If you had a 8MB G200 or 16MB TNT Which would you put in?

[Whisper]

If you had to choose between an 8MB G200 or a 16MB ASUS 3400 TNT, which would you choose?

Is the TNT still significantly faster than the G200, or is the reduction in picture quality not worth it for the increase in frame rates?

I think it would be pointless swapping for a 5fps gain, but if there was a 20 fps or more gain to be had, and the visual quality did not diminish significantly, then it maybe worth trying.

What do the rest of you think, given these 2 options, would you stay with your G200 or swap to the TNT?

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[MadCat]

TNT for certain. G200 has only one rendering pipelines, which makes it a no-go in Quake games and more recent D3D games. Also I have to give them credit: Nvidia has the FASTEST ICD out there. I switched from a TNT to a g400 16mb SH, and I noticed little difference in 2d quality. Unless youre going above 1280x1024 in 2d, go with the TNT.

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[hella356]

What kind of system do you have? The visual quality is very close but the TNT is significantly faster and is a much better gaming card. I've had both of these cards in a K6-2/300 and a K6-3/400 system and the G200 got smoked by the TNT. There might not be as much of a difference on an Intel system, due to the solid 3DNow! TNT drivers, but I don't know for sure. I would say the G200 barely edges the TNT visually, but is not even close in speed. On my K6-3 system the TNT is a bit faster than my G400 MAX. On an Athlon 700 the MAX smoked the TNT. I think the G200 is one of the best cards for non-gamers, but you'd be better of with the ASUS.

[Whisper]

It would be running in a Windows 98SE machine with a Celeron 366 @ 550MHz and 128MB's of RAM and 17" Sony Monitor @ 1024x768x32

Some MS Office Applications
A LOT of browsing
Games played are Starcraft, Unreal, UT, Quake3, HalfLife, AOE II, Midtown Madness etc etc.

This is not a troll btw, this is a real world dillema.

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[Edguy]

I've got an Asus V3400 with the video in/out's... i wouldn't recommend it to anyone, talked to others with the same card and there are no(!) good working drivers for the damn card.
1 set of drivers works great with video in/out and sucks in almost every game.
1 set works with quake3 but no d3d games, and video in doesn't work, and so on.

it is tho, much faster in games than my G200 that i used to own, but quality of the tv-out isn't nearly as nice.

Another TNT(not the asus one) could be better.

[DuRaNgO]

the tnt *might* be faster in ogl games, but I don't think there's a big difference in d3d if the tnt is actually faster at all, as for the visuals, get real, the g200 blows away the tnt, from past lan party experience of having tnt owners aww at my screen when I owned the g200
jim

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