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Old 15 February 2003 | 06:52 PM
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I have just seen this on Ebuyer and though that for the few that have come on here recently looking to upgrade their VGA card, but don't want to shell out a small fortune, this sounds very good:

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=45495

Basically, it is one of these:

Leadtek Winfast Geforce4 64MB Ti4200 4xAGP A250 DVi TV-Out OEM

£62.22 inc VAT and Delivery. Completely crush a Geforce 4 MX for peanuts! Faster than all Geforce 3's too.

The only thing going against it is the 64mb of ram, but at this price, who cares?

Just thought someone might appreciate this.

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Old 15 February 2003 | 06:54 PM
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Full details on it available here:

http://www.leadtek.com/graphics/a250le/a250le.htm

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Old 15 February 2003 | 07:04 PM
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LOL, 2 gone already!

Anyone on here?
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Have you seen this one @ £150

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=44589
Old 15 February 2003 | 08:02 PM
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Just remember that thing is just a 4200/4400 tops with 128mb ram and a agp 8x interface.

Slower than a Ti4600 and the AGP8x interface produces no noticeable difference in speed.

Damn Nvidia and their odd naming of products recently......

The amount of people that they have conned with that recently......

A ti4800 (non SE) I believe is a Ti4600 with agp8x interface. Nice naming there yet again.....

Cheers,

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Didn't know that ... thats nasty... must remember to tell someone about that !

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12 gone now and still no replies on here about it. Seriously, noone from on here buying one?
Old 15 February 2003 | 08:04 PM
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Looks like Nvidia are going for the low/medium end big time to preserve revenue for when they release the NV35/40. They seem to have sacrificed the high end to ATI for the time being.
Old 15 February 2003 | 10:22 PM
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cheers mr footlong

i just bought one...

now need to buy the rest of the pc

Old 15 February 2003 | 10:24 PM
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Hehe, happy to help. From 190-odd 10 under 150 in 4 hours. Roll up, roll up, Mr footlong wnats all his friends to get in on the deal
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Right, about the only bit of Tom's Bribeware that I do use, but has lots of pretty pictures for you to look at, hence why I have linked to it here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20021218/index.html

All of the results, bar dungeon siege, which is an oddity for a lot of cards, show why I think the gf4mx4xx series are poor. They are not the same technology as the fully fledged GF4's, but are actually still closely based on the Geforce2 series!

Hope that helps,

Cheers,

Nick

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its about 2x better...

http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic...charts-02.html
Old 16 February 2003 | 01:42 AM
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lol
Old 16 February 2003 | 01:48 AM
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It isn't simply higher clock speed. The core of the actual chip on the mx cards is not as advanced as the core on the 4xxx cards.
Old 16 February 2003 | 01:49 AM
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No wonder computer peps are seen as such anoraks I have going to have to get techinical again !

Ps still haven't blitzed the 5861 ... cannot get a console cable to work !
Old 16 February 2003 | 01:52 AM
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You don't need the console cable at all to reprogram the 5861's.

I have only ever used one once almost 2 years ago. I had to make one when I wiped the ASIC.AIC file by accident and was trying to figure out what was missing! BTW, deleting that was my own fault, nothing to do with the reprogramming procedure.

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The console way seemed a little safer ! I'll just have to get on with it the other way !.

Managed to cool it by hanging at a slight angle !

PS have to agreed with the video card. I am running the 128mb Ti4200 version, just loaded unreal II and it is a smooth as silk
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Top man. Was looking for a bargin card to beef up the PC a bit
Old 16 February 2003 | 11:42 AM
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Right, 44 left as of now.
Old 16 February 2003 | 11:55 AM
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Hmmn, running a 32mb Geforce2 MX right now.

Time to upgrade too methinks...
Old 16 February 2003 | 11:58 AM
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think ill tell the "old man" about this deal.Still hasnt replaced his old GPU since he snapped it in half.........daft git
Old 16 February 2003 | 02:26 PM
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cheers mr 12"

My bro just bought one. Only eleven left now.....
Old 16 February 2003 | 02:52 PM
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All gone.............Ordered 2!
Old 16 February 2003 | 03:07 PM
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Yep, it look like they were just having a stock blowout on that model, as looking at the lead time, I think that was end of line for them.

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I hesitated and now they're all gone - must have been a bargain.
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