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Originally Posted by SiN
I'm a bit confused on a couple things though -
1. 64 or 128? (or, does this have anything to do with the Aperture Size of my mobo's GI? 64 MB in my case)
2. am I wrong, or is this an old card? I think this is what my bf has in his computer, and it's almost 2 years old.
2a. If I'm right, then why would my bf be considering the GeForce FX5500 128MB as an 'upgrade'?
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1. 64 MB or 128 MB. Whichever you can afford! Both are fine.
2. Yes, it is an old card. I believe the TI4200 came out in 2002.
2a. Probably because 99% of videocard buyers assume that later generations are more powerful. NVIDIA released a really powerful set of videocards in 2002 (GF4 TI series). In 2003 they released the GeForce FX series. The first few FX cards aren't even as good as GF4 TI series! They're simply newer.
The GeForce 4 TI4200 will actually run better on older games than the FX 5500 also. I've yet to see any benchmarks with the FX 5500 but I'm betting that it's based on technology somewhere in between an FX 5200 and FX 5600. Neither one of those are as good as a GF 4 TI4200 so I'm assuming that the FX 5500 won't be that great either.
-Lasereth