9550 or Ti4200?
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An old PC is lying around here with a Nvidea GeForce 4 Ti4200 graphics card in it. Now i've got a newer PC with a Ati Radeon 9550. The question is: which one is better for gaming purposes (should i swap them)? The 9550 is a lot newer, but a lot cheaper too. The new system has a Athlon64 3200+ and 1024 Ram. And would it be good if i bought a new videocard for 50 to 100 euro's, or won't that be much improvement? Thank you :)
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An old PC is lying around here with a Nvidea GeForce 4 Ti4200 graphics card in it. Now i've got a newer PC with a Ati Radeon 9550. The question is: which one is better for gaming purposes (should i swap them)? The 9550 is a lot newer, but a lot cheaper too. The new system has a Athlon64 3200+ and 1024 Ram. And would it be good if i bought a new videocard for 50 to 100 euro's, or won't that be much improvement? Thank you :)
"..Commit yourself to quality from day one..it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.." -- Mark McCormick
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I know from experience that the 9550 is a DirectX 9.0 card, while the Ti4200 is only DX8.x. I upgraded from a Ti4800SE to a Radeon 9550 so I could try out Vista's Aero Glass interface, which isn't compatible with the GeForce 4 series. In terms of performance, simply try the two cards on some benchmarks such as 3DMark2001[^]. I suggest that version because it only requires DX8.1, not 9.0.
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