Video Card Chipsets

[Pillager]

I will be shortly purchasing one of the following for £25. Advice please on which would be the best, bearing mind that my game-playing will be limited to the odd strategy game and the odd MP game of Quake 3. I assume Windows performance, which is of more importance to me, will be pretty well equal for each of the cards? (Especially as the chosen card will be coupled with a rather lowly PII350....)

5200FX 128MB AGP
Radeon 9200SE 128MB
MX-440 128MB.


Being at work, I have not the time to look to see if a topic similar to this has been covered recently, so if it has I apologise to all the mods (although perhaps not Col) and would appreciate pointers to other relevant threads.

Muchos danke.

 

[col]

Originally posted by Pillager
I apologise to all the mods (although perhaps not Col)

:slay:

I doubt it matters with that processor. get the cheapest.

 

[Ankka]

Yeah, that processor is so old it will just slow down the fastest, go for the cheapest.

 

[damunzy]

Go for one of the first two. They are both newer and better than the Geforce 4 MX.

 

[Pillager]

Hey munzy. My last venture at buying a graphics card fell through in the end....


I bought a Radeon 9200 256mb this evening.

 

[bobgote]

yeah i got one of them, tho it was the 128MB version i guess.

 

[nihilistic]

You should not be getting any of these. I highly doubt your P2 motherboard supports either 4x or 8x AGP, so all three cards will probably be incompatible. Just grab any GeForce 2 off ebay (and the bottleneck will still be your processor).

It seems like you plan on upgrading sometime soon. If you are, heed this advice: do not buy the video card first. It depreciates the fastest. By the time you get the rest of your system, any video card you buy now would have a chance of being ocmpletely worthless.