http://www.overclockers.com/tips00568/

 

For the moment.......

Without looking at the link, are you trying to imply my Geforce 4 FX 5200 rules too?

Yes

I read the article on upgrades, and huh. I'll need to beg for a new video card when we do end up getting a new computer. That sucks, cause my parents are NOT going to buy an upgraded card just for me

gefx 5200 rules? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... pause for breath AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. My old gf 4 mx440 was almost better. Hell, the 9600 SE I have is noticeably better, and its specs seem to be lower. The gefx5200 was the worst 50 bucks (other than Halo PC) I ever spent. Of course, this is also without looking at the link. lol

I don't care, I'm sticking with my ATI All in wonder 9600 pro

the new card makes me drool omg it is going to blow ATI outta the water, now if only i could find that link on the article on it...

here they r

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040414/index.html

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_geforce_6800_ultra/

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1708.4/

Somethign you happily neglect is the power requirement

I think a good quality 400 watter will do it. Antec Enermax etc.Especially if you are runniing newer AMD cpu's that do not use much power. This will be a huge benefit to the people that are using the power hungry Intel's.Time will tell and you may be right.

Yeah I"m not changing my power supply just to get a new graphics card, cause nvidia makes em too bulky

Ive bought myself a thermaltake 560W a year ago. I was stupidly using a g4ti4600 AMDXP1800+ on a 300W. Lemme just say that it was the best 80$CAD i ever spended. Double cooler same voltage (no voltage fluctuation) and a serious increase in performance. As for the new nvidia that thing will blow ATI outta its feet. http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040414/geforce_6800-02.html WHAT ELSE THEN JUST WOOOOW.

Ive seen many people arguing that ATI was in the market from the beginning. This is my little history about the graphical market in the last 7 years. Once upon a time there where 2 kingdoms. 1 was called Nvidia and the other was called 3dfx. They where both neck to neck in the battle of the uber graphics card. At one point 3dfx lost the battle in the memorable year of 2000. Thats when nvidia bought 3dfx making their kingdom bigger. Then this canadian firm called ati started to pick up speed. And soon the battle between nvidia and 3dfx turned into nvidia and ATI. Ati started slow introducing cards for the family and not for the pro. Things changed by the start of 2002 when they started producing better cards. ATI almost won the battle in the glorious year of 2003 when nvidia produced the somewhat crappy(for their standards) NV3X family. Now in the present day it looks like that lost territory was recovered and its again neck to neck for the uber card in the world. We as gamers Nvidia or Ati strong supporters should be really happy about this battle. Why? simply because it offers us a race that only we can profit out of obligating the 2 company's to come with bigger and better cards each fiscal term. Imagine if ATI wouldnt get into the fight what would of we done if only nvidia was there (altough i am a strong nvidia fan). We would of had no competition and it would end up into a microsoft (windows) type of thing. Where microsoft produces crappy software that we have to digest because they are the only firm out there that provides mainstream op system. (SURE linux is awsome but u can say bue bye compatibility with our day to day games).Another thing that u can compare it too is like imagine if in USA there was only one party that would always be stronger than the other) So botom line is this. I like nvidia u like ati shut the hell up about it and be happy that u can choose. And lets pray to god that none of them will fail or close because we as gamers are doomed if that happened.

I have tried ATI a few times and had nothing but problems with incompatabilities. Soundblaster Live issues. IRQ issues. Mobo issues.I cannot remember a Nvidia card that gave me problems except for the wonderful FX5200. YUK. I have tried a bunchof ATI's and will not again for a long time.It is a good battle for all and like he said.Be happy with what you have.The grass is always greener on the other side till that grass gets too low. Then the other side looks awefully good again.

I read the article on upgrades, and huh. I'll need to beg for a new video card when we do end up getting a new computer. That sucks, cause my parents are NOT going to buy an upgraded card just for me

Hey, man, if I can convince my penny-pinching mum who still lives in the 50's and doesn't even know how to turn on a computer to buy a router, you can convince your parents for a video card. A good, but fairly inexpensive one is a Radeon 9600XT. I've got the Pro version, and it runs everyhting fine with 4XAA at 1280x1024, but it's core is 100mhz slower.

You can never win with computers.There will always be something better after u buy your amazing vid card or hardware.like mano said be happy that you have a choice.And this new video card that n-vidia is comming out with, i am not to impressed with. i consider it an "improvement" but not a super amazing improvement.its always good to wait and see what the competition brings, then make your choice.