This is not a thread to START a flame war on video cards...(ie V5-vs-GF2)

I am really interested in getting a GF2 to play my sims/games.

Thanks for your input. Just for your heads up, I am using a V5 right now and I like it but I saw a GForce and my jaw about hit the floor with the awesome colors that it had.

1st. There are several mainboards that have problems with the GeForce 256/GeForce2 GTS. These problems are caused because of their linear voltage supply to the AGP slots. Basicly it comes down to the fact that certain mainboards do not supply exactlz 3.30v to the AGP slot at all times. This causes problems with the GF cards. Abit and ASUS have changed the mainboards that had these problems. There are several hardware sites that have tested mainboards with the GF2 GTS and put up a list of mainboards that work fine and ones that cause problems. Since Im not at home rightnow, I cannot give you any specific URLs.. gotta forgive me that. But if you look at sites like Planet Hardware and Toms Hardware Guide, you're sure to find something.

2nd. Whatever you do, make sure your new system has a powersupply of 300watt. NOTHING LESS. Dont let any sales person fool you. Yes, your PII 450 ran fine at 235 watt.... even a heavy loaded PIII system runs fine at 250watt but without a 300 Watt supply, your AMD Duron/Athlon/Thunderbird is bound to run into stability problems and MOST CERTAINLY when you use a GeForce 256/2 GTS card. The AMD systems consume more power (watt) than Intel systems, combine that with the powerhungry 20GB+ 7200RPM ATA66/100 harddisks of today, a powerhungry GeForce2 GTS card..you'll be bound to run into problems if you have anything else than a 300 watt powersupply. Good friend of mine has a 900Mhz T-bird system and he could not get it to run stable.. no matter what. He was about to go nuts when it turned out that he had a 250 watt powersupply. After putting a 300 watt powersupply in his bigtower case.. the beast ran smooth as silk.

Do note that some KT133 chipset boards and especially the A7V/K7V boards sometimes might require some tweaking to get fully stable.

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Originally posted by Tazzman:
Yes, for a regular Pentium III system it will. However I can tell also from personal experiences with Athlons, anything less than 300watt on an AMD powered system is begging for trouble. A 300 watt powersupply doesnt cost much more than a 235 watt powersupply...and it will save you from many sleepless nights.

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I run my Athy 600 and GeForce 2 GTS on a 250 watt with no probs = )

OK, now comes in handy all of the Stealth trainning over these past 7 years of serious upgrading of my PC.

OBJECTIVE: get over to EBs without the enemys radar (my ball-N-chain) detecting me!

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, she's talking to the first born...I see clearence...if I get caught, I'll be imprisoned for forever ...

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Originally posted by Overkill:
I have a Geforce 2 with the 6.18 drivers. F4 is now brighter than ever before with FSAA set to 2x2. No problems whatsoever.

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Hi !
I´m curious, what are your FPS over the FLOT with FSAA 2x2 ? (and what computor, RAM, etc do you have to achieve it)

Also thinking about changing drivers so I can get the most performance possible. Anyone with this card who can make a suggestion?

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Originally posted by Popeye:
I have a GeForce2mx. I have not been able to find FSAA settings. Should I be able to? Where do I find them.
Popeye

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Once you hit that page, you will see two tabs on top. "More direct 3d" for the page youare on, and and "Antialiasing" tab that will take you to the Antialiasing page. There you can pick antialiasing, as well as force its use in all games.

Man, that's funny, (after reading it). You think they could have buried it any deeper?

HTH

GeForce is a no go on my 550@800 2/5 cache Athy on a K7PRO mobo. Power supply you ask? Try 350 Ask anyone who tried to play Rogue Spear with me, LOL!

My V5 5500 will rock! I'll trade in speed for stability.

Paul
former owner of a SDR GeForce that did 155MHZ core/ 210MHZ memory, owner of a V5 5500 sometime this week depending on the USPS!

Sorry for getting a little out of topic here, but i´m looking for a place where i can buy online the video card Annihilator or Abihilator pro and have international delivery. A place with some "reputation", all the places that i found don´t have international delivery.

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Originally posted by Tazzman:
The GF2 is infamous for not wanting to work properly on certain mainboards.

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Hey Tazzman,

you wouldn't know the names of those mainboards, would you?

I think the key is to make sure that the latest drivers for the motherboard chipset are installed. VIA doesn't have the best driver set IMO but I don't have any problems with mine.

I have a VIA-based chipset (ASUS K7V) and a GF2. The stability is great for me. I updated the BIOS, installed the latest nvidia drivers (5.22 at the time, now updated to the 6.18 detonator 3 drivers), and DX7 and my system runs great.

One thing about these systems is that the Athlon requires a very stable power supply. Most generic supplies aren't all that great when it comes to stable voltage. I had many problems until I realized this and installed an "Athlon approved" power supply. This did the trick for me.

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Regards,
- Jerry

I'm not trying to be critical because I don't really care what video card you like (I don't work for nvidia or 3dfx <g>!), but my guess is that removing the overclocking settings and running at the published settings for your processor would make it run stable.

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Regards,
- Jerry

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Originally posted by Pilgrimen:
Hey Tazzman,
you wouldn't know the names of those mainboards, would you?

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Not from my vacation address no... I'll look into it when it get home and post here.