nVidia GForce-4 TI 4200 vidcard

[David aikema]

Well, I have an Asus GForce 4 Ti 4200 card and it's been working just 
fine.

David Aikema

On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 01:53  PM, 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
>
> -- 
> Matthew Carpenter
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