cisco
» CMF MemberFor the PC enthusiasts among us..
I just built up a new machine, my old 3 year old PC died and is quite old anyway in computer terms, so I built a whole new system, the only thing I need to get is the graphics card.
I'm not a gamer. I do some multimedia stuff, but mostly just like to run a large res and have fast, snappy response.
If I decided to load up a half modern game, I wouldn't want it to totally suck, but I don't care if my frame rates aren't the fastest etc, in fact I will probably not even run any games.
The mobo has pci-express 16x, so I need a card for that interface. Its an ASUS Nforce4 board, but no onboard gfx.
My main dilemma was, for my needs, will the $88 DVI/TV-out ASUS PCI-E graphics cards totally suffice? I'm sure they probably would, but just not sure.. My old PC just had onboard nforce2 GFX, but I don't think it was all that crash hot..
Any recommendations? I don't want to go all out. Something reasonable but pretty cheap. Is there much difference between say the crappy x550 level cards and something like a x700/x800 or 6600 chipset?
xpertvision seem to be very well priced. Are they ok?
Thanks!
I just built up a new machine, my old 3 year old PC died and is quite old anyway in computer terms, so I built a whole new system, the only thing I need to get is the graphics card.
I'm not a gamer. I do some multimedia stuff, but mostly just like to run a large res and have fast, snappy response.
If I decided to load up a half modern game, I wouldn't want it to totally suck, but I don't care if my frame rates aren't the fastest etc, in fact I will probably not even run any games.
The mobo has pci-express 16x, so I need a card for that interface. Its an ASUS Nforce4 board, but no onboard gfx.
My main dilemma was, for my needs, will the $88 DVI/TV-out ASUS PCI-E graphics cards totally suffice? I'm sure they probably would, but just not sure.. My old PC just had onboard nforce2 GFX, but I don't think it was all that crash hot..
Any recommendations? I don't want to go all out. Something reasonable but pretty cheap. Is there much difference between say the crappy x550 level cards and something like a x700/x800 or 6600 chipset?
xpertvision seem to be very well priced. Are they ok?
Thanks!