[NetNessie]

I live in Australia so buying Hardware normally is a little more expensive, but I found a GeForce4 Ti4800se card for $199, is it worth picking up?

 

[Master G]

Net nessie,
Best thing is to do a bit of research on the card first, generally the geforce4 ti is a pretty good card
Process Technology 0.18 micron
AGP Interface AGP 2x/4x/8x
Core Engine NVIDIA® GeForce4 Ti 4200-8X
Core Clock 275Mhz
Memory Type/Size 128MB EtronTech 3.3ns BGA DDR SDRAM
Memory Clock 550MHz (275MHz DDR)
Memory Bandwidth 8.8GB/s (128-bit)
RAMDAC 350Mhz
Max Resolution 2048 X 1536 X 75Hz
Dual Display Dual VGA, Dual DVI, VGA+DVI
TV-Out Yes

Compared with the Radeon for $185(aussie dollars)
GV-R92VIVO
Chipset Radeon 9200
Core Clock 250
Mem Clock 400
Memory 128
Mem Bus 128
BUS AGP 8X / 4X
Mem Type DDR 8Mx16 4ns
D-SUB Y
TV-OUT Y
DVI Port Y
2-View Y
H/W Monitor N
O/C Tools V-Tuner
GAME 0
Software Power DVD XP
Remark Spec same as GV-R9200 VIVO
H/W monitor R92128VH only
For 199 dollars thats a pretty fair price for a card that will last you a few years at the most......or you could go for the new geforce fx series card...check out this site for a fair price
http://www.scorptec.com.au
:bandit:

 

[Nachtrafe]

Haven't tried one myself, but I looked them up at several retail sites. They run about $150(USDollars), so $199 is a bit high...of course, once you pay shipping...

AFA performance, I relaly dont know. I hardly heard about the 4800, as it was pretty quickly eclipsed by the 5xxx series.

Erm...I guess what I'm saying overall is...I really dont know for sure, but, IMO, If you're happy with your current card, stick with it. If you can afford the new one and think that it will improve things(and that you wont be able to afford upgrading to the 5xxx series any time soon), then go for it.

 

[x5dr]

the Ti4800 is suppose to be a good card...between the 4200 and 4600. It was much cheaper than the Ti4600 but that was when it first came out...you might find the better 4600 for about the same price these days.