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- Dec 6, 2002
Video Card Recomendations
I am putting together a new computer system and have ordered all of the components except for a video card. My prime goal with building this system is stability, first and foremost. It will run 24 hours a day seven days a week. I have overclocked in the past but none of the components in my new system will be overclocked. Probably most of the machine's time will be spent on the internet/email, gps mapping programs, and small amounts of word processing. I think I might like to get into a few games but that is not my major past time. I saw a game called Medal of Honor the other day which I was interested in and might try that out. I really don't understand what the big deal is about running games at high resolutions as I run my current computer at 800 x 600. Maybe there's a big advantage I'm not aware of. The card I am running now is a Diamond 32 mb Riva TNT 1 and it meets my requirements so far along with my celeron 300. I even ran Quake 1 on it and it seemed ok although I've never played the game more than twice. I was initially leaning toward a GeForce 4 TI 4200 but now I'm wondering if something even less than this will meet my needs. The Radeon 7500, 8500, 9000 seemed to be priced well while the the GeForce 4 MX 440 128mb is about as high as I think I will go as far as price. Like I said....stabilty is the most important aspect of this new machine and I have read about driver issues with Radeon cards. I am suffering video card review burnout and will probably buy a video card based on what is recommended in response to this thread. I appreciate any advice.
Here is the system I'm putting together:
Win 2000
Asus A7V333
1 GB pc 2700
Athlon XP 2100
I am putting together a new computer system and have ordered all of the components except for a video card. My prime goal with building this system is stability, first and foremost. It will run 24 hours a day seven days a week. I have overclocked in the past but none of the components in my new system will be overclocked. Probably most of the machine's time will be spent on the internet/email, gps mapping programs, and small amounts of word processing. I think I might like to get into a few games but that is not my major past time. I saw a game called Medal of Honor the other day which I was interested in and might try that out. I really don't understand what the big deal is about running games at high resolutions as I run my current computer at 800 x 600. Maybe there's a big advantage I'm not aware of. The card I am running now is a Diamond 32 mb Riva TNT 1 and it meets my requirements so far along with my celeron 300. I even ran Quake 1 on it and it seemed ok although I've never played the game more than twice. I was initially leaning toward a GeForce 4 TI 4200 but now I'm wondering if something even less than this will meet my needs. The Radeon 7500, 8500, 9000 seemed to be priced well while the the GeForce 4 MX 440 128mb is about as high as I think I will go as far as price. Like I said....stabilty is the most important aspect of this new machine and I have read about driver issues with Radeon cards. I am suffering video card review burnout and will probably buy a video card based on what is recommended in response to this thread. I appreciate any advice.
Here is the system I'm putting together:
Win 2000
Asus A7V333
1 GB pc 2700
Athlon XP 2100