On 01/24/2009 12:20 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
I posted this under the original thread, but since there were no
responses I figured that most readers had already determined that they
could not help with that problem and so did not read the post. Since
this is a totally different track to solving my problem I felt a new
subject was in order.
Florian Kulzer wrote:
> I would probably be tempted to buy an nvidia or ati card and dump the
> sis driver.
I don't think that I have actually purchased a video card separate from
the PC, or motherboard since my TRS-8- Model III died and I bought my
first PC compatible. That would have been about 26 years ago. Getting
a new board might not be that bad of an idea, but, as I have not
recently had to make such a purchase I have not looked into what is good,
bad, works with Linux, etc. I am not looking to spend a lot of money
and I don't need a fancy gamers board. I just need something that does
the job. I noticed that Fry's has several inexpensive EVGA boards,
specifically a 7200GS w/128MB or 256MB PCI-Express and an 8400GS w/512MB
I'd go with the 7200GS, because (a) I know it works well, and (b)
nvidia played games with some of the 8400 naming conventions. IOW,
some weren't as fast as the 7xxx cards.
Also, it's more likely that you can get passively-cooled 7xxx cards.
for only $10.00 more. I don't mind the extra $10 for double to
quadruple the memory and a faster core, but is this a good board with
solid support? With rebates, these boards are going for $29.99 to
$39.99. Are there better boards that can be had for similar prices? Is
there a different line that I should look into? I don't want to start
any religious wars over what is the best graphics card. I just need a
solid card that works and doesn't have issues like the onboard Sis
chips seem to have.
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