Value of integrated graphics on mobo?

"Lem" wrote in message
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Approximately what would it cost to buy a seperate graphics card
offering the same sort of quality as the integrated graphics on a
quality motherboard like:

Asus A7N8X-VM (nVidia)
Asus A7V8X-VM (Via)
Gigabyte 7VN400M (Via)
MSI-K7M2G-L (nVidia)
etc

Graphics cards tend to be rather expensive - I can't find any for less than
$40USD locally. On the web, you can find some cheaper ones, e.g.:
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...roperty&DEPA=0
but you have to be careful that the card will work with your mobo. For
example, the Sapphire listed on the above page is rated at 1.5V (as per
users' reviews) and thus will not work in all mobos. At a price point below
$30 or so, you're probably dealing with similar quality as most integrated
video.

Therefore, integrated video is a bargain if you're not a gamer, etc. Either
way, you can upgrade with a nice AGP card, then when your mobo needs
upgrading, you take the AGP card with you to the new mobo and sell/use the
old mobo w/ integrated video as part of a cheap bargain system.

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:43:02 +0100, Lem wrote:

Approximately what would it cost to buy a seperate graphics card
offering the same sort of quality as the integrated graphics on a
quality motherboard like:

Asus A7N8X-VM (nVidia)
Asus A7V8X-VM (Via)
Gigabyte 7VN400M (Via)
MSI-K7M2G-L (nVidia)
etc

the onboard gfx cards are cheap, maybe $50 to get equivalent performance. You
are better off with a separate card.

Ken Oaf wrote:

the onboard gfx cards are cheap, maybe $50 to get equivalent
performance. You are better off with a separate card.

Do any graphics cards these days use the PCI slot?

If then then if I get an old PCI graphics, is it likely to be any
good?

I posted a decent card with 32 mb of memory that is available in PCI and AGP
for 22.00!

Wayne


"Max" wrote in message
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Ken Oaf wrote:

the onboard gfx cards are cheap, maybe $50 to get equivalent
performance. You are better off with a separate card.

Do any graphics cards these days use the PCI slot?

If then then if I get an old PCI graphics, is it likely to be any
good?

or you could get what I got my brother....the PCI version of the FX5200
128MB(maybe 64, but I think 128...)...works pretty darn good for a PCI card.
I was actually quite surprised. Enjoy.


"wayne" wrote in message
news:8Kwdc.106453$K91.303887@attbi_s02...
I posted a decent card with 32 mb of memory that is available in PCI and
AGP
for 22.00!

Wayne


"Max" wrote in message
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Ken Oaf wrote:

the onboard gfx cards are cheap, maybe $50 to get equivalent
performance. You are better off with a separate card.

Do any graphics cards these days use the PCI slot?

If then then if I get an old PCI graphics, is it likely to be any
good?

On 4/9/2004 9:00 AM Filip brightened our day with:

or you could get what I got my brother....the PCI version of the FX5200
128MB(maybe 64, but I think 128...)...works pretty darn good for a PCI card.
I was actually quite surprised. Enjoy.




I have a friend who just got a PCI Radeon 9200 for his 900 MHz Celeron,
it actually plays Call of Duty, Max Payne2... pretty well, he just had
the crappy onboard intel graphics before which was horrible. The most
important thing to look for in one of those cards is memory bandwidth,
128 bit is leaps and bounds better than 64 bit. This is completely
different from the megabytes of RAM on the card. Some of these cheaper
cards come with up to 256 Mb of RAM, that is almost always a gimmick.
Fast 64 Mb RAM on 128 bit bus is going to be a lot better than slow 128
Mb RAM on a 64 bit bus.

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