Video cards, why waist the money.
This is a discussion about Video cards, why waist the money. in the Windows Hardware category; Well, it isn't that simple. If your going to play todays new games, it'll require a high-end 3d accelerator with a good amount of onboard memory. Try playing Quake 3 on your generic svga card. . . if it's even possible.
Well, it isn't that simple. If your going to play todays new games, it'll require a high-end 3d accelerator with a good amount of onboard memory. Try playing Quake 3 on your generic svga card...if it's even possible. Thus, the reason why people including myself pay $150+ for a video card.
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I have come to the conclusion that buying expensive video cards is just plain stupid. All you really need to get is a super vga card and windows is good. Next time you are tempted by fancy looking video card boxes don't give in. All they are is just hype and box design. I am running a generic svga card and I am fine. It's like why pay over 200 for a card when you could buy 20 of my svga card for that ammount of money.
This post sounds an awful lot like the infamous jdulmage thread that went on for 7 pages. Of course it's not enough to have just an SVGA card. If you plan on playing any games you need at least a d3d or openGL etc supported card. If you only use a word processor, a plain old SVGA card may be enough, of course. But most of the time cards like TNT2, GeForce, v3 are well worth the money, if you play any games.
Andy
Andy
Yeah, Fuxor it, i bought a 64meg geforce ddr.
Andy_25, your right, it does sound like that But really, if your only planning on doing some small applications and running windows and that's it, then just get a small vid card. But if you want to run games like Quake, Unreal Tour, etc. then get a good one.
I'm running a 16 MB RivaTNT Vid Card.
See Ya.
"I wonder if that jdulmage post is going to be remembered for a long time" - jdulmage
I'm running a 16 MB RivaTNT Vid Card.
See Ya.
"I wonder if that jdulmage post is going to be remembered for a long time" - jdulmage
OK,
well it depends what you do with it ..
I have a Millenium 2Mo running W2K perfectly fine, of course i'n not playing on this computer. On the other hand I have a Fury 32Mo which is running games perfectly.
depends what you wanna do ...
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Config:
Dual celeron 400 on BP6
128 Mo SDRAM PC 100
Rage fury 32Mo, SB Live Player
IBM 20Go U66,DVD A103S,Yamaha 4*4*16*: IDE
Win2000 Final
well it depends what you do with it ..
I have a Millenium 2Mo running W2K perfectly fine, of course i'n not playing on this computer. On the other hand I have a Fury 32Mo which is running games perfectly.
depends what you wanna do ...
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Config:
Dual celeron 400 on BP6
128 Mo SDRAM PC 100
Rage fury 32Mo, SB Live Player
IBM 20Go U66,DVD A103S,Yamaha 4*4*16*: IDE
Win2000 Final
