What Video Card do I want?

[Terry]

Just upgraded computer to a soyo p41, 1.8pent4 with firewire built in. My old Rage maxx fury is not working well under xp with no help from ATI. So I think I will buy a new card. Money is not really an object and have no real interest in tv i/o. Not really sure I need a card with firewire built in or not since mb has it already??? Any suggestions out there?

[holistic]

Ok i'll play your little game ....

What card do YOU want?

What will be the main usage ? Games / CAD / Graphics / home theatre ?!
What res/refresh will you run at?
What type of monitor do you have?

I have (on my video computer) a 16 Mb matrox G400 dual head and am very happy with it.
One output goes to a 21" monitor running 1280*1024*32 @ 85Hz and the other goes to my projection TV. The dual head will also allow 2 monitors at different res/refresh to be used.

Since i have little time for gaming now that i am into the video gig, the 16Mb on the card is more than sufficient.

RECOMEND : either the - MATROX G450 or G550 dual head cards

[dmonty]

Oh I know....

You want a Diamond Stealth 2D card with 2 Megs of VRam. OOOOO just think of what you could do with 256 colors at 800x600.



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[holistic]

Nah - wouldn't work

In their infinite stupidy SOYO removed the ISA bus from that board

Pity