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<blockquote data-quote="frugal" data-source="post: 1445924" data-attributes="member: 12517">Gefore 3 is probably not worth it because it already does not support a lot of the common features of new games. So you will probably be in this situation again in a year if you buy one.Matrox Parhelia does not have a very good bang for the buck. They have some really nice features but they are no where near as fast as a similarly priced GeForce / Radeon.Gefore 4 is again coming to the end of it's life. To the extent that when my Fiance's Gefore4 TI 4200 blew a capacitor after 3 months they sent us a GeForce FX5600 Ultra to replace it.the Geforce Fx has some serious problems with older motherboards. I am using the replacement 5600 as the 5600 I buoght for my PC will not even fit (it is too long and the memory gets in the way). I have a farily common AMD motheboard (KT7A) and I can not run 3d unless I halve the clock speed on the card. No matter what drivers I use the card will hard lock teh machine in 15 minutes. From the reasearch I did afterwards it would appear that the FX series was rushed to market and has some serious bugs. Now it may well be that in the past 6 months they have been sorted in hardware, but the hardware I have is fairly flaky.I have heard nothing but good things about the Radeons, they seem to be taking the 3d gaming crown from NVidia.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="frugal, post: 1445924, member: 12517"] Gefore 3 is probably not worth it because it already does not support a lot of the common features of new games. So you will probably be in this situation again in a year if you buy one. Matrox Parhelia does not have a very good bang for the buck. They have some really nice features but they are no where near as fast as a similarly priced GeForce / Radeon. Gefore 4 is again coming to the end of it's life. To the extent that when my Fiance's Gefore4 TI 4200 blew a capacitor after 3 months they sent us a GeForce FX5600 Ultra to replace it. the Geforce Fx has some serious problems with older motherboards. I am using the replacement 5600 as the 5600 I buoght for my PC will not even fit (it is too long and the memory gets in the way). I have a farily common AMD motheboard (KT7A) and I can not run 3d unless I [B]halve[/B] the clock speed on the card. No matter what drivers I use the card will hard lock teh machine in 15 minutes. From the reasearch I did afterwards it would appear that the FX series was rushed to market and has some serious bugs. Now it may well be that in the past 6 months they have been sorted in hardware, but the hardware I have is fairly flaky. I have heard nothing but good things about the Radeons, they seem to be taking the 3d gaming crown from NVidia. [/QUOTE]

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