My lovely Geforce4 need an update

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simon27

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My old (well not that old) Geforce 4 MX440 need an update... I love it and I think the MX440 is sexy even when I can't play CS1.6 fine, but I love it. But it's time to get a replacement, so I can do my all days 3D work and play when I get so so borred.

I only accept NVIDIA nothing else! I use linux and the ATi support for Linux driver just sucks. Also, now ATi got a partership or somethng like that with Microsoft (xbox 360), so I am not buying ATi for a long long long time (yes I hate Gates so much).

So I need a car that can do these next things:

- Last for athleast a year, or maybe two
- A max budget of 230$ - So I think everything goes down to the 6600GT series.
- nVidia ONLY
- That can play my favs game: doom 3, painkiller, unreal tournament... and I'd like if it could play the next generation game in low or medium qualy
- I don't care if it's noisy in stock, because I'm changing the stock fan to a water cooling block.

I did a litle research on newegg and I get everything to these 4 6600gts:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814130214 - Evga

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814127147 - MSI

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814143026 - BFG

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814122208 - Leadtek

My thoughts: I like very much the eVGA and the BFG, the only thing I don't like from the BFG is that it is OpenGL 1.5 :eek: but I sit down and think... is that a typo from newegg?!!?!??!. Leadtek is the same, and it's also clocked at higher speeds... adn the MSI mmm I don't maybe going with that one becuz my new motherboard is a MSI ?

If the OpenGL on the BFG is an typo error, I am probabling going with that one because I want this vga to least atleast 1.5 years... and the Lifetime is a plus because when I'm done with this I'll probably give it to my brother.

What are your thoughts about these 4 video cards?

-Simon
 
you could buy a 6800 non ultra for $200ish and use rivatuner to unlock the 4 pipes making it from 12 to 16, add some overclocking and you can come close to 6800gt performance.
 
All the cards with the same chipsets will have the same capabilities. i.e. all 6600GT will perform very close to the same and have the same specs and capaibilities (OpenGL).

I have the BFG 6800 OC (you can get them for $230 or less if you look hard) and have been very happy with it. 6600GT is also a great purchase (I don't know your system specs) and might be all your system can handle anyways.

I have had both MSI and BFG and have been happy with them as a company, probably more so with the BFG.

Here's the BFG 6800 OC that I own for $199 after a $30 rebate. A great deal and from a good retailer:
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=326003&affiliate=pricegrabber


 
Well... maybe I can get 20 bucks more and my budget goes up to 250$...

But I was looking at that card, and it is DDR, and I ask you know, a 6800 DDR is better than a GDDR3 ??? If so I will take a look around the 6800nu...

Thanks :D

-Simon
 
The 6800nu with DDR memory is a little faster, when using aa/af, than a 6600gt with GDDR3. If you can unlock the pipes it gets a good bit faster.
 
The difference between DDR and GDDR3 really only comes down to the clock speeds you can run them at.

The 6800NU, while being clocked slower has more pipelines (12 instead of 8, with the possibility of unlocking to 16) and a wider memory bus (256-bit instead of 128). It's a faster card.
 
simon27,

First of all, all four of the cards that you're looking at are PCI-e (PCI-Express) cards, not AGP cards. That means that you must upgrade not only your current GeForce4 MX440 (which is a 4x AGP card), but also your motherboard and CPU (and maybe memory as well). And all those upgrades put together will cost more than you're looking to spend.

If you want to upgrade just the video card in your system, here are the AGP versions of the four cards:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130220 - eVga

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814127150 - MSI

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143027 - BFG

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814122206 - Leadtek
 
yea eagle I already knew that.

I already have a new Motherboard... so I only need a amd64 cpu :D

I think I'll stick with the eVGA :D

Thanks all!
 
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