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You can also get an FX5900 for the same price these days, it is much better
than the FX5700. I recently tried a FX5700 Ultra and a FX5900 (Standard) and the FX5900 was much better. Have you considered the ATI Radeon 9600 series ? "Mike Spezzano" wrote in message ... £150 from dabs "NDF" wrote in message ... "Mike Spezzano" wrote in message ... Ok thanks. I checked all over but nothing. Lets say its 300w. Will that be enough? Thanks "NDF" wrote in message ... "Mike Spezzano" wrote in message ... Ok up until 30minutes ago I was prepared to buy a Gainward Geforce FX5700 Ultra 128mb. I notice that Gainward suggest a PSU of 300w. I just opened up my case to check my PSU and also that I have space for this rather large card. Space isn't a problem however my PSU shows no model name, number, power rating, nothing. I bought this PC early 2002 from Simply Computers. Athlon XP1600+ Geforce2 Ti 64mb 2 sticks of 256mb pc2100 RAM 40gb HD Creative Live 5.1 soundcard DVD Rom CD-RW External USB port with its own mains power supply MSI KT7 6380 Pro2 Motherboard Win XP Home At the mo everything runs fine, no probs whatsoever. I know the FX5700 needs its own power supply. Will I have power problems when I put this new card in to replace the g2 Ti? Anyone know the watts this card uses? Many many thanks Mike All PSUs will have their specifications on a label somewhere on their outer casing, iff you can't see it, it could be on the other side and the easiest way to check is to phyisically remove it. Very unusual for a PSU not to have it's specs printed on it. 300W should be enough, but if you encounter problems then you will now either way. How much you paying for the FX5700 ? |
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Have had Nvidia from day one of my PC life and they have served me well so
gonna stick to what I know. Have heard there are driver issues with ATI. Have not considered the 5900 to be honest as I have read that the fans are quite noisy. I might consider it now though depends what power requirements are for it though think it might need a 350w power supply Thanks though - anyone else have any comments? "NDF" wrote in message ... You can also get an FX5900 for the same price these days, it is much better than the FX5700. I recently tried a FX5700 Ultra and a FX5900 (Standard) and the FX5900 was much better. Have you considered the ATI Radeon 9600 series ? "Mike Spezzano" wrote in message ... £150 from dabs "NDF" wrote in message ... "Mike Spezzano" wrote in message ... Ok thanks. I checked all over but nothing. Lets say its 300w. Will that be enough? Thanks "NDF" wrote in message ... "Mike Spezzano" wrote in message ... Ok up until 30minutes ago I was prepared to buy a Gainward Geforce FX5700 Ultra 128mb. I notice that Gainward suggest a PSU of 300w. I just opened up my case to check my PSU and also that I have space for this rather large card. Space isn't a problem however my PSU shows no model name, number, power rating, nothing. I bought this PC early 2002 from Simply Computers. Athlon XP1600+ Geforce2 Ti 64mb 2 sticks of 256mb pc2100 RAM 40gb HD Creative Live 5.1 soundcard DVD Rom CD-RW External USB port with its own mains power supply MSI KT7 6380 Pro2 Motherboard Win XP Home At the mo everything runs fine, no probs whatsoever. I know the FX5700 needs its own power supply. Will I have power problems when I put this new card in to replace the g2 Ti? Anyone know the watts this card uses? Many many thanks Mike All PSUs will have their specifications on a label somewhere on their outer casing, iff you can't see it, it could be on the other side and the easiest way to check is to phyisically remove it. Very unusual for a PSU not to have it's specs printed on it. 300W should be enough, but if you encounter problems then you will now either way. How much you paying for the FX5700 ? |
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Not sure about the same price gainward 5900ultra is £277 at dabs - think
i'll stick with 5700 "Mike Spezzano" wrote in message ... Have had Nvidia from day one of my PC life and they have served me well so gonna stick to what I know. Have heard there are driver issues with ATI. Have not considered the 5900 to be honest as I have read that the fans are quite noisy. I might consider it now though depends what power requirements are for it though think it might need a 350w power supply Thanks though - anyone else have any comments? "NDF" wrote in message ... You can also get an FX5900 for the same price these days, it is much better than the FX5700. I recently tried a FX5700 Ultra and a FX5900 (Standard) and the FX5900 was much better. Have you considered the ATI Radeon 9600 series ? "Mike Spezzano" wrote in message ... £150 from dabs "NDF" wrote in message ... "Mike Spezzano" wrote in message ... Ok thanks. I checked all over but nothing. Lets say its 300w. Will that be enough? Thanks "NDF" wrote in message ... "Mike Spezzano" wrote in message ... Ok up until 30minutes ago I was prepared to buy a Gainward Geforce FX5700 Ultra 128mb. I notice that Gainward suggest a PSU of 300w. I just opened up my case to check my PSU and also that I have space for this rather large card. Space isn't a problem however my PSU shows no model name, number, power rating, nothing. I bought this PC early 2002 from Simply Computers. Athlon XP1600+ Geforce2 Ti 64mb 2 sticks of 256mb pc2100 RAM 40gb HD Creative Live 5.1 soundcard DVD Rom CD-RW External USB port with its own mains power supply MSI KT7 6380 Pro2 Motherboard Win XP Home At the mo everything runs fine, no probs whatsoever. I know the FX5700 needs its own power supply. Will I have power problems when I put this new card in to replace the g2 Ti? Anyone know the watts this card uses? Many many thanks Mike All PSUs will have their specifications on a label somewhere on their outer casing, iff you can't see it, it could be on the other side and the easiest way to check is to phyisically remove it. Very unusual for a PSU not to have it's specs printed on it. 300W should be enough, but if you encounter problems then you will now either way. How much you paying for the FX5700 ? |
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On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 04:44:16 GMT (John Lewis) meeped :
Why get the 5700. I read that you can get the more powerful 5900 (either XT version) or regular 5900 for only $30.00 more or so. Yes get a Gigabyte FX2900XT great card.. Isn't that the cheesy one that's the same as the SE version --- 700MHz memory instead of 850MHz for the regular FX5900 non-Ultra ? Newegg had the eVGA FX5900/128 400GPU/850Mem on sale today 01/06/04 for one day @$220, free Fedex shipping. I tried to post this info to the NG, but my stupid ISPs server apparently failed to upload any of my postings. John Lewis the poster is in England. (he mentioned Dabs) therefore may I mention the great and strangely low priced Pixelview 5900 non ultra from www.Microdirect.co.uk It's 135 quid plus 8 quid postage and I have it ramped to about 435/780 ( stock is 400/700 ) Approx 197 FPS on the wings of fury test on my P4 3ghz |
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 18:34:51 -0000, "Mike Spezzano"
wrote: Have had Nvidia from day one of my PC life and they have served me well so gonna stick to what I know. Have heard there are driver issues with ATI. Perhaps you should look at the posts here... theres a bunch of driver issues here as well. I have an ATi9800Pro in my Main PC, my old Ti4200 when to my 2nd PC. I haven't had any problems. I play Call of Duty in 1600x1200x32 in FULL MAX details... no slow down. But go with the 5900 for about $200. Have not considered the 5900 to be honest as I have read that the fans are quite noisy. I might consider it now though depends what power requirements are for it though think it might need a 350w power supply 5900? Depends... 5800 - ugh, of course. The MSI 5900, which a friend has - IS SILENT!! 28db...! My Ti4200 and GF3 were not as quiet as the MSI 5900! A good 300watt PSU will be okay - again, GOOD brand - easier with AMD motheboards which don't depend on the 12volt rails as much as the P4. 350~400watt (GOOD - $50~75) PSUs will work fine. -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
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