{rant}

I've bought NVidia since the days of the Riva128, TNT, GeForce, but in light of the ridiculous cost of the GeForce 3, I'm sad to say I'm ditching them as the whole pricing thing has got out of hand...

I've gone for something thats on a par with the GeForce2 GTS and well ahead of the GeForce2 MX and Radeon DDR all for £85!

Yes folks, its the Kyro II 64MB AGP (aka Hercules Prophet 4500)



Only needs cheaper SDR Ram as it doesn't hog bandwidth like a GeForce. Its not as fast as a GeForce3 but thats ok.

{/rant}


[This message has been edited by DazV (edited 15 June 2001).]

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I agree, GeForce have gone waay too far with the pricing policies. I was one of the idiots that paid over £300.00 for a 64MB GeForce 2 card when it came out. I see the same thing for under £100 now

Cem

 

Footlong,

Yeah, I've just upgraded my system too. I'm really happy with the savings this time around:

512MB PC2100 DDR Ram £83
Kryo Prophet4500 £85 (see above)
MSI Board (AMD 761,266FSB) £110
AMD 1.33GHz (266FSB) £130

All dirt cheap really when compared to my last upgrade.

Totally happy with moving over to Athlon from Pentium III

I've got high bandwidth RAM for peanuts and a Graphics card for peanuts - compared to £200 I payed for my GeForce Pro DDR last year.

-DV

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I just got my Elsa Gladiac 920 GF3 yesterday@£297. Yes, I did have a problem with spending that much on a card, but I got £100 back on my GF2 GTS from a freind. Wouldn't spend that much on a card normally, but I just upgraded my system again.....
Not bragging at all but some info for you:

Abit KT7A-Raid Motherboard
AMD Athlon 1Ghz (AXIA@1.4Ghz,10.5x133,1.75V)
768MB CAS2 RAM
2x20Gb IBM Deskstar HD a la RAID
Elsa Gladiac 920 Geforce3 Graphics Card
Creative SbLive/FPS2000 Digi speakers
12x8x32 CDwriter
40xCDROM

And all so I can get another 10fps in quake

Nick.

P.S I miss 3DFX.


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