Reply 20 of 46, by mothergoose729
darry wrote on 2020-08-29, 00:28:andre_6 wrote on 2020-08-29, 00:19:mothergoose729 wrote on 2020-08-29, 00:07:If you are benchmarking in windows 98, the geforce 4 cards tend to perform best because of the driver overhead of later cards. This is true even if you are using a faster CPU.
I don't have much experience as you probably realised, so would you recommend a GeForce 4 Ti variant over an FX5900 for example? I have a GeForce 4 MX440, but Vogons thaught me that the MX line it's not the same as the other Geforce 4 ones
I'm looking for the best possible performance to respect the CPU speed, I'm particularly curious to see the difference in playing SimCity 3000 and Quake III Arena after I complete the build. Even Outlaws ran slowly in my previous Celeron 600mhz / obscure Supergrace board/ GeForce 4 MX440 build.
The Geforce FX 5900 is definitely a faster card than the Geforce 4 Ti . However they will both likely be bottlenecked by the CPU (which is what you want if you want maximize the CPU's abilities) , so it's hard for me to say what the speed difference would be on your CPU . I'm almost certain somebody has compared these graphics chips with a Tualatin and posted results on Vogons .
Given the same CPU, if you benchmark quake III in windows 98 and then in XP I would expect you would get better results in windows XP. So when choosing a graphics card for windows 98, there is an important distinction between the fastest graphics card that will run well in windows 98, and what graphics card give you the best performance in windows 98. I would recommend a Geforce FX card, but the gerforce 4 ti cards are usually faster in that operating system because of drivers.