Need new PC: Parhelia or Ati 9700

[Dogbert]

Only if you use more than one monitor at once.
Otherwise you're wasting your money on features you won't be using.

[Jacco Hoeve]

I am not using more then one monitor ..

Perhaps if you count the TV which I might occasionally use?

[Jacco Hoeve]

Radeon 8500?!!?!??! I want something new.. otherwise I might as well stick with my Matrox G450 ..

[Dogbert]

Then keep it a while longer and get a Radeon 9000 Pro later.
I'm keeping my G400 for the same reason & waiting for prices to drop.

[Jacco Hoeve]

you people confuse me

[Jacco Hoeve]

but but but ..

In the future its either Parhelia or Radeon 9700 for me.. I think ..

[Dogbert]

That's assuming you survive long enough...

[Jacco Hoeve]

What have I done?

Anyway: I am going to use my G400SHLE *shame, its old*

[Dogbert]

With a strong infrastructure (CPU - MEM) your G400 can give little more than you'd expect.

[MagerValp]

Amen - my G400Max performs quite well with my new Athlon XP 1700+. DVD playing, browsing, coding, everything in 2D is smooth. Dungeon Siege and GTA3 play fairly well on the card, but I would certainly like to use something higher than 800x600 and there's no AA...

[Dogbert]

How good does GTA3 look on the G400 ?
Does it look as good as on the PS2 ?

[Greebe]

GTA3 looks fine... it's just not playable for sheit on the G400/450/550... on Parhelia it runs great.

Heya Jacco, long time dude

[Jacco Hoeve]

Hiya Greebe .. long time indeed. I had you on ICQ but I use MSN now.. have that too?

Can you enlighten me on my dilemma here?

[Dogbert]

What fps should I expect with an Athlon 1800, 1GB (333Mhz) ram and a G400 ?

[Jacco Hoeve]

Btw

I ordered this machine (with out a videocard for now):

Gigabyte GA-7VRXP
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
512MB Samsung PC2700 (DDR333)
IBM 80GB thingy HDD
DVD: Slotloading Pioneer
Burner: LiteON 40x
Monitor: IIYAMA VMP501 19"