what grahics card would you recormend?
Saturday, June 7, 2003 by feline | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
*sigh* following the problem with DVD playback lastnight https://www.wincustomize.com/msgboard.asp?BID=WC&id=157507 i opened up my machine to make sure that my graphics card was properly in its slot.
as far as i can tell it is, however, despite being as careful as i could be, my machine no longer boots!
all i get are some beeps from the mother board. it is as if it cannot find the graphics card.
so, it is possible (i do hope not) that i am going to need to get a new graphics card. if i do, what would people recormend?
my last machine had an ATI card, but given the problems i had with drivers i got a nvidia gforce2 for my current machine. however, i have had a mass of driver problems with the nvidia card, so i am very loath to get another nvidia card. if they cannot relably produce stable drivers, why should i by another one of their cards?
from what i have read the ATI cards seem to be very good these days, with good hardware support for winFX 2.
i dont play a lot of games, but i do play some. in power terms, my current nvidia gforce2 MX 64meg card is fine, if it would just work!
as far as i can tell it is, however, despite being as careful as i could be, my machine no longer boots!
all i get are some beeps from the mother board. it is as if it cannot find the graphics card.
so, it is possible (i do hope not) that i am going to need to get a new graphics card. if i do, what would people recormend?
my last machine had an ATI card, but given the problems i had with drivers i got a nvidia gforce2 for my current machine. however, i have had a mass of driver problems with the nvidia card, so i am very loath to get another nvidia card. if they cannot relably produce stable drivers, why should i by another one of their cards?
from what i have read the ATI cards seem to be very good these days, with good hardware support for winFX 2.
i dont play a lot of games, but i do play some. in power terms, my current nvidia gforce2 MX 64meg card is fine, if it would just work!
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Jakal
Reply #42 Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:03 PM
Reply #42 Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:03 PM
Go with the nVidia 5900 Ultra if you are buying a new card and price doesn''t matter (it''s beat the ATI cards in pretty much every benchmark I''ve seen). I use the GeForce4 Ti4600. It works great and probably won''t cost you that much now.
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Reply #41 Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:44 PM
I am glad this ended for the best with feline (and others)
I learned allot about these card drivers. All I really want is to play my simple Microsoft Train Simulator game and use winFX on my system without such a huge hit (along with DX of which I really never had a problem even on win98 with 64 RAM)
I guess this is why I get so confused with all this 512 this and 264 that. If it works fine on a 128 system card and doesn't work on a 512, what is the problem?