64MB GeForce 3 Ti500 @ P800.00

[grss1982]

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Just a quick Q. Did I get my money's worth with this used card? I've read reviews about it, but there all 5 years old or even older!!!!

Just wondering if anybody has one of this babies. Also according to my browsing in google back in the day this card was the top dog until the GF4 Ti4XXX Series came along.

Anyways I'm just gonna play Counter Strike 1.5 and Counter Strike: Source on it.


Thanks for any comments.

P.S. For those interested I bought this today at Max Savers (a surplus shop) they categorized their cards according to the how much MB it had regardless of the card's architecture.

Ex.

A.> 64MB Cards = P800.00 (They also Currently have a 64MB Radeon 8500LE, a 64MB Radeon 9000 PRO, a 64MB Geforce FX 5200 (64-bit) this were the early versions.

B.> 128MB Cards = P950.00 (I'll be dropping by Max Savers regularly now. The possibility of them selling a a Geforce Ti4XXX series is making my mouth water. )

[Der FüHRER]

waaa karon pa nigawas, been looking for something like this a few months ago. i ended up buying a brand new radeon 9550 (fully compatible w/ 4x agp)

[akera]

OT: where's max savers situated?

[kazki]

OT: where's max savers situated?

naa sa eskina sa bag-ong daan og kanang da'an padng sa karaan na sacred heart... muo na xa..naa building dha na orange, murag naa dha.

[vladmire]

OT: where's max savers situated?

mj cuenco

[erwinp]

asklang ko bro if agp ang slot sa ila video card bro?? naa sila pcie didto sa max savers bro nga surplus??

[grss1982]

Bad News.

I returned the ti500 back to the surplus shop I bought it from. It seems the card does'nt like my EPOX 8RDA+ setup. When I first plugged it in, Windows' Hardware Detection keeps on re-detecting it. It came to a point that there were 10 instances of the Geforce 3 Ti500 in under device manager and all of a sudden Windows crashes.

Also even under Linux (DSL 2.4), when i use the "lspci" command 8 or more NV20s (GF3 Ti500) VGA controllers are identified, and on top of that the card really heats up especially the backside.

The surplus store had only 3 other 64mb cards left, an 64MB ASUS GF2 MX-400, a 64MB Radeon 9000 Pro, and an 64MB (64-bit) Gigabyte FX5200.

I choose the 9000 Pro and I was shocked to learn though that even though this card does not outperform an Ti500, it can go head to head with the fastest video card (256MB GF FX5500) I won to date. Under 3dmark2001se FX5500 is only 7700+ points while the Radeon 9000 PRO is 7900+ points. WOW!!!


@erwinp: No wala sila surplus PCI-E.

BTW, if anybody is interested I've been able to play CS: Source at 640x480 @ Dxlevel 81 (DirectX 8.1) with the "recommended settings." It was playable, lag was only noticeable in the de_aztec map (probably the water effects). Plus the built-in video stress test of CS:S reported a 60 fps average for the Radeon 9000 Pro.