Video card results
Sep. 22nd, 2009 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyIf anyone's wondering, I ordered this card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162019
Got it today, installed in the family PC, and it's working splendidly. Turned up the resolution and all of the settings (textures, shadows, mapping, etc) as far as they would go on a few games (Spore (running under Steam), Harry Potter) and they run absolutely smoothly.
$40 after rebate and it will run up to THREE monitors (two DVI and one SVideo), 2 year warranty and runs very quiet.
JoeBob says thumbs up. Good card for general use and casual, non-bleeding-edge gaming.
OTOH, I tried it in my PC and determined that a 1.8 GHz single core AMD64 CPU with 400 MHz RAM still can't come near playing 1080i video. So one of these days, this machine will get replaced (given to the church for the tax writeoff I guess).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162019
Got it today, installed in the family PC, and it's working splendidly. Turned up the resolution and all of the settings (textures, shadows, mapping, etc) as far as they would go on a few games (Spore (running under Steam), Harry Potter) and they run absolutely smoothly.
$40 after rebate and it will run up to THREE monitors (two DVI and one SVideo), 2 year warranty and runs very quiet.
JoeBob says thumbs up. Good card for general use and casual, non-bleeding-edge gaming.
OTOH, I tried it in my PC and determined that a 1.8 GHz single core AMD64 CPU with 400 MHz RAM still can't come near playing 1080i video. So one of these days, this machine will get replaced (given to the church for the tax writeoff I guess).
