🚀 go-pugleaf

sie wrote:
> I have bought all the latest cards over the years and your wasting your
> money....quake plays good enough on gf2..it runs no problem at 50fps....as
> the man says...wait because doom 3 will re write the all the rules....stop
> trying to convince yourself.....
> "S.P. Goodman" <earthl...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:aukb99$7qp7s$1@ID-148980.news.dfncis.de...
> 
>><what...@nospam.com> wrote in message
>>news:ut8i0v0cpv0m1djggffh65velgmbo3r5pg@4ax.com...
>>
>>>On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 22:03:19 -0500, "fritistat"
>>><fritista...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Sounds like a GeForce4 Ti4200 may be right up your alley....no gimmicks
>>>
>>(on
>>
>>>>most cards), but a lot of horsepower.
>>>
>>>Yep, that's probably the best deal right there.
>>>
>>>
>>
> http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduct.asp?submit=manufactory&catalog=48&manu
> 
>>factory=1387&DEPA=1&sortby=14&order=1
>>
>>Great, but is there a vendor that one's comfortable with that is in the
> 
> UK?
> 
>>:)
>>
>>
>>
>>>Gainward has a nice 4200.
>>>
>>>Until Doom 3, I wouldn't spend too much on hardware just to get 300
>>>fps in Q3. =)
>>

Yeah, but I believe he mentioned that "she" is upgrading from a voodoo3 
*pci*.  I concur - a voodoo3 is *good enough* - however, a geforce will 
improve things tremendously over a voodoo3.

You are correct, anything above a GF2 GTS is overkill on any P3-style 
(or athlon) PC-133 SDRAM systems under 1.6GHz (haven't tested anything 
above 1.6GHz).  However, I am able to cap at 125FPS with my GF2 GTS on a 
celeron 1.1A @ 1.6GHz (50FPS?!?!? - lol, my old voodoo3 got 80FPS with a 
P3-600 and a _lot_ of tweaks).  NOTE: I only use 1024x768 resolution (no 
lower, no higher).

If you have patience, you can score a 32MB GF2 GTS for like $30 shipped 
ebay (or $40 for the 64MB GF2 GTS), or like I did fetch a nice GF3 Ti500 
for under $60 shipped (or Ti200 golden sample/brownbox)...

Thank god I no longer have to do all those tweaks of years ago, with the 
voodoo3 (particularly, no more cg_forcemodel enabled, and curved 
surfaces looking like rectangles).

PS - as *what* man says?  ;)