J/Stan,
Hey! Hey! It is a Guinea Pig; not a hamster. Yes, I may be 1 or 2
generations behind. I use AMD Barton 2500+'s, an AMD TBird 1400M, and some
Intel P3's. Most of my video cards are nVidia GeForce 4's or nVidia
FX5500's. Yes, not top drawer, but it all seems to do OK for my needs. I am
not into PC-based HD video. I do not even own a wide-screen flat panel
monitor yet. Sheesh! Perhaps it is time to banish myself from this
collective! LOL!
I did read the Anandtech review of the card Stan suggested. While it does
seem to work OK, it does seem to have several power and resource negatives.
They also mentioned driver problems with this card also. I have not been an
ATI user either. The only ATI video anything I have is the on-board 3D Rage
IIC PCI chip in the server-works Intel m/b. And, it is beginning to show
signs of serious age and some video degradation. (This is why I still hoard
old PCI Matrox cards)! But, the server is not the issue at hand. I am
looking for mid-level PCI-X cards now.
When I rebuild my gaming machine, we will talk top drawer cards!
Thank you for the suggestion. I will re-read the review. Perhaps I am just
too new to this new video revolution.
Best,
Duncan
At 01:44 11/18/2008 -0800, you wrote:
Given what he's been running on, I'm sure a hamster on a wheel is faster! ;)
A review on Anandtech for it:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3444
Stan Zaske wrote:
Duncan just wanted to have a video card that was competent for web based
video and this card is obviously overkill for that but the price is very
reasonable. It should even be powerful enough for some casual gaming at
low resolutions.
maccrawj wrote:
Gotta love how Newegg's specs are always flat out wrong or have the
wrong definition.
The GPU is HD4350 but that's the card model, not the actual GPU's model,
LOL!
For accelerated video, you're probably write but I'd be suspect just
based on how low the price is.
