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Old 10-18-2004, 06:40 PM
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do not "upgrade" to a 5200. you would lose performance over ur current gefore 4. the lowest card you should upgrade to should be a 5700 ultra or a 9600 pro. The 9600 pro would be a better buy than teh 5700 ultra. I would reccomend waiting for an agp version of the geforce 6600gt or go for a 6800 nu. The overall best buy however is the 6800gt. most performance for the buck and most of them OC to the same clocks as the ultra. If you want the best of the best, the x800xt pe is still on the top.

edit: on the note of overclocking, its not hard to do, there should be something in teh bios that says clock and voltage controls. You can adjust the freq of teh front side bus there. to overclock it, put that up in small incremints (no more than 5 mhz) then run a program call prime 95 for at least 12 hours. make sure the temperature doesnt exceed 60 C and that it completes without having any errors. if it does, then you have a succesful overclock. if not up the voltage a little (no more than 10% at a time) and repeat. i would not go above 1.8 v with that chip. but keep it under 60C, the lower the temp the better. most dont like to even exceed 50 C

there is rumor of a nvida fall refresh coming within 2 months and about 4 months for ati. both are rumored to include process shrinks. remember these are only rumors and not based on any real evidence, so dont get your hopes up.
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