Low Frames at Airports

[Iroquois]

Unfortunately, even with the release of the GfFX and Radeon 9800, the GF4 TI series is still quite expensive. A XFX Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb still costs $369.99CND. That's at Furure Shop, the only GF4Ti4200 they sell. I haven't checked out Best Buy yet. What's a good American site where I can buy a cheap GF4Ti.  

[Iroquois]

I just saw a GeforceFX 5200 128mb 8X for only $99.99 at Best Buy! Will this work on my system? I have an ECS Elitegroup K7S5A mainboard with a 4X AGP pipeline.

[FSTipster]

I just saw a GeforceFX 5200 128mb 8X for only $99.99 at Best Buy! Will this work on my system? I have an ECS Elitegroup K7S5A mainboard with a 4X AGP pipeline.

Yes it will. Don't worry about it being an AGPx8 card in an AGPx4 slot - won't make any noticeable difference to performance.

At that price I'd be worried though. That's ridiculously cheap for a new GF FX card. Find out what's wrong with it.

[darkhorse]

 It is probably one of those mail in rebate offers, where you pay full price up front, then mail off one or two rebate coupons and maybe get your money back in a year or two.

[Iroquois]

Yes it will. Don't worry about it being an AGPx8 card in an AGPx4 slot - won't make any noticeable difference to performance.

At that price I'd be worried though. That's ridiculously cheap for a new GF FX card. Find out what's wrong with it.

Here's the card I was talking about, it may just be on sale. http://www.bestbuy.com/detail.asp?e=112 ... 1&scat=522

[FSTipster]

Here's the card I was talking about, it may just be on sale. http://www.bestbuy.com/detail.asp?e=112 ... 1&scat=522

Unbelievable....go get one while you can is all I can say.

[Iroquois]

Unbelievable....go get one while you can is all I can say.

Unfortunatly, Best Buy has forgotten that it set up a Canadian franchise and don't ship to Canada. I'm going to have to get Best Buy Canada to get it in for me, they'd better not change the price.

[Ivan]

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AMD Duron 950
Geforce2 MX400 64mb
512MB PC-133 Ram
I'm thinking of upgrading to a Geforce4 MX440 64DDR. Funny thing is that I'm one of the few who has CFS3 running smoothly. I do have a lot of non-gmax AI airtraffic. I'm going to try removing some and see what that does.

[FSTipster]

dump the MX and go for a real GF4, the MX is NOT DX8 compatible, and FS likes DX8 cards

I run a GF4 MX440 and it's quite happy sitting with DX9, never mind DX8. Obviously it doesn't take advantage of all the features on offer, but it's certainly compatible.