Tetrium wrote:Scali wrote:
No matter how you try to spin it, the GF4Ti4200 will balance out better than the GF4MX.
Or as others have already mentioned and is common knowledge here, it will fry his board or actually have no benefit whatsoever except for eating time and costing money.
That's a lot of assumptions and straw men.
Firstly, I have never heard of a GF4Ti4200 frying any boards. Why would it do that? It's a pretty modest card in terms of power consumption (as cards were back then), with a small heatsink+fan. Heck, even the Ti4600 still ran on only the AGP bus power, and I never heard of that card frying any boards either.
As for costing money... We don't know, perhaps he already owns the card, and just wants to know whether it's worthwhile. Or perhaps he's rich enough that the cost of a Ti4200 is insignificant, and does not factor into the decision at all.
Likewise, if time were a concern, then why even ask the question if you should swap a card or not? You know it's going to take some limited amount of time to open the case, get the old card out, get the new card in, close the case again, and start the machine.