Gainward Advice

[norphis]

Hi,

Im after some advice, I want a good geforce 3 (doesnt everyone), but im unsure wheither to get a the supposedly best performing one.

Gainward Gold Powerpack

According to several reviews its really good, but someone (a mate) told me that its ****e, any response would be good.

Thanx

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DURON 800MHz
256 MB 133MHz RAM
Maxtor+60 7200rpm 40GB HD
16x Pioneer SLot DVD
Voodoo 5 5500

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[Flash]

The only difference betwween the "Gainward Gold Powerpack" and the cheapest GeForce3 is the DVI conector.

ALL Geforce3`s use exactly the same memory suplied by nVidia and all perform the same.
They also all overclock about the same given proper cooling.

If a DVI conector and/or useless, bundled software is not useful/important to you, get the cheapest Geforce3 you can find!

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FLASH
:-)

[wrathchild_67]

I'm not so sure that's true. I remember when the GF3's first came out, that some were using 4ns ram (as opposed to the default 3.8ns) and some had 3.5ns ram.

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[Flash]

Originally posted by wrathchild_67:
I'm not so sure that's true. I remember when the GF3's first came out, that some were using 4ns ram (as opposed to the default 3.8ns) and some had 3.5ns ram.

That was only some prototypes: pre production stepping.

nVidia sells card vendors a GeForce3 "package" that includes a GPU and memory chips. This insures all geForce3`s have identical memory, a verry wise marketing stratagy.

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FLASH
:-)

[This message has been edited by Flash (edited 09-23-2001).]

[K6-III]

The Golden Sample cards, however, are tested to make sure the OC better. Also, the Gainward Geforce3's have much better IQ (image quality) according to my personal views of the card and those of the Anandtech head-to-head Geforce3 roundup.

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