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    Video Cards

    Ok i'm going to put together a computer for a friend of mine and I'm torn for going with either a ATI or Nvidia GF card for him. So my question is that what should I get him in his case? Hes going to get a 17 inch montior and mostly plays older games like USAF and M1TP2 on it. I'm not sure how good the ATI drivers are with older games and I'm assuming that an Nvidia card would be better...so which way should I go to keep my heartache to a minum?
    Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?
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    The eternal question...

    I´d personally go for ATI. For what I´ve been reading, their drivers are improving, and 3D is near Geforce 3 standards. There are a couple of bonuses (very important ones, actually): 2D image is excellent and DVD playback is even better than that.

    Oh... and more importantly...ATI cards are way cooler



    P.S. I remembered right now that a friend of mine has been having trouble in playing older games on his Geforce 2 MX400 64Mb. Quake 2 doesn´t run at all, for example. There are so many different versions of detonators you have to install one version for each game you want to play. LOL
    Last edited by Alec; 30 November 2001, 09:17.

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    • #3
      Additionally, all the Detonator XP series drivers (2x.xx) crash in Windows XP on VIA systems. Typical shit.

      - Gurm

      P.S. But don't think the Radeons are all perfect, either.

      P.P.S. Best Buy has GF3 Ti200's for $150.
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      • #4
        I'm gonna get him a Sis735 board...I got one for my GF with a Duron 950 and its pretty nice....no problems what so ever with it

        Scott
        Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Gurm
          Additionally, all the Detonator XP series drivers (2x.xx) crash in Windows XP on VIA systems. Typical shit.

          - Gurm
          Not really sure what's worst there: nVidia, WinXP or VIA
          "That's right fool! Now I'm a flying talking donkey!"

          P4 2.66, 512 mb PC2700, ATI Radeon 9000, Seagate Barracude IV 80 gb, Acer Al 732 17" TFT

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          • #6
            WinXP enforces the new stricter rules about what you can and cannot do from inside a driver (like grab up system memory without asking for it nicely).

            Hence, it bluescreens where Win2k did not.

            If hardware manufacturers would get off their asses and rewrite their drivers correctly...

            Anyway, nVidia has "leaked" a 23.xx driver that seems to fix the crashing.

            - Gurm
            The Internet - where men are men, women are men, and teenage girls are FBI agents!

            I'm the least you could do
            If only life were as easy as you
            I'm the least you could do, oh yeah
            If only life were as easy as you
            I would still get screwed

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            • #7
              I'm gonna get him a Sis735 board...I got one for my GF with a Duron 950 and its pretty nice....no problems what so ever with it
              SIS seems to be on the good road now... they even have a new gfx card out named EVIL SAM!

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