That's not a video card she is asking to replace. The Matrox RT.X100 is a video editing acceleration card. It's not a video card per se.
From: Gregg Eshelman Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 6:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AP] replacement video card --- On Tue, 9/2/08, adriane61 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: adriane61 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [AP] replacement video card > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 4:09 PM > suggestions needed! my hubby's video card died (was > matrox rtx-100). > he's quite happy with AP 6.5 (yeah, i know, but > he's a relic too)and > we need to find a less-expensive option at this point (he > was laid off his job a month ago) > p.s. system is an alienware area 51 i believe, about 4 > years old. got > a good enough processor & 4 gb ram, running WIN Xp SP2. If you're looking for a PCI card, forget it. It's very difficult to find anything decent in a used PCI card these days and the few new PCI cards are a couple of generations old, overpriced and most often have less memory. Finding an AGP card is easier and there's quite a lot of them available from crappy olde 1x cards (most of which were really PCI designs shoehorned onto the AGP bus) to quite fast 8x cards. For an AGP card, find out the top speed of your PC's slot and don't settle for anything slower. I had good results with AP 6.5 and a GeForce 4 Ti 4200 4x. The GeForce 5000 (AKA GeForce FX) series is a mess with a few good chips amongst a pile of junk and middling performance ones. The 5700/5750 or 5900/5950 are the good ones. Do NOT get a 5800, they're a flawed design that puts off massive amounts of heat. The newest nVidia chip I've personally seen on the AGP bus is the 6000 series but there have been some 7800GS AGP cards. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce I don't know much about ATi products, haven't used many of them. The main thing is to not have a data bottleneck to the videocard. The fancy 3D and shader effects won't do anything for AP 6.5. When I upgraded (some time back) from a GeForce 3 to that GeForce 4 Ti it was like I had a whole new PC because the rest of the system no longer had to wait on the videocard. I wouldn't sink too much $ into a new or used videocard for that PC. Subscribe to Tiger Direct's e-mail specials and you'll be surprised by all the systems they're offering for $300 or less that'll kick that old Alienware box's butt all around the yard. ;) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
