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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jul 10th at 9:03pm 2004

i been thinking of upgrading recently.. as with all of us i suppose.

my question, is anyone in the US have a big card they would be willing to sell?

i mean, i noticed a few of you, already have large cards, but still plan on getting bigger ones..

i was wondering, maybe one of you would rather recoup a bit of your past expenditure, and help a fellow pitter move a step up in the process.

currently, i have a 64 meg ATI 9000 agp 4x card.. if you have a bigger card and would be willing to part with it, gimme a holler.

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Posted by Crono on Sat Jul 10th at 9:27pm 2004

Sorry, I'm not buying a new one until the end of the year (its just not worth the upgrade right now). And I'm sticking my current card in a media computer. (which will be so awesome!)

Orph, do you know of any ... "free" ... TV tuner programs?

Oh, also, cards arn't too expensive at the moment, if you waited until the next generation stuff actually came out, this generations stuff will be dirt cheap.
You could probably scoop up a FX5900XT for like $80-$110, and a 9800XT for around the same price. The key factor is patience. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sat Jul 10th at 9:42pm 2004

my goal, some people have more money than sense, and upgrade often.. if they are gonna scrap a big card, i will buy it, assuming its a value..

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Posted by Wild Card on Sat Jul 10th at 10:08pm 2004

Im waiting for the price drop myself. And waiting to get some money too. Im tired of my GF4 MX440 really... [addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Sun Jul 11th at 12:10am 2004

I would be too, taking that it has about the same amount of power as a GeForce 2

Never buy an MX card ... they're terrible. (for future notice) [addsig]



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Posted by Forceflow on Sun Jul 11th at 12:15am 2004

? quote:
Im waiting for the price drop myself. And waiting to get some money too. Im tired of my GF4 MX440 really...


Join the club.
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Posted by fraggard on Sun Jul 11th at 3:06am 2004

? posted by Crono
I would be too, taking that it has about the same amount of power as a GeForce 2

I know this is going to lead to another hardware holy war, but... that's rubbish. The GF4 Mx 440 performs quite a bit better than the best GF2.





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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Sun Jul 11th at 3:12am 2004

J-J-J-JIHAD!!!



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Sun Jul 11th at 3:35am 2004

? quote:
I know this is going to lead to another hardware holy war, but... that's rubbish. The GF4 Mx 440 performs quite a bit better than the best GF2.


It's still just a slightly beefed up GF2 no matter how you look at it. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jul 11th at 3:46am 2004

? posted by Kage_Prototype
It's still just a slightly beefed up GF2 no matter how you look at it.

in the end, aren't they all beefed up prior versions? i mean really, just how many ways can you arrange photons?

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Posted by JFry on Sun Jul 11th at 5:33am 2004

Orph want to sell me your old card?



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Posted by $loth on Sun Jul 11th at 6:25am 2004

? posted by Crono
I would be too, taking that it has about the same amount of power as a GeForce 2

Never buy an MX card ... they're terrible. (for future notice)

Not even if you only have a voodoo3 16mb and its selling virutually brand new for ?10 [bout $15]

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Posted by Crono on Sun Jul 11th at 6:26am 2004

Not really, orph.

They find more efficient methods to do the same things So, it really depends on what you mean by "beefed up"

sloth, yes, yes I would, because it would still not be able to play the thing I'd want it to play.

I'm sure the MXs could do better if you just majorly overclocked them and put on a very nice fan (most of them just have heatsyncs).

Or, you could just buy a new card later on. [addsig]



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Posted by fraggard on Sun Jul 11th at 9:16am 2004

? posted by Kage_Prototype
? quote:
I know this is going to lead to another hardware holy war, but... that's rubbish. The GF4 Mx 440 performs quite a bit better than the best GF2.


It's still just a slightly beefed up GF2 no matter how you look at it.

Actually, it's a down-sized GF4 methinks. Either way, a 64MB GF4MX440 is cheaper than it's nearest GF2 competitor (the 64MB GF2 GTS). SO I'd say they're a good deal





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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Jul 11th at 11:09am 2004

? posted by JFry
Orph want to sell me your old card?

possibly, but a 9000 card is dirt cheap now.. my sister-in-law has already claimed it though upon my retiring it..

never would have thought anyone would have wanted it from snarkpit

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Posted by scary_jeff on Mon Jul 12th at 9:18am 2004

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Actually, it's a down-sized GF4 methinks

No such luck. Just like the FX5200 is just a GF4, one of the GF4s was just an overclocked GF3, and the GF4MX is just a crippled-but-higher-clocked GF2. The GF2GTS is easily as good as the GF4MX because afaik it has more pipes and better memory bandwidth, despite a lower core speed.

ATI do the same thing, X600 = 9800, X300 = 9600, the list goes on. It's easier to sell the old generation at a nocked down price than to rework the existing generation with the intention of deliberately making a slower product.




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