Pentium3+GeForce4=Good Or Bad Choise?!?

[a3ternus]

I ve got a Pentium3@866MHz (not o/c) and a GeForceDDR.
I m gonna buy a new graphic Card and i cant choose between a GeForce3 Ti500 Or a GeForce4 Ti4200 . Could you please help me ?!?
WOuld i get the same performance out of the two cards cos of my relatively slow processor or the Ti4200 will still be faster ?!?
Any suggestions would help me a lot...
Nikitas.

[Sulik]

You should think about upgrading your CPU first.
Most of today's games are actually CPU-limited, so you'll see a bigger improvement from a CPU upgrade than from a video upgrade.

You can find P4 & AthlonXP for a pretty good deal right now, and go with a cheaper video card (8500LE/GF4MX)

[FactorM]

Perhaps this article will help a little bit:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1650&p=1

[a3ternus]

Money (lack of them actually) is my problem...
I m getting myself 512MB RAM (133MHz) for abt 90e.
So,The rest of money (around 250e) goes either to a GeForce Ti500 or a GeForceTi4200,both with 128MB DDR memory...
What would YOU buy ?!?
I m thinking GF4 cos of the fact that a future upgrade is gonna be abt the CPU/mobo *only* and NOT the Graphix card...
(Form a research on the WWW I think that the performance with my 800MHz Pentium III will be around the same with both GF cards...)
Nikitas.:confused:

[tjh011]

Get the GeForce 4! It has more support for future games and you will get longer use out of it.