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manasecret · 05-29-2002, 10:11 PM

... I won't have the cash exactly on hand until more late June or mid-July. But that's not the problem...

Since the GeForce5 is apparently coming out this fall and is something like twice as powerful as the GeForce4 (so gekko says), I want to know if buying a GeForce4 Ti 4200 (which is $200, I think) and sticking it in my 800Mhz Athlon PC with 512MB (cheapo) RAM I have now would help the performance all that much until I can buy a PC with the GeForce5? I'm playing Morrowind right now and the performance is close to like playing Half-life on a Palm computer -- exaggerated, but in other words it's very sucky and choppy. So would it help my computer?

That's kinda the short version.

The full version of what I'm thinking is this:

I'm thinking about buying the Ti 4200 like I said, and use it in the PC I have now. Then around mid-summer I'll buy a top-of-the-line everything PC except for the video card and put the Ti 4200 in that PC. Then I would wait until fall when the GeForce5 comes out and buy top-of-the-line of the 5's, take the Ti 4200 out and put the 5 in.

The reason I would buy the PC mid-summer instead of just waiting until fall when the GeForce 5 comes out is because I'll be in a different city going to college by that time. So I want to buy the computer at a place I can trust here in Houston and be able to iron out any major problems before I get to a city that I know very little about.

So would that card help all that much? I mean, it would essentially be wasting $200, maybe a little less if I could pawn it off when I get the GeForce 5. Would another card be just as good for what I need right now (which is essentially Morrowind and maybe a game or two more until fall)? Maybe the Radeon 8500 or even the GeForce 4 MX?

Please help.

db

05-29-2002, 10:11 PM	#1
manasecret aka George Washington manasecret is offline Location: New Orleans, LA/Houston, TX Now Playing: CSS Posts: 2,670	Buying new PC, but... ... I won't have the cash exactly on hand until more late June or mid-July. But that's not the problem... Since the GeForce5 is apparently coming out this fall and is something like twice as powerful as the GeForce4 (so gekko says), I want to know if buying a GeForce4 Ti 4200 (which is $200, I think) and sticking it in my 800Mhz Athlon PC with 512MB (cheapo) RAM I have now would help the performance all that much until I can buy a PC with the GeForce5? I'm playing Morrowind right now and the performance is close to like playing Half-life on a Palm computer -- exaggerated, but in other words it's very sucky and choppy. So would it help my computer? That's kinda the short version. The full version of what I'm thinking is this: I'm thinking about buying the Ti 4200 like I said, and use it in the PC I have now. Then around mid-summer I'll buy a top-of-the-line everything PC except for the video card and put the Ti 4200 in that PC. Then I would wait until fall when the GeForce5 comes out and buy top-of-the-line of the 5's, take the Ti 4200 out and put the 5 in. The reason I would buy the PC mid-summer instead of just waiting until fall when the GeForce 5 comes out is because I'll be in a different city going to college by that time. So I want to buy the computer at a place I can trust here in Houston and be able to iron out any major problems before I get to a city that I know very little about. So would that card help all that much? I mean, it would essentially be wasting $200, maybe a little less if I could pawn it off when I get the GeForce 5. Would another card be just as good for what I need right now (which is essentially Morrowind and maybe a game or two more until fall)? Maybe the Radeon 8500 or even the GeForce 4 MX? Please help. db __________________ d^_^b