www.dabs.com/value have a geforce3 (no name....are the producing it themselves?) for £260, thats £50 cheaper than the cheapest named card i have found....
now the web site has no pics....but, i have a copy of PC World magazine in which they advertise, and they have a picture of the card.....but it has NO FANS NOR HEATSINKS on the CPU nor MEMORY!!!!! is this safe?
could it be an underclocked card?
i have seen a couple of manufacturers not using heatsinks on the memory, but this has neither core nor memory HSF!!!!!
£263 is the cheapest I've seen for a new GF3, but not by £50! dabs themselves have a Creative card for £282, Watford Electronics have a Leadtek card for £264 and a 3D Morpheus Power for £276. I don't know what the individual specs are, your main concern is probably RAM speed and this will be hard to find out. For the extra £2 I'd play it safe and get the Leadtek card if funds are tight, I seem to remember it reviewed pretty well too. If money is really an issue though, maybe you should wait for a Ti 200 card when they come out, dabs have a Creative one listed at £173 but no ETA.
I'm sure others can find even better deals, I just wanted to let you know that the dabs own price wasn't too hot after all (or maybe it is if it really doesn't have any heatsinks ).
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It could be the GeForce3 Ti 200. It should be a bit cheaper than that, but with its lower clock rate a simple heatsink is all most use. I think this card would be a good overclocker. Just add a fan and some ram sinks and clock away. You should be able to get near the regular GeForce3 clock/memory speeds for much cheaper.
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thanks for the replies....especially the cheap quotes for named cards....
it's not just the lack of fans that is wierd on the picture of this card, but no heatsinks either....
I agree with the consensus in this thread that it is just a tech shot showing it "naked". As the Asus GF3 I've got would run over 54°C with the standard Heatsink fan unit, (under gaming loads), then I think GPU meltdown would occur without a heatsink and major instabilities with a heatsink but no fan.
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