GeForce 4

[FeelTheRT]

fellow computer nerds... the GeForce 4 is comming out on Feb 5th, a week from Valentines :).

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-817473.html

find all teh specs and info you need in the link provided.

[udtseal]

ohhhh!! ME WANT NOW! :) 300mhz core and 350mhz SDRAM!! YIKES!! Im still sporting my GeForce 2 Ultra. I wanna see the price of this Ti 4600.

[MantisMag]

there's more power in that graphics card then there is on my motherboard! i need a new computer.

[rhetor22]

I've still got a Voodoo3 3000 pci... 16megs.. woohoo!!

[Cha0tic]

wow....i need a new comp too....

[Ariestsheft]

rhetor22 - i hear ya man, my voodoo can hold up prety well. I get frame rates of at least 40 in counter-strike. Not to shabby. I mean you eye only need 24 frames per second to perceve fluid motion.

[UDTfrogman]

yea voodoo 3 3000 pci is the best video card out there man... hahaha i want the geforce 4 so badly

[FeelTheRT]

haha, do you really want a GeForce4 ?! The only reason why many people ( I including ) are so excited is because, the lower video cards such as GeForce 3s and 2s' prices are going to drop. I meen honestly, do you really need a GeForce 4 and I have no doubt that it will be cheap.

[slateman]

FeelTheRT: THANK YOU!!!! I have been looking for info on that card for a couple of days.

I'll finally be able to upgrade my TNT2 card

[Hexis]

Ariestsheft what do you base that 24fps figure on?

You can totally tell the difference between 30 and 60fps. I haven't see a good demo of 60 vs 120, but I would not be surprised if it was easy there.

The advantage of faster and faster cards isn't all fps, you can run higher res and color depth. These days with geometry processing on card you can also run more detailed meshes. The ever increasing mem on card allows higher res textures. All of these improvements make for a more impressive game, and for some are well worth the money.

[Cha0tic]

i'm happy with my 60-65fps in counter-strike.

[Ariestsheft]

its a proven fact that your eye perceves motion at 24 frames per second, ive seen documentarys about motion pictures and that is the frame rate needed to have the illusion of motion. to me anything over 70 is overkill, i mean its just eating up speed with frame rate. my little voodoo 3 purrs with about a minimum of 35 and a max of 73. these new cards are just for braging rights in the computer geek circles....

[joeyjoe367]

Man that thing is just as fast as my CPU, and has almost as much memory too :P

Jeebas.

The only place my computer beats it out is on hard drive space and CD-ROM Drive Speed, for obveous reasons

[Hexis]

I was looking for some info about the human eye, and came across this really nice article:

http://www.penstarsys.com/editor/30v60/30v60p1.htm

Read it, and you will understand why there is an advantage to having faster video cards than 30fps (totally ignoring the better models/textures a high end video card can support).

[Jonno06]

i need a new computer probly the most....
I have a MAXTECH modem,and a Gateway2000 P5-75 harddrive