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offline Omneignotumus on 2002-03-04 19:29 [#00111289]
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What is the best video card for PC?


 

offline lctroboy from BorÃ¥s (Sweden) on 2002-03-04 19:32 [#00111293]
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how much money do you have and what is the purpose of it?
gaming, 3d-modelling, etc etc etc?


 

offline Omneignotumus on 2002-03-04 19:34 [#00111297]
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Video microscopy and some gaming also hopefully. Wondering
if I can knock out two birds...
Money isn't an object, it comes from National Institute of
Health.


 

offline Omneignotumus on 2002-03-04 19:35 [#00111298]
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Are some better for importing and viewing video data while
others are better for games?


 

offline lctroboy from BorÃ¥s (Sweden) on 2002-03-04 19:36 [#00111300]
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Hmmm. I suppose so,.


 

offline Omneignotumus on 2002-03-04 19:37 [#00111304]
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What's the best one for games and emulators?


 

offline Darth manchu from Cambridge (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-04 19:39 [#00111307]
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Geforce 3 titanium for gaming and anything else under the
sun.

Costs the GDP of a small country, but its rather nice.


 

offline lctroboy from BorÃ¥s (Sweden) on 2002-03-04 19:39 [#00111310]
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check this out. it's quite hot.

Diamond Fire GL2 AGP 64 Mb DDR

http://www.diamondmm.com


 

offline Ubik from United States on 2002-03-04 20:19 [#00111434]
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there is a GeForce 4 out now...

the video card market changes radically every year thou


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-03-04 20:36 [#00111477]
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I have a Geforce 2 with 64mb DDR and that costs about £120
now. Works brilliant on my 22" monitor :)


 

offline Darth manchu from Cambridge (United Kingdom) on 2002-03-04 20:39 [#00111487]
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I've got a crappy geforce 2 mx. Works ok on my 19" monitor
:|


 

offline tunemx from Budapest (Hungary) on 2002-03-04 21:07 [#00111546]
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I have a GeForce 3 Ti200 (Hercules). Works OK.

ATI 8500 owners claim they have crystal clear picture which
beats any nvidia chip.

And now Hercules' ATI cards are out in an unbelievable low
price. I saw one for 224 canadian bucks...

go to Tom's hardware for reviews and tips.


 

offline AMinal from Toronto (Canada) on 2002-03-04 21:23 [#00111553]
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ya the ati 8500's are supposed to have superior 2d picture..
and very close 3d performance to the geforce 3s...

plus the ATIs have some features nvidia doesn't (like
truform), and are supposed to be better for video editing

the new ones come w/ 128 mb of ddr ram..


 

offline tunemx from Budapest (Hungary) on 2002-03-04 21:28 [#00111559]
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Yeah and consider HydraVision on ATI too. (dual monitor
support)


 

offline blue_clax from Edmonton (Canada) on 2002-03-04 22:01 [#00111592]
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I would say ATI's 8500 right now would be yer best bet. Has
great 2d support as well.


 

offline tunemx from Budapest (Hungary) on 2002-03-04 22:06 [#00111595]
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Consider a Kyro II based card too. It is cheap, brilliant
2D, fast 3D. Though not as fast as a recent Geforce 3, but
it is working by a revolutionary theory when rendering 3D
images. It is calculating the parts of the image that is
visible, and rendering only that. While an nvidia is
rendering everything, even a whole structure, or anything
that is not even visible.
It is not that big advance until it is getting to hig
resolutions. Then Kyro II is starting to win over the brute
force cards.



 


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