Maybe selecting this video card.

[slnorth]

Tiggerdirect has a deal on a
PNY GeForce4 MX440 Video Card / 64MB / AGP 8X / TV Out
after sale and rebate it's $30.

Is Verto a model mane or company that makes this card using PNY and Gforce parts?

I’m replacing some old 16 & 32mb video cards and this should work well for one of them. No gaming just kids education software, homework and internet etc.

Are there any known conflicts with trying to do some VHS-DVD or DVD back-up work using this card just incase I use it?

Thank you for any input.

[Jayhawk]

I'm running the GEoforce4 MX440 in both my home machines with zero conflicts. I do a lot of DVD and video. Both mine are Gigabyte brand but the chipset and drivers are the same for all the MX440's (nVidia). Should be just fine but I've never heard of the brand.

[rallynavvie]

Verto is the name for PNYs consumer video cards. They also have the Quadro series for workstations. PNY makes great video cards so if that's all the power you need then it'll certainly be worth the money. They also have pretty good tech support/customer service.

[slnorth]

Thank you for the input all

At this time the card is actually in my main comp (athalon 1800, winxp) and I've been having banshee driver problems and besides lock--ups my screen would completely shut down. The card is on it's last legs and I could use it in the any of the other 2- 3 comps I can scrap together for the kids with the spare parts I have. That seemed like a great price for any card.

Before I pushed the buy button I checked out a surplus/recycle parts place out here (that just charged a lot of $ for old stuff) and one other mom/pop computer shop. I ended up getting a new Asus V7100 pro 64 MX400(not sure how that compares to the MX440), optical mouse and round IDE cables for the same or less than online and still w/o sales tax, shipping or waiting a week and still having to send in an 8 week rebate.

It doesn't seem they sell simple video cards anymore but in any case my screens come alive faster, look better, and when I have my stock charts and some 12 other pages open it runs smoother...no, a lot smoother. I just hope converting video works ok when I get back to that.

Thanx again

[Jayhawk]

I believe the 400 uses SDRAM and the 440 uses DDR memory. Unless your a big game player you should see any difference. Sounds like a great buy. I have also found that there are some great small computer shops around my area. I'd like them to stay in business so I rarely shop on line anymore (for computer parts, anyway).