Direct comparison of 2 cards...

[Minnis]

Which is better of these two?

1. GeForce 3 Ti 500 128MB
2. GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64 MB

I'm thinking in terms of the difference in perfomance because of the 64MB and 128MB RAM difference of the two! They are both at a similar price at the moment.

Thanks

 

[paparazi]

I posted to this question in General and can confirm that with my rig (XP1800+ on a MSI KT266a chipset motherboard) I had a GF3 Ti500 and was getting around 7,900 points with Mad Onions 3D benchmark 2001SE and now with my 64 mb GF4 4200Ti I am getting 9,300 unclocked. (all default settings)
The GF4 4200Ti is definately a better card,
NO QUESTION!
If you can post a 3D Benchmark result on the Mad Onion website you will have access to average 3D accelerator scores of all the common cards, it's a list so will clearly see where all the cards are ranked from the fastest GF4 4600Ti's down to a lowley 16mb TNT2 M64. Martin Please let members know if there advice has helped any.

 

[paparazi]

Also the question about more ram on the GF3. compared to the GF4.
Extra ram is always desireable but it is only at very high resolutions that there is any performance gain.
Infact as I said in a previous post, of the two versions of GF4 4200Ti (64 & 128mb) the 64mb version is quicker by virtue of it's slightly higher memory clock speed, it is only on the very highest res settings that the 128 version overtakes it's sibling.
So unless you own a 19inch or above monitor and want to set it to the highest res settings you won't notice the differance between a 64 or 128 card,
Now having said all of this if you have the option and the price differance is minimal go 128.
But as far as the GF3 versa's GF4 question, NO CONTEST! even if the GF3 has double the memory.
Things have moved on, and the GF4Ti now rules supreme, if only for a short time! Martin Please let members know if there advice has helped any.

 

[cdogg]

GeForce 3 Ti 500 128MB ??

I don't think one exists. It has "128-bit DDR" but not 128MB. The GeForce3 Ti 500 only comes with 64MB. Read the PDF document below for specs. The 2nd link shows that it is 128-bit. Perhaps you were getting those confused?

http://www.nvidia.com/docs/lo/1050/SUPP/gf3ti_overview.pdf

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=geforce3

With that said, I would with no question go with the GeForce4 Ti 4200, which has double the amount of shaders than a GeForce 3 (better DirectX 8 benchmark scores). ~cdogg
"We park in driveways but drive in parkways?"

 

[rwise2112]

I'm sure you can get a GF3 Ti500 with 128MB, as i've often seen the GF3 Ti200 with 128 MB advertised.

Here's a review

http://www.computerchaos.net/geforce3ti.html

 

[cdogg]

Thanks rwise, I wasn't aware of that. Nevertheless, I would still go with the extra vertex shader that the GF4 provides... ~cdogg
"We park in driveways but drive in parkways?"

 

[rwise2112]

I would look for the GF4 Ti4200 with 128MB. I don't imagine the price would be that much different than the 64MB version.

I agree with cdogg, the GF4 but be my preference of the two you mentioned. The only time the extra RAM would come into play would be a very high resolutions, and large detailed textures.

 

[Guest_imported]

Just got PNY GF4 Ti4600. The card crashes and/or freezes all my game applications at all times. Loaded latest drivers, no result. Updated motherboard drivers, no result.
It also crashes some of my none-game applications.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

My system is as follows:

Asus A7V333 motherboard
AMD 1.7 XP
Samsung PC 2700 512MB memory

 

[gargouille]

Found elsewhere on asus ng:

<<I have a PNY GF4 4600 Ti video card on this board. I had to send the first one back, but the second works great under XP (pro or home). You have to disable the bios anitvirus hardware to install the drivers, and install
direct x 8.1 before you install the Nvidia drivers, or you'll get stop errors. The board is very sensitive to being torqued by cables etc.so be careful with laying cables over it to the drive bays etc. I think the
firewire board/card touched my first PNY and fried the serial port outpouts.>>
FWIW I turn off bios virus protection and leave it off...for just this reason. (the warnings that come with most installs should be more explicit...this is really what they're saying) so rather than setting the bios and then resetting it, I just turn it off...just my habits.
YMMV