Simviation Forum - Low Frames at Airports

Reply #30 - May 21^st, 2003 at 5:02pm

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Unfortunately, even with the release of the GfFX and Radeon 9800, the GF4 TI series is still quite expensive. A XFX Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb still costs $369.99CND. That's at Furure Shop, the only GF4Ti4200 they sell. I haven't checked out Best Buy yet. What's a good American site where I can buy a cheap GF4Ti.

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Reply #31 - May 21^st, 2003 at 5:07pm

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I just saw a GeforceFX 5200 128mb 8X for only $99.99 at Best Buy! Will this work on my system? I have an ECS Elitegroup K7S5A mainboard with a 4X AGP pipeline.

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Reply #32 - May 21^st, 2003 at 10:00pm

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I just saw a GeforceFX 5200 128mb 8X for only $99.99 at Best Buy! Will this work on my system? I have an ECS Elitegroup K7S5A mainboard with a 4X AGP pipeline.

Yes it will. Don't worry about it being an AGPx8 card in an AGPx4 slot - won't make any noticeable difference to performance.

At that price I'd be worried though. That's ridiculously cheap for a new GF FX card. Find out what's wrong with it.

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Reply #33 - May 21^st, 2003 at 11:21pm

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It is probably one of those mail in rebate offers, where you pay full price up front, then mail off one or two rebate coupons and maybe get your money back in a year or two.

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Reply #34 - May 22^nd, 2003 at 3:10pm

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Yes it will. Don't worry about it being an AGPx8 card in an AGPx4 slot - won't make any noticeable difference to performance.

At that price I'd be worried though. That's ridiculously cheap for a new GF FX card. Find out what's wrong with it.

Here's the card I was talking about, it may just be on sale. http://www.bestbuy.com/detail.asp?e=11217342&m=488&cat=521&scat=522

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Reply #35 - May 22^nd, 2003 at 3:34pm

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Here's the card I was talking about, it may just be on sale. http://www.bestbuy.com/detail.asp?e=11217342&m=488&cat=521&scat=522

Unbelievable....go get one while you can is all I can say.

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Reply #36 - May 24^th, 2003 at 1:58pm

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Unbelievable....go get one while you can is all I can say.

Unfortunatly, Best Buy has forgotten that it set up a Canadian franchise and don't ship to Canada. I'm going to have to get Best Buy Canada to get it in for me, they'd better not change the price.

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Reply #37 - May 24^th, 2003 at 2:39pm

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I'm thinking of upgrading to a Geforce4 MX440 64DDR. Funny thing is that I'm one of the few who has CFS3 running smoothly. I do have a lot of non-gmax AI airtraffic. I'm going to try removing some and see what that does.

dump the MX and go for a real GF4, the MX is NOT DX8 compatible, and FS likes DX8 cards

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My old computer was a Pentium IV 1.2 524 RAM DDR GF mx200 - very low frame rates
Since I've changed to a Athlon Dual 2.5+ 1024 RAM e Ti4600 128 everything changed from water to wine, so I do think that memo will not be effective in fs's case

AFAIK there is no dual processor support in FS, but you can move all the other stuff to the other processor if you need the power

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just saw a GeforceFX 5200 128mb 8X for only $99.99 at Best Buy! Will this work on my system? I have an ECS Elitegroup K7S5A mainboard with a 4X AGP pipeline.

it's slower than a Gf4ti400, but has DX9 instead of DX8. what do you want, framerate or support for stuu they most likely will implement in 1,5 years when the framerate it gives is unacceptable

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Reply #38 - May 24^th, 2003 at 4:45pm

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dump the MX and go for a real GF4, the MX is NOT DX8 compatible, and FS likes DX8 cards

I run a GF4 MX440 and it's quite happy sitting with DX9, never mind DX8. Obviously it doesn't take advantage of all the features on offer, but it's certainly compatible.

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