NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 Graphics Card?

Im not sure on the Inspiron but I can give you some info since I have the Leadtek 128mb ti4400 on my desktop.

The last time I ran a benchmark I got 11106 on 3dmark01.
The card was moderately overclocked, but can easily run at ti4600 speeds.
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5239305

As far as gaming is concerned, it can handle dx 8 games with no problems at all, and most dx 9 games. But you may have to tone down some settings for some games or possibly overclock the ti4600 some. Overall, it can handle just about any game recently released. The only game that was choppy as heck was Halo.

Overall a solid card that can had for cheap nowadays, but I dont know if you are talking about for laptops or desktops...

But its a card thats been out for close to 2 years now so its a bit dated, so dont expect blazing performance with some of the newer games coming out.

Uh, not well.

The Ti4600 was cutting edge in like 2001/early 2002. You're looking at a 3dmark 2001se score of around 10-14k, depending on the system it's in.

For comparison, the latest ATi cards do 17-21k+

And the Ti4600 is not DirectX 9 compatible, which newer cards are.

Also, keep in mind that nVidia cards have never had image quality that is as good as ATi's. This is the main reason why I've always used ATi cards, even when the ATi chips weren't quite as fast as the nVidia stuff- nVidia's crappy image quality didn't justify the extra speed.

Get a Radeon 9800XT, 9800 Pro, 9700 Pro, 9800, 9700, 9500 Pro, 9600XT, 9600 Pro, 9500, or 9600 (in order from fastest to slowest).

Just whatever you do, do NOT get a GeForce FX. The entire GeForce FX line is the single biggest f**k up in the history of the graphics card industry, and probably in the history of the entire computer industry.

None of the GeForce FX cards, including the top of the line 5950 cards, can run DX9 code at anything resembling acceptable frame rates, and the image quality is STILL subpar.

The GeForceFX 5200, which is the budget FX, is the most pathetic excuse for a graphics accelerator in recent history. The older GeForce 4MX cards are faster. Hell, the Radeon 7500m 64mb in my LAPTOP is faster than the FX5200, and by a pretty good margin too. ;D

ok, when you review video cards, remember like erik said, its a laptop version not a desktop version. dont post desktop v card reviews because the can be misleading.

deathinacan

Just saw your other post:
They did not, did not, did NOT put the Ti4600 in a laptop. Ever. Period.

The only cards they released remotely close to that core is the Geforce 4200 go (dell only ) and the Quadro 700 both based on pretty much the same chip equivalent to the 4200 Ti 64MB cards did you mean the 5600? Dont let people get you down if you own the card the geforce 4x00 series ha da lot going for them if you exlcude the lack of DX9 they had key assets to there core design that the new Nvidia or ATi cards have which make them able to perform so well against next gen cards in DX7 and DX8.

Yeah, gotta be a typo. Got a link to the site?

//Edit
Dell-Machina is right (I may have come across a bit harsh on the Tis in my first post)

They're decent cards. They're probably the fastest DX8.1-class GPUs around (although my overclocked 8500 is a tib faster than a Ti4600... but that doesn't count, because it's overclocked) but the image quality is still not up to ATi's or Matrox's. [H]ardOCP did a review of the 5900 or something a while ago. I should see if I can dig up the screenshots.

The difference between the nVidia and ATi cards in terms of image quality is amazing. The nVidia cards' image quality is ABYSMAL.

That is definetly the Geforce 5650 its a typo on dells part it happens a lot dont worry thats a good system

tack on 3 years trust me then you have a good system if you dont stop now you'll neve rbe satisfied

yes thats a an excellent price you can alwasy upgrade everything else later with 3 years your covered

Trust the caring moderator

Gotta be a 5600.

If you're going to use this for gaming, I cannot emphasize this enough:

DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT GET THAT NOTEBOOK

It's got a GeForce FX5600 card in it. The 5600 is a piece of crap. It is only a marginally smaller piece of crap than the 5200, but it's still a very, very large piece of crap in it's own right.

Getting that notebook for games is an exceedingly bad idea.

only if you break something if you install it and it turns on and nothing oges wrong within 24 hour sof it (like they can find out pfft) then its automatically covered. its nice dell still unofficially supports video upgrades by throwing us bios updates adn still supporting it in the warrenty