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PaulK
November 1st, 2001, 01:15 PM
My system is as follows.

AMD 1.1 Thunderbird
Abit K7
768 Ram
TNT2 V770 Ultra (32Meg)

I do play alot of online games (Mostly Diablo 2)

Currently my card does not have TV-Out. That is the main reason I am ready to upgrade. Besides the updrade to 64 Meg cannot hurt my gaming :)

I have looked at reviews and seemed to have narrowed it down to two cards. I was origionally planning on the Gforce 2 PRO. But the Gforce 2 Ultra and the Gforce 3 TI seem to be within my max price range.

I seem to get a little confused between the actuall differences between these two cards, therefor I am having trouble picking the best for me.

Please someone transfer the specs in the reviews into simpler terms.
Thank You in advance.
DANIMAL
November 1st, 2001, 05:06 PM
The ASUS V7700. Go to thier site to see the specs.


<a href="http://www.asus.com" target="_blank">ASUS</a>
JungleMan1
November 1st, 2001, 05:14 PM
Get a Geforce2 Ti..it can play any game just fine.
WebHead
November 1st, 2001, 07:11 PM
[quote]Originally posted by PaulK:
<strong>...Currently my card does not have TV-Out...</strong><hr></blockquote>

TV out on video cards always seems to suck anyway, from my experience. But I don't have SVHS to try it with, so I could be wrong here.
Darren Wilson
November 1st, 2001, 07:40 PM
[quote]Originally posted by WebHead:
<strong>

TV out on video cards always seems to suck anyway, from my experience. </strong><hr></blockquote>

You are right, only very low resolution support & I would go for a Radeon DDR with TV Out if you are looking at watching DVD's on teh TV.
Cobra
November 1st, 2001, 09:42 PM
Yep, I had a Voodoo 3500 and my TV supported at most a whopping 800 X 600, with a terrible refresh rate.

I'd prolly go with the GF2 Ultra myself...the RAM is faster, and there's more of it.
Stalemate
November 2nd, 2001, 10:01 PM
[quote]Originally posted by Danimal:
<strong>The ASUS V7700. Go to thier site to see the specs.

<a href="http://www.asus.com" target="_blank">ASUS</a></strong><hr></blockquote>

Asus would be my recommendation also.

I'm using the V7100 GeForce 2 MX400 (64Mb) card at work and it's an excellent performer with Q3 and UT.

Asus has a good grasp on "packaging" the GeForce chips.