Is the card worth the extra $110 bucks at Best Buy?
Would it play Half life 2 better, or would there be no visible difference?

Thanks,
The Rev

On , "Rev Marc" <Rev@Kingdomof Heaven> scribbled:

>Is the card worth the extra $110 bucks at Best Buy?
>Would it play Half life 2 better, or would there be no visible difference?
>
>Thanks,
>The Rev
>

It's faster, but not $110 bucks worth.

If you want a card to play HL2 why not wait 'till Q1 next year and get a
next gen card, or at least the prices of current chips will be down a bit.

"Rev Marc" <Rev@Kingdomof Heaven> wrote in message
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> Is the card worth the extra $110 bucks at Best Buy?
> Would it play Half life 2 better, or would there be no visible difference?
>
> Thanks,
> The Rev
>
>

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:49:36 -0500
"Rev Marc" <Rev@Kingdomof Heaven> wrote:

> Can I overclock the GPU to the Pro level and not damage the card?
> thx

As with all forms of overclocking that's a definite maybe. You're not
likely to do damage by overclocking unless the cooling is very marginal,
but if you have bad luck on the set of components on your particular
board then it may not overclock at all.


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> "Marko Svirèiæ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:bnefnu$s3o$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:42:25 -0500, Rev Marc wrote:
> >
> > > Is the card worth the extra $110 bucks at Best Buy?
> >
> > No.
> >
> > > Would it play Half life 2 better, or would there be no visible
> difference?
> >
> > Yes it would, but only marginanly. When you pay those 110$ more your
> paying
> > to have the fastest graphics card on the market even though it is
> > only slightly faster then the non pro version. Also there are no
> > aditional fetaures, it's the same GPU running faster.
>
>


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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:42:25 -0500, Rev Marc wrote:

> Is the card worth the extra $110 bucks at Best Buy?

No.

> Would it play Half life 2 better, or would there be no visible difference?

Yes it would, but only marginanly. When you pay those 110$ more your paying
to have the fastest graphics card on the market even though it is only
slightly faster then the non pro version. Also there are no aditional
fetaures, it's the same GPU running faster.

Can I overclock the GPU to the Pro level and not damage the card?
thx
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"Marko Svirèiæ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bnefnu$s3o$(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:42:25 -0500, Rev Marc wrote:
>
> > Is the card worth the extra $110 bucks at Best Buy?
>
> No.
>
> > Would it play Half life 2 better, or would there be no visible
difference?
>
> Yes it would, but only marginanly. When you pay those 110$ more your
paying
> to have the fastest graphics card on the market even though it is only
> slightly faster then the non pro version. Also there are no aditional
> fetaures, it's the same GPU running faster.

Rev Marc wrote:
> Can I overclock the GPU to the Pro level and not damage the card?
> thx

I would say defintaly with the core, but the memory is not as likely since
they tend to but 3.0 or 3.3ns on which is good for 333MHz and 300MHz
respectively, instead of 2.86ns which is good for 350MHz. Having said that
many people do manage to overclock the samsung 3.3 to pro speeds,
apparently.

Ben
--
I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String...

Depends on the card

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Rev Marc stood up at show-n-tell, in Dsydnfw3SNlNWAeiRVn-(E-Mail Removed), and
said:

> Can I overclock the GPU to the Pro level and not damage the card?
> thx
> --------------------------------------
> "Marko Svirèiæ" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:bnefnu$s3o$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:42:25 -0500, Rev Marc wrote:
>>
>>> Is the card worth the extra $110 bucks at Best Buy?
>>
>> No.
>>
>>> Would it play Half life 2 better, or would there be no visible
>>> difference?
>>
>> Yes it would, but only marginanly. When you pay those 110$ more your
>> paying to have the fastest graphics card on the market even though
>> it is only slightly faster then the non pro version. Also there are
>> no aditional fetaures, it's the same GPU running faster.

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now, and then, I kick the livin' **** `outta me". - Lit

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 13:49:36 -0500, Rev Marc wrote:

> Can I overclock the GPU to the Pro level and not damage the card?
> thx

Probably yes. But there is no need for it. First of all that graphics card
is very, very powerful, and second the PRO version is only marginaly
faster.