Many Questions For The nVidia GeForce4 TI 4600!


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I just started working at a chinese restaraunt, #1 Wok. I work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I work from 5PM to 8PM and make $6.00 an hour. It kinda sucks since no one can barely speak english. But I have a job and I am making money. I also get $20.00 every 2 weeks from my parents for cutting the grass. I have $24.00 right now and by Wednesday I'll have $96.00. Im on my way to getting a brand new nVidia GeForce4 TI 4600 video card for my computer. The cards that I'm looking at come out to around $299.99. But before I do, I have many questions.

1) Should I get the nVidia GeForce4 TI 4600 right now or wait for the Matrox Parhelia video card? This will be the fastest graphics when it comes out June 30, 2002. But is it worth the $399.99? Or should I wait for the next Nvidia card. I don't want the fastest card. I just don't want to get a fast graphics card when I could have waited a week and gotten an even faster graphics card for the same price.

2) Do I have an AGP slot on my motherboard? I mean I already have an 32MB SDRAM nVidia GeForce2 MX200 so that must mean I have an AGP slot that can handle 4x AGP right?

3) What is the best brand for the nVidia GeForce4 TI 4600? Should I get Apollo, Chaintech, House Brand, Generic, PowerColor, eVGA, Abit, PNY, MSI, AsusTek, Leadtek, AsusTek, Gainward or Vision Tek? I heard some brands use better quality stuff when making their cards.

4) I'm thinking of buying my nVidia GeForce4 TI 4600 off www.pricewatch.com. Is that the best website to get a bargain video card at? And If I buy it there is there anything I should know? Like what happens if it gets damaged in the mail or if I pay for it with my credit card and they never send anything or If I get the wrong graphics card?

5) Will my system bottleneck my new graphics card? I have a 1.8GHz Pentium 4 with 512MB DDR SDRAM. Should I go out and get a 2.53GHz Pentium 4 533MHz FSB w/ 512KB Cache with 1GB RDRAM PC-1066? Or is what I have sufficent?

6) What games should I buy to test my brand new nVidia GeForce4 TI 4600 video card? I want to see how far nVidia's card can go.

Sorry for the long list of questions. I just want to make sure I know everything before I do anything so I won't have a bad experience. Thanks a lot guys!

********** SkyeHack **********

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1. I would wait to see some reviews, i see you want to go high end

2. you probably do, open you case and see if you have a brown slot (AGP with the video card plugged in) on top of a white slots (pci) that have other devices (sounds NIC).

3. Most brands manchmard within 1% of each other so go based on looks or whatever...i would go with price

4. check out www.bizrate.com and read some, www.newegg.com is just about everyones favorite though

5. you system should be fine, go to www.anandtech.com and check out how you system will scape in a ti4600 review

6. any modern directx game will run great on that card

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