OpenGL that important?

[cburchhardt]

Hi,

I would like to buy a high-end graphics card and have come up with two that I like particularly...
They are both here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...chInDesc=xt pe&CMP=BAC-thardware_2005_banners

if you sort the results by price, they are the second and third from the top...
as you can see, they are the same basic card, but one has OpenGL 2.0 and the other has OpenGL 1.5 (and one has a massive cooling system)...

Since they are the same basic card, could this be a mistake?

I like the third from the top more (the "advanced" cooling system seems as though it would help cool the card more, which brings me to another point... would that special cooling system be more effective, or is it just show?), but is the OpenGL version so important that I should instead buy the second from the top?

 

[paparazi]

Not a lot of games use Open GL nowadays besides this information doesn't make sense, as the GPU determines the supported software enviroment and as these cards are all basically the same I 'm guess ing this is just a typo error rather than a true supported differance in models.
Even HIS official website does not specify OpenGL type.

http://www.hisdigital.com/html/product_ov.php?id=126

As a side note* Apart from the absence of pixel shader 3.0 (which certain games use) I rate the X800 series highly.

Martin



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[Krosus]

they are identical cards the only difference is one is retail and one is OEM (no box, free games etc)