Video Card Help.

I am soon getting a Customised Computer and I need help in getting a video card. Can You help me please. I need a good Video card.

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Depends how much you wanna pay and what you define as good:

Nvidia Geforce 4 ti 4800 is good, it'll satisfy your needs probably for about 2 or 3 years.

Also depends on what you are going to do with it... for gaming the aforementioned will be fine... for graphics rendering or 3d animation stuff... I dunno.

 

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Nvidia is the best.

 

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i really need it for gaming. i wan't the comp. to it's best

 

Gotta go for the Radeon. Cheap solution is the 9500 which is easily hacked to a 9800, but if your not inclined 9800 still kicks ass. And it likes hl2.

http://www.gamersdepot.com/hardware/video_cards/ati_vs_nvidia/dx9_desktop/HL2_benchmarks/002.htm

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i don't like Ati's or radeon
how many types of Gforce 4 are there

 

Just get a geforce 5..they are cheap now due to Nvidia being shamed by ATI.....BestBuy and other major electronic retailers sell them every week on sale...do a little work and it shouldn't be hard to find.

 

hmm how strong are they and by that i mean how many years will it last until it becomes usless

 

2 days.

 

I find that when you buy a new high end video card, it can play all the high end games released that year, all the medium end ones of the next year, and all the low-end ones the following year.

 

...What's a 'medium-end'?

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by how long it lasts i also mean how many years till a new good game will come out and make the video card useless

 

2 days.

 

What quality graphics will you put up with before you declare a card 'useless'? I have a GeForce3, which is a couple years old now. I don't get any of the new DX9 benefits from it, and I can't run games in the highest resolutions, but it still performs well enough for me.

 

okay so Gforce it is

 

the geforce FX 5900 is the best performing model at the moment.

 

Really:m:

 

Willing to sell your soul to get one?

 

from arstechnica's system guide (updated yesterday!):
http://arstechnica.com/guide/system/godbox.html


"Video:
ATI Radeon 9800XT

nVidia's GeforceFX 5950 is a good solution, but the Radeon 9800XT is the best available right now. The 128MB version of the 9800 Pro is much cheaper, but at this price range, we demand the 256MB.

Those who don't game much may find the Matrox Parhelia for 2D graphics and triple-head love. For those looking to make a true professional graphics workstation, a 3D Labs Wildcat 4 would probably be a better choice, at the expense of gaming performance. For those of you picking up a card capable of dual-head DVI use, make sure you pick up a dual link DVI to VGA adapter, as a dual link DVI cable is required for 1600x1200 operation on both outputs.

Sticking with the 9800XT — if dual monitors aren't enough, you may want to add a Matrox Parhelia PCI or something else to feed the extra monitors, or something more ordinary like a Matrox G450 PCI or ATI Radeon 7500.

Cost: US$458.50 (12/1/2003) [Comparison shop for this item]"
note, the $458 price tag is for the ATI Radeon card.


In general, the radeon cards tend to have better anti-aliasing, however, the NVidia card does better w/reguards to fog clipping. these days, normal users won't be able to tell the difference.

Some of Nvidia's pixel-shading methods are currently not deemed "legal" for some benchmarking tests, and are therefore disabled by those tests. however, the methods in question work very well, so simply calling the illegal is kinda dumb.

I like ATI, simply because they've historically delivered more stable drivers in the past. the updates are fewer than w/ Nvidia, but when they come out, they work (horrifying images of detonator drivers for the Gforce2 float through my mind).

and whatever you do, AVOID ANY NVIDIA CARD WITH "MX" AT THE END OF THE TITLE (ie, no buying a Gforce 4 MX - it's basically a crappy Geforce 3 for twice the price.)



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edit: form the same system guide, but the budget box section:
"Video:
ATI Radeon 9100 128MB

ATI's Radeon 9100 continues in the Budget Box. Seriously consider the Radeon 9600/9600 Pro or the nVidia Geforce4 Ti4200 for better performance. The current Budget Box + a 9600 Pro would be a formidable competitor to Hot Rods of just a year ago.

Those who don't do anything 3D-related should stick with the on-board GF2MX-level graphics of the nForce chipset to save a considerable amount of money. An nForce2 IGP motherboard would be necessary for that, of course, such as the MSI K7N2G. For office work, the integrated graphics are an excellent solution at this price point.

Cost: US$72 (12/01/2003) [Comparison shop for this item] "

note the GF2MX (GeForce2MX - that damn MX thing!

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) listed as the built-in graphics for the nforce2 motherboard. Good enough for MS Word, suck-ass for any games.

 

i would go with the NVIDIA it also dependes on what your motherboard takes does it take agp or pci which are both slots on the motherboard of your computer but any way NVIDIA is the best way to go