modedepe]

Originally posted by: Johnbear007
yeah its best to know your budget first. Both of those cars are pretty mediocre.

a 9000 < than an 8500 am I correct? or are they the same?

8500>8500le=9100>9000

 

[puribong]

well my system has
AMD Athlon XP 1600+
256MB RAM
20GB hard drive.
TNT2
SB live

I am looking to spend like $60 on videocard. I certainly don't need the best one out there. I heard anything outthere is better than TNT2 and I am running ok with TNT2 in Counterstrike. I want something faster than TNT2 and has better graphics overall. Doesn't have to be like 100fps graphic card and i know I should spend like $200 If I want to gaming purpose graphic card. am I right??
anyways I was looking 9000 pro and Geforce b/c they seem very cheap at pricewatch.

 

[1ManArmY]

GF TI 4200 not a bad card but not sure on prices these days.

 

[Jeff7181]

Well, for $60 you're definately not going to get the best... you're going to get pretty much the worst card you can get in the current generation of cards. You could go for a GeForce3 Ti200 which would run CS just fine, but it doesn't have the bells and whistles of the newer GeForce4 and GeForce FX lines. For a few bucks more you could get a GeForce4 Ti4200 with 64 MB of RAM for $85 at newegg. A GeForce3 Ti200 would be $80... so if you can go that high, you may as well go $5 higher and get the Ti4200. But that's really the cutoff point... when you go below the price of a Ti4200 64 MB card, you get, well, to be blunt, junk. Junk is fine for regular office apps, but for games you need a bit more. However... any of the cards mentioned in this entire thread should play CS just fine. It's one of those oldies but goodies =) I can even play it on my old Voodoo3 2000 PCI at decent rates.

 

[hans007]

check out that fs/ft sub board on these forums.


geforce 3s go for about $50 there.


dont get a fx5200 64bit 64mb by all means, it is actually slower than a mx440 128bit 64mb.