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Well considering my price range i have been looking for a new video card and doing a bit of research. From what i have seen some of the more current cards offered in the Nvidia FX line and the ATI Pro series are no better then what i already have. So i am a bit stumped on what to do. Below are my current card specs.
VISIONTEK NVIDIA GEFORCE 4 Ti 4400
4x AGP
128MB
Core Clock: 275Mhz
Memory Clock: 550Mhz
RAMDAC: Dual 350Mhz
8.8Gb/second memory bandwidth.
1.12 Trillion operations per second
125 million triangles/sec setup.
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Now I guess one of the questions which may be the key i am missing is how much of a differance does AGP 8x give over 4x. Surprisingly the Geforce FX 5600 Ultra which is 256MB, 1.3 fil rate (my card is 1.1) still has the same 8.8GB/second memory bandwidth. In some of the cards i looked at the clock speed is even lower.
On the ATI side of things i pretty much have witnessed the same results.
I was looking to spend around $200 dollar area to upgrade to an 8x AGP card and perhaps a 256MB one at that. So far i have found the cards, but it seems they offer nothing worth spending 200 dollars over at all when i compare their specs to that of my Ti 4400.
Does 8x AGP or the 256MB from 128 make that much of a differance? Or am i perhaps just stumbling upon crap card producing companies. Thx for any advice/tips you can give me.
VISIONTEK NVIDIA GEFORCE 4 Ti 4400
4x AGP
128MB
Core Clock: 275Mhz
Memory Clock: 550Mhz
RAMDAC: Dual 350Mhz
8.8Gb/second memory bandwidth.
1.12 Trillion operations per second
125 million triangles/sec setup.
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Now I guess one of the questions which may be the key i am missing is how much of a differance does AGP 8x give over 4x. Surprisingly the Geforce FX 5600 Ultra which is 256MB, 1.3 fil rate (my card is 1.1) still has the same 8.8GB/second memory bandwidth. In some of the cards i looked at the clock speed is even lower.
On the ATI side of things i pretty much have witnessed the same results.
I was looking to spend around $200 dollar area to upgrade to an 8x AGP card and perhaps a 256MB one at that. So far i have found the cards, but it seems they offer nothing worth spending 200 dollars over at all when i compare their specs to that of my Ti 4400.
Does 8x AGP or the 256MB from 128 make that much of a differance? Or am i perhaps just stumbling upon crap card producing companies. Thx for any advice/tips you can give me.
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