spacekowboy
Technical User
i am not a gamer so 32 or even 16meg should be fine,
which geforce or other card is most trouble free and effective with word processing and jpgs/camera images and
the net?
thanks
:-x x->
Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations IamaSherpa on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
buying new vid card
- Thread starter spacekowboy
- Start date
- Status
i am not a gamer so 32 or even 16meg should be fine,
which geforce or other card is most trouble free and effective with word processing and jpgs/camera images and
the net?
thanks
:-x x->
Practically anything will do!
But my advice is based on support and resale.
The G/force range is particularly well supported by Nvidia, so updates for new operating systems and the constant driver improvements are going to be available for a long time to come.
The baby of the range should be fine (G/force 2 mx200)
with just a chip heatsink is hasn't even got an active fan to go noisey and from what I have heard is rock solid.
Also the Radeon 32mb VE, around the same price has similar atributes but perhaps not as good a driver backup.
You could opt for Nvidia's older TNT2 as your demands are not high but for the small saving it might not be worth compared to the MX200. Martin Vote if you found this post helpful please!!
But my advice is based on support and resale.
The G/force range is particularly well supported by Nvidia, so updates for new operating systems and the constant driver improvements are going to be available for a long time to come.
The baby of the range should be fine (G/force 2 mx200)
with just a chip heatsink is hasn't even got an active fan to go noisey and from what I have heard is rock solid.
Also the Radeon 32mb VE, around the same price has similar atributes but perhaps not as good a driver backup.
You could opt for Nvidia's older TNT2 as your demands are not high but for the small saving it might not be worth compared to the MX200. Martin Vote if you found this post helpful please!!
Jakespeare
Vendor
I agree on the GeForce / Nvidia based video.
ATI is a poor choice compared to the ease of use of an Nvidia chipset based card.
** My choice for you....... at $51.00 ..that is with shipping even (in the U.S.)
> These are a Premium brand video card. Excellent.
Gainward / Card Expert
CardExpert GeForce2 MX 200 32MB SDRAM AGP -RETAIL - NVIDIA GeForce2 MX-200 GPU 256-bit 3D and 2D graphic accelerator NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer Integrated Second Generation Transform and Lighting Engines 4 texels per clock 32-bit color with 32-bit stencil. Cube environment mapping
blah, blah, blah.....
$45.00 + $6.00 FedEx shipping
ATI is a poor choice compared to the ease of use of an Nvidia chipset based card.
** My choice for you....... at $51.00 ..that is with shipping even (in the U.S.)
> These are a Premium brand video card. Excellent.
Gainward / Card Expert
CardExpert GeForce2 MX 200 32MB SDRAM AGP -RETAIL - NVIDIA GeForce2 MX-200 GPU 256-bit 3D and 2D graphic accelerator NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer Integrated Second Generation Transform and Lighting Engines 4 texels per clock 32-bit color with 32-bit stencil. Cube environment mapping
blah, blah, blah.....
$45.00 + $6.00 FedEx shipping
Well, if you are only using it for word processing and for viewiong images, but still want an absolutly reliable card, which will work for years and years without any problem and noise I say, buy a Matrox G400/G450. Its not that bad in 3D as well, and gives an amazing image quality. Its price is a bit higher than a plane GF2 MX, but it has dual monitor support and is a really excellent card. I had an MGA200, G200 and after that a G400, yet a G450. They were all pretty good, no problem with them. Their driver support is excellent as well.
I will have to swing away from the crowd here and suggest an ATI video card. ATI is only iffy when you buy their most recent cards, but once a product has been out for a little bit, ATI does perfect their drivers.
When I put together computers today that aren't looking for 3D performance, you can get an agp video card based off of ATI's Rage 128 chipset new for under $30 - the drivers are remarkably reliable and the software that accompagnies the drivers is so much nicer that what nVidia provides. These are still sold all over the internet, so just find one that's 4x AGP, ATI's Xpert 2000 model card I know is 4x AGP.
Speaking of the Matrix cards, they are very good too, fastest video card in 2D performance. The G450 card gives you dual monitor support plus S-Video and RCA video out (an adapter comes with the card to convert the second monitor output to these other output types). Problem is they're relatively expensive, but if somehow you find one for a low price...
As for memory size that you need, 2D applications don't even fill the first 8meg of video ram, so your card will perform at the exact same speed whether you've got 8meg or 64meg of onboard ram. It's storing 3D textures that the extra ram is put onto video cards for. That's why I look at such product lines as the GeForce MX line with 64meg ram and laugh, that's just total over-kill for the targetting audience of the MX line.
When I put together computers today that aren't looking for 3D performance, you can get an agp video card based off of ATI's Rage 128 chipset new for under $30 - the drivers are remarkably reliable and the software that accompagnies the drivers is so much nicer that what nVidia provides. These are still sold all over the internet, so just find one that's 4x AGP, ATI's Xpert 2000 model card I know is 4x AGP.
Speaking of the Matrix cards, they are very good too, fastest video card in 2D performance. The G450 card gives you dual monitor support plus S-Video and RCA video out (an adapter comes with the card to convert the second monitor output to these other output types). Problem is they're relatively expensive, but if somehow you find one for a low price...
As for memory size that you need, 2D applications don't even fill the first 8meg of video ram, so your card will perform at the exact same speed whether you've got 8meg or 64meg of onboard ram. It's storing 3D textures that the extra ram is put onto video cards for. That's why I look at such product lines as the GeForce MX line with 64meg ram and laugh, that's just total over-kill for the targetting audience of the MX line.
Go to newegg.com and buy a visiontek Geforce2 GTS-V video card for $50.00.
These are "video-out only", (OEM) video card. They come with a setup disk. They have a 5 out of 5 stars customer satisfaction rate. I like mine, and it is great for 3D games. If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.
These are "video-out only", (OEM) video card. They come with a setup disk. They have a 5 out of 5 stars customer satisfaction rate. I like mine, and it is great for 3D games. If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Question