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Oraculaca
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Posted: 17th Mar 2003 21:26
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Well ive been having a tough time off it with my PNY Geforce 4600ti . In 3 months of owning it ,it has been bust for about 2. Ihave looked up some forums and it seems there are numerous complaints about PNY's cooling and a dodgy batch of onboard ram. I have since asked for my money back from DAB's and was wondering if any of you lot could suggest a decent card in the £250 range that i should purchase?? bearing in mind that the only FX card ive read a review on was made by ..... you guessed it ... PNY
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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 17th Mar 2003 21:31
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Creative cards are the best for Games ... they usually run on homegrown drivers and are generally more comptible than other makes because of this.

[url=http://www.watford.co.uk]Watford Electronics[/img]
you can get something quite outstanding for £250 from Watford Electronics
and they plan to sell GeForce FX Mx very soon which will be WELL worth it - as all they are, are slower GeForce FX Ultra/Ti's
i'm not sure (cause i've not checked in a few days) but if you can afford a Quadro, GET ONE

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Morcilla
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Posted: 17th Mar 2003 21:33
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I have Gigabyte's Maya II - Radeon 9700 pro based card.
It's only rock'n'roll.
The only problem I have is to know if my DBPRo programs will be as fast in other computers as they are in mine.
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lcfcfan
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Posted: 17th Mar 2003 21:43
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i reccomend buying a graphics card made by xfx they make good cards based on nvidia chipsets and you can overclock them without problems http://www.xfxforce.com/ i really reccomend them as mine has been excellent.

2ghz, ati radeon mobility 32mb DDR, 30gb, 256mb DDR ram, Win Xp
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Oraculaca
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Im swaying towards a Radeon 9700 pro . Are they not meant to run a lot cooler because of the lower clock speeds? and apparently the speed difference between that and the 5800 ultra is marginal at the moment (although no doubt that will change once dx9 is utilised). Also the 9700 has been out longer so the price has dropped considerably.

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 17th Mar 2003 22:19
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somedays i kinda wonder though why people don't buy directly from nVidia like myself... they've simply got the best versions of thier cards

have GeForce 4 Ti 4600, Quadro2 550, Quadro4 XGL 900, GeForce FX 660 (nv30 beta c), Quadro FX 2000 from them ... they're quite cheap and i've never had any problems at all, but the GeForce2 mx 200 i have which i got from Power3D the Fan on it has brokendown so many times its beyond a joke.
Luckily the card is cool enough to run without it for upto a week without perminant damage - but still is annoying.

if you ever have £1,200 get yourself a Quadro FX 2000, its essentially a GeForce FX with Quadro extensions - but considering the GeForce FX (nv30) runs at 1Ghz, this card has 2layer version of the same processor with OpenGL specific extensions & it runs at 2Ghz
i'm gonna love seeing how the FireGL 5 is going to keep up with even the pure raw power of that card hehee

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Oraculaca
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Posted: 17th Mar 2003 23:15
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ooooooooooh i wish I did but I dont think ill ever have that much for a graphics card

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rapscaLLion
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Posted: 17th Mar 2003 23:36
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lol I have to agree with Raven.

Anyway, I'm picking up a cheap All-In-Wonder for my comp right now, just to tide me over till I get my new comp For that it'll be either FX or 9700 Pro, unless something is better out then!

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 18th Mar 2003 15:11
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Raps in around a months time the GeForce FX Mx range is released...

GeForce FX 560mx has identical features to the GeForce FX 520Ti, only different will be the price tags and speed
mx 350Mhz - $150 ; ti 600Mhz - $600

but essentially apart from the major speed difference its has everything the top end one does - and the Mx is still a good 15% faster than the 4600ti

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 19th Mar 2003 10:39 Edited at: 19th Mar 2003 10:41
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Hey check it http://65.54.168.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=671a205c71d3df209084ad6913bd1b60&lat=1048062919&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2esavastore%2ecom%2fitem%3f21174254%26itemcode%3d10262161MSi GeForce4 4800 Ti only for £149 (+free delivery within 3-5days)

not the most powerful on the market i'll warrent you, however MSi is probably one of THE more reliable you can get your grubby hands on
and you'd have £110 left over, which if you pay not they're doing a special deal on 6.1 Surround Sound Speakers + Diamond Sonic Blue Set for under £100
or you could grab some extra ram.

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Rich gonna have to have to do something about the recognised characters within the links - as it should recognise the whole link after the '=' to the ']' but it doesn't which is confusing

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Oraculaca
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doh says the links inactive cheers anyways

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Shadow Robert
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damn it...

http://www.savastore.com/item?21174254=itemcode&10262161
stupid hotmail does that bloody annoying thing to everything ... that should work in the morning once SavaStore is back up

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Oraculaca
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Posted: 21st Mar 2003 12:29
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LOOOL 'Were sorry but we are closed for essential maintenance'

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 21st Mar 2003 14:55
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ho hum... well just keep trying

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Marcusmole
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i once tried msi stuff and had nothing but trouble but that was jus me but if you are still looking for a gfx card i dont if you can get the 9800pro yet but they are pretty f**king amazing

Mole of the mini variety and general all round dude
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Watcha folks!

well im back after a self imposed exile(I forgot my password after reformating my HD and locked myself out :-s ). Anyways after a failed attempt to find out my pasword from Rich I went and got myself a Radeon 9700 pro and imagine my horror when i logged in here seems to be running ok though....

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Shadow Robert
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lol ... aww and just when they started selling GeForceFX 5200's for £60

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