Building a LOW Budget gaming system

[RamonGTP]

A 9100 will not run even close to a 4200... I gaurantee you that the 4200 will stomp all over the 9100... All the reviews i've seen has it behind the 4200 by ATLEAST 15-20 fps and as high as 50+ fps depending on whats being run on it.

[John Prophet]

officemax has 256 ddr for like $10 after rebates every other week it seems.

JP

[shawshank62]

if i were you, try to look for ram at bb, circuit city, staples, etc. you can get some good deals.

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A 9100 will not run even close to a 4200... I gaurantee you that the 4200 will stomp all over the 9100... All the reviews i've seen has it behind the 4200 by ATLEAST 15-20 fps and as high as 50+ fps depending on whats being run on it.

The ti4200 is also 35-45 bucks more. i think that 9100 is an excellent budget card, and while not as good as a ti4200, its not half bad for 75 bucks.

[RamonGTP]

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Originally posted by shawshank62
if i were you, try to look for ram at bb, circuit city, staples, etc. you can get some good deals.



The ti4200 is also 35-45 bucks more. i think that 9100 is an excellent budget card, and while not as good as a ti4200, its not half bad for 75 bucks.

Yes, that may be true... But I was refferring to the comment that said it will perform close Ti4200 levels... I may be wrong, and the next set of drivers may do just that, but a 15-50 fps deficit is a lot to make up for and i'm willing to bet that the drivers will be tuned more towards the 9800 cards rather than the lower end ones like the 9100.

[thePh@r@oh]

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Originally posted by Juan Sanchez
Hell my Honda and I have eaten many a Mustang GT this past summer, ah the memories

http://www.techimo.com/photo/data/50...Civic.jpg?4920

that has absolutely nothing to do with this topic.

[Juan Sanchez]

Well neither do these

"Lateralus
Once I asked that question and one refered to is much like these rice rocket spunked up cars on the road these days..
I look at this way.. Why pay 20,000 for a toyota and put 10 or 20 more thousand beefing it up.. Hell, go ahead and get you a corvette or a mustang 5.0 if you really wanna go fast.. and its less work. Anyways, I'm rambling... sorry

RamonGTP
Oh, almost forgot... Mustangs are slow... I'll put my money on a Toyota Supra TT against a 5.slow anyday. I'll also bet you I can get a Supra into the 11s a whole lot easier than you can get that stang there."

Yeh, my "rice rocket" spunked up car consistanly beats Stangs and F-Bodies (no vettes yet ) and it didn't cost me $20,000 to do it either the car was $5,000-the engine was $1,200-and the various engine mods came out to about $1,500. So for $7,700 I have a car that kills a 2003 Mustang GT wich retails for about 3 times that. Oh, and Honda and especially Toyotas are MUCH (as in a billion times) more reliable. I'm basically agreeing with Ramon here.

[samwichse]

As everyone's said, go with a 4200 or an ATI card, the fx5200 is the low end DX9 part.

The GeForce FX 5900 has enough trouble running DX9 as it is, the 5200, while it technically has the ability to do DX9, doesn't actually have enough juice to run a game at a decent framerate with it anyway.

FX5200: DX9 capable, but not usable
TI4200: Not DX9 capable, but faster otherwise, and who cares since the 5200's not usable in DX9 anyway.

Sam

[thePh@r@oh]

why isnt the 5200 usable? you dont think it could OC?? some peoples ideas of what a decent framrate is is ludacris. I play jedi academy on a GF2MX400 and it runs at arround 20 FPS or so and its smooth enough to keep me happy. alot of people arround these parts arent happy if it cant run at the highest possible settings at 100+ FPS.

[Scott Tiger]

Because any game new enough to take advantage of DX9 is going to require more gpu power than the 5200 can muster at a decent resolution.

[thePh@r@oh]

and what is a decent resolution. i play most of my games at 800X600