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Dad's new card- is he on drugs?

Type "nvidia xt" into google and you'll find lots of pages talking about how at times Nvidia have used XT as a designator (and how this can be confusing) ... looks like XFX is using "XT" as part of its product name for 8800 series cards.

Something also make me think that in the past the "XT" may have been used for cards that were designed primarily for some of the big volume PC retailers (Medion seems to spring to mind) ... although that may have been the "XXT" cards
 
nVidia did use 'XT' for their lower end models of cards which was confusing as ATI were using it for their top end cards.

With all the suffixes such as GT GTS GTX GS GTO XT Ti MX SE LE PE Pro Ultra it's no wonder people get confused, especially when any number of these can be on the same card model.
 
how can you possibly tell *** difference between the words Ti, MX, SE, LE and PE.

I mean at least GS, GT,GTS and GTX you can kinda gues as you ad more letters on and and X always means good things... like XXX lol.
 
Keep saying - nVidia should go back to the old GeForce# Ti### namescheme. That was cool. :(

And they'd be able to make their 10-series namescheme not a blatant ripoff of ATi's or have like 10800 GTX cards...
 
8igdave said:
just hope its not crabs or something :p
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8igdave said:
how can you possibly tell *** difference between the words Ti, MX, SE, LE and PE.
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Unless you've got an interest in it I'd imagine it is very difficult for most people, let's fact it, a lot of the World goes "bigger numbers, must be better" when it is a bit more complicated than that. I'm sure you already know but just in case - essentially the middle three suffixes simply mean that the card has had its knackers cut off, the Geforce Ti series was pretty decent as were the ATI cards with a PE suffix.

8igdave said:
I mean at least GS, GT,GTS and GTX you can kinda gues as you ad more letters on and and X always means good things... like XXX lol.
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You could for a briefish period until in a blinding move of genius Nvidia screwed the pooch again and introduced the 8800GT which is generally faster than the old 8800GTS thereby rendering a whole new set of people confused.
 
Thats true they did ruin it all with the GT.

I dont actually nkwo the difference between the Ti, MX, SE,LE and PE they were before my time of knowing anything about a pc.

Guesing by tjhe names id say it goes from best to worst:

MX
PE
SE
LE

and i gues Ti could be anywehre lol.
 
8igdave said:
Guesing by tjhe names id say it goes from best to worst:

MX
PE
SE
LE

and i gues Ti could be anywehre lol.
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Not quite, the PE was ATI nomenclature and since it was applied on the X800series (for Platinum Edition) it is technically the best, both of the Ti series were pretty good - the Geforce 3 Ti 200 and Ti 500 were followed by the Ti 4200, 4400, 4600 and 4800 which were all pretty decent cards with some great overclockers in there.

The Geforce 2 and 4 MX versions were 'cut-down' editions of the real Geforce 2 GTS and Ultra or Ti 4X00 series. I don't recall a Geforce 3 MX card as such, if there was one it must have disappeared pretty quickly

SE (ATI 9XX0 series) and LE (Nvidia 5XX0 series) suffixes have always denoted graphics cards that are cut down in some way as far as I am aware.

The above is pretty much all from memory so I could be wrong on some of the minor details.
 
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