NVidia Graphics Card Question...How is it?

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ImagoX

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Hello all...

I'm building a system, and 'm leaning towards the 32meg NVidia 256 AGP card. Is anyone running this card with U:T, and if so, how does it preform? Any issues you have seen? I'm pretty much sold on the card for all my other PC computing uses, but since U:T is taking up so much of my time (I know, I be a sad, pathetic man, but I DO have a girlfriend...HONEST!!), I thought I'd see if I was in for any pain in the future.

Thanks a million in advance for any advice!

-ImagoX

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CHRYSt

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Get the GeForce. You won't be sorry. I've had mine a while. It's beautiful.
As for the girlfriend, what the hell are you doing stoking and maintaining a relationship when there's UT to play? Prioritize, man! Women come and go, but UT is life. Without UT I'd be a respectable business man with a wife, kids, and my own house. Thanks to UT, I'm a crack head video game junkie who overclocks his PC so high, I use it for a space heater. Thank god for UT!

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What CPU are you running?

As long as it's a Celeron 500 or better, you should be fine. The Celeron 366 o/c@533Mhz (58fps) vs Athlon 750 (64fps) scored almost identical frame rates with the GeForce cards in Quake3. Pretty damn impressive stuff.

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you mentioned the Q word....?.....

BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!

*THWACK*

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Hey CHRYST, can I ask you to do me a favor??
If so will you do a timedemo on the city intro run it 3 times and let me know your scores. I`m thinking about upgrading my TnT ultra to a geforce and this would help alot.
system specs.
PIII 500
256 ram
tnt2 ultra
on the city demo I get 52fps un cooked turn up the heat alittle and I get 56fps..

Thanks for your help in advance......

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ImagoX

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I'll be putting the card on a PIII 800 w/ 128meg RAM. Has anyone using the NVidia had any driver issues? Also, do you think I'd be using the Direct3D video option or Glide?

Thanks for all the great info!

-ImagoX
 

Quitch

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Well I've run a Nvida 32MB Geforce 256 on a PIII 750 with 256MB SDRAM, 1024x768, max detail settings, 15 bots, no slow down.

This is both UT and Q3.

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