ghost gamer 0 Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 ...what do you all think of this card?....is this a good value?...its from Computer Geeks Discount Outlet...currently its out of stock.....this card would be running on a system based on an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe board and a 2.8 gig/800 fsb/hyperthreading processor.... nVidia GeForce4 FX 5600 AGP Video Card -$167.95 400 MHz RAMDACs 256-bit graphics cord 12.8 GB/second memory bandwidth 1.6 billion texels/second 100-million vertices per second 256 MB DDR RAM CineFX engine High-precision graphics Intellisample technology nView Multi-display Technology 8x AGP interface Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) Unified Driver Architecture (UDA) DVI support Integrated TV encoder Integrated full hardware MPEG-2 decoder New 64-phase Video Scaler Architected for Cg 15-pin standard VGA connector 24-pin DVI connector Supported Resolutions: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 1600 x 1200 1900 x 1440 2048 x 1536 Retail Package Includes: nVidia GeForce4 FX 5600 AGP video card User's Guide S-video cable Driver CD InterVideo WinDVD on CD Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dannik 43 Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 What's the currency in? USD? AUD? CAD? " Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ghost gamer 0 Posted August 14, 2003 Author Share Posted August 14, 2003 ...good point. ..U.S. dollars..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dannik 43 Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 In that case, yes, it is a good deal. It's not great though. Give NewEgg.com a try. I've filtered out a list of GF FX 5600's (although I didn't remove the cards with only 128 megs of RAM, sorry), and the same tech you are looking at start at $140USD, with the first major brand name card being a Gainward for $154.99 Still, the price you quoted is very reasonable. Enjoy the new card. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ghost gamer 0 Posted August 14, 2003 Author Share Posted August 14, 2003 ...thanks...I'll check it out.....gotta get as much bang for the buck as I can!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crimson 0 Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 (edited) I wouldnt get a regular FX 5600 whether it be 128MB or 256MB. If you desperately want an FX, get the 5600 Ultra. Most benchmarks I've seen though, the Radeon 9500 Pro beats all FX cards except the 5800 and 5900's. Edited August 14, 2003 by Crimson Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 And I would pass on the Gainward. I and alot of folks I know have had a boatload of trouble with the Gainward products. They are very propietary. Very propietary with having to use their drivers and such. They have been nothing but a Pain in the butt for me and alot of friends and clients. This is just an opinion, and my observtions about this Manufacturer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
supasniper 0 Posted August 14, 2003 Share Posted August 14, 2003 And I would pass on the Gainward. I and alot of folks I know have had a boatload of trouble with the Gainward products. This is just from personal experience I'm running Gainwards in both my puters and haven't had any probs using nVidia's drivers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
snakebite1967 0 Posted August 15, 2003 Share Posted August 15, 2003 weve have several friends that have had no end of issues with those cards specificly when combined with xp, plus for the last year Gainward had quite a few card RMA's on their hands after cutting corners on production costs IE 4200 4400 and 4600 cards, but from the latest reviews ive seen the Gainward fx line up is about as close to a reference card as you can get they no longer have a red pcb or HSF it seems tho Gainward is taking it slow this time and releasing standard video cards with no bells and whistles Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ghost gamer 0 Posted August 15, 2003 Author Share Posted August 15, 2003 ...thanks everyone for the info.....where I get lost is the boat load of manufacturers ......Albatross...PNY....Chaintech...XFX....Gainward...ect...ect...ect. ....I know I want Nvidia chipset card and I know the performance specs to look at...aside from Gainward, is there a big difference in manufacturers?.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted August 15, 2003 Share Posted August 15, 2003 PNY and Vision Tech are both good. So is MSI, just dont use the bundled GR that comes with it. Asus is also good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
snakebite1967 0 Posted August 15, 2003 Share Posted August 15, 2003 personaly the only one ill buy is an MSI after having chaintech and pny cards my last 5 have all been MSI and totaly reliable plus MSI is known for giving the most goodies away with a video card Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crimson 0 Posted August 16, 2003 Share Posted August 16, 2003 VisionTek makes ATi cards now. I have experiance with LeadTek, ASUS and MSI. All are top quality cards. The LeadTek and MSI cards are both Ti4400's, and I cant tell the difference in quality between the two. The ASUS is a Ti4200 and I've overclocked it. It runs almost as smoothly as the Ti4400's. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted August 16, 2003 Share Posted August 16, 2003 Those are all good brands and great cards. I know Vision Tek turned traitor on us and went with the ATI chipset. B*stards!! Anyway, they may still have the Nvidia's left in stock and if you find one, they are good cards from a good brand. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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