32 or 64 mb geforce 2 gts?

yankinlk · 26-06-2001 10:39am #1

is there a big difference in performance? i am thinking of getting geforce 2 gts 32mb or 64mb...

_CreeD_ · 26-06-2001 3:36pm

Hmm, just want to qualify it a little (from my experience obviously). The extra mem is useless in MOST cases. But if you have a game with very high res textures and no texture-compression the 64mb card is faster.
Eg. Sacrfice, you can only use the highest quality textures on a 64mb card.

Also while 1600x1200 might sound like overkill (But it is pretty...), remember it's the equivalent of only 800x600 at 2xFsaa. But I suppose by the time you're heading towards the horsepower to run that quickly enough you won't have a choice on mem size (eg. Pro and Ultra)

yankinlk · 26-06-2001 10:58pm

how does 79 dollars for this card sound? (new)

Gerry · 26-06-2001 11:04pm

There is no performance difference until a stupidly high res like 1600 * 1200, so its not worth paying for the extra 32 megs.

Kali · 26-06-2001 11:05pm

79 for the gts? sounds bloody excellent to me.

yankinlk · 26-06-2001 11:10pm

nice one. u da man gerry.

Gerry · 27-06-2001 8:06am

I wasn't aware that there was a noticeable loss of quality with texture compression. Also, the resolution and detail you run games with is mainly dictated by the core and memory speed. FSAA is fairly pointless, as it completely kills fps in most games, on a gts. $79 sounds like an excellent price, where is that?

yankinlk · 27-06-2001 8:36am

http://www.ubid.com US auction site, well worth checking out.

the catch:
i had to give an american address...my folks place. Im gonna either pick them up later this summer or have them sent over. Before I go back Ill post here if anyones interested in buying something...like maybe geforce 3's?

Kix · 27-06-2001 9:43am

Sweeeet.....

I can feel my credit card starting to jiggle in my back pocket.

"DOWN BOY!"

_CreeD_ · 27-06-2001 12:17pm

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Gerry:
FSAA is fairly pointless, as it completely kills fps in most games, on a gts. </font>

Not on older games (and I play TFC mainly, so I'm presuming all those CS folks are in the same boat). I used to run it (FSAAx2) on my Geforce-1 DDR and the FPS at 1024x768@32 hovered between ~55 and 72 (max_fps). With a GTS pro I get ~140 fps, same settings.

It's one of those things that once you get used to it you'll hate playing without it.

[This message has been edited by _CreeD_ (edited 27-06-2001).]

32 or 64 mb geforce 2 gts?

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