nVidia GForce-4 TI 4200 vidcard

[Myles Green]

Hi Matt,
I am using a couple of different video cards, both powered by nVidia
chipsets, one is by H.I.S. and the other by eVGA - they both work very
nicely with the nVidia drivers. I've also used (in the past) an AOpen
video card that, IIRC, used the Riva TnT2 M64 chipset and had zero
problems - it just worked, right out of the box.

So, IMHO, go for it, you'll be glad you did.

HTH,
Myles

On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 14:53, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> I am looking at a new Home/Work/Gamer system.  I want to be able to run
> Quake3Arena in 3D-GL mode and although there are warnings for the X-GL drivers,
> it is clear that the cards to get are either ATI Radeon or the nVidia GF4
> chipset.  It appears that unlike the ATI, the GF chips have found their way
> into ALL KINDS of cards, all named "G-Force" cards...  I'm wondering if I
> should be leery of that?  I have ALSO heard on this list that the nVidia cards
> are the only way to go.  I'm looking at buying an aopen system from myaopen.com
> (Which is run from a Yahoo Store, don't poke fun).  The GF4TI2400 card is
> labeled AOpen (check it out at 
> http://www.aopen.com/products/vga/gf4ti4200-dvc128.htm ).  I only have a
> limited budget to work with, and the AOpen systems seem to allow me to put
> together my next-gen machine for just shy of my $1,000 limit.  Here are the
> specs (yes, I've skimped on the kb/mouse/fax/modem/etc...  for what's
> important)
> 
>  STEP01: (+68.00) AOpen H600A-U 300W w/Front USB Mid Tower Case
>  STEP02: (+179.00) ** AOpen AX4SG Max MB **, Intel 865G/ 800MHz/ DDR400/
> USB2.0/LAN/ 1394
>  STEP03: (+205.60) ** Intel P4 2.66G ** 512k/533MHz Retail Box CPU
>  STEP04: (+124.00) 1GB (512MB X 2) DDR333 Memory
>  STEP05: (+ 143.00 ) -- WD 120GB -- 7200RPM ATA100 8MB (WD1200JB)
>  STEP07: (+49.00) AOpen CRW5224 52X24X52 CDRW DRIVE
>  STEP08: (+39.00) AOpen DVD-1648 16X48 IDE DVD-ROM
>  STEP09: (+166.00) AOPEN GF4TI4200 8X-DVC128 128MB W/ DVI,CAPTURE,TV
>  STEP17: No Assembly and Testing Fee
> 
> Price:  $973.60 plus shipping.
> 
> Before spending the wad, I thought I'd run it by you all.  I've come to respect
> your experience and have found in doing so that I avoid a lot of putfalls that
> Joe User seems to always hit.
> 
> Thanks in advance and for the past.
> 
> Matt
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Myles Green <myles-green at shaw.ca>