Voodoo 3

[King Onion]

I have a Voodoo 3 in my computer right now. When the geforce fx comes out i want to upgrade it. I have a budget of about $100. Please tell me your suggestions. I want it mostly to play games like age of mythology and Civ 3 and games with that kind of graphics and higher.

[Evil-Lab-Monkey]

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduc...ion=14-128-116

GAINWARD/CARDEXPERT GeForce 3 Ti200 128MB (NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200 GPU), Power Pack Golden Sample, ( 4ns 128MB DDR. ).
Specifications:
GPU:Nvidia GeForce3 Ti 200
MEM:128MB ultra fast DDR 4ns
RAMDAC: 350MHz
Support AGP 2X/4X
Overclocking enhanced performance mode. TV-Out.
OS Support: Windows® 2000, NT® (all), 9x, ME,XP, API support, OpenGL®
1.2 and lower , DirectX® 8.X
PortsB-15 VGA + S-Video Out Retail box. (Comes with Driver S-Video Cable and WINDVD Software)
Mfr's P/N: V87TI200 (128MB)

105.00

[Blakhart]

An ati 8500 will be just as cheap, and faster than a gf3 too. Plus, many hold that ati has a prettier picture than nvid does.
That Gainward is not a bad card tho. I have seen gf4ti4200s for a similar price, and some new ati 9700s are going for less than $240. The only thing that will touch a 9700 is the new $400 gf fx.
While I have a gf3 and a gf4ti, they are not the prettiest, image quality wise. I hope a 9700 will make a diff in my case. What I am getting at is if you can save up and get a dx9 card, such as the 9700 now, you will not be playing catch up next time. The 9700 has 256 bit wide data transfers on board, to the gf fx's 128 bit wide. There is more, such as floating point operation all the way thru the card, unlike the gf3/4 classes. This is just a more accurate card, image wise.
Pretty cool that such an advanced card is getting cheaper every day. And has fatter pipes than the as yet unreleased gf fx.
Ok, I will shut up now.



Plus I may want your voodoo card.