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On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:47:17 GMT
"KeithM" wrote: "Pedro Duarte" wrote in message ... Hi ! I'm planning to buy a geforce FX5200 but I'm having difficulties on choosing one ... There are fx52000 from asus, msi, xelo and others. Is it so important to choose a brand ? My biggest concert is about the quality of the picture from the card - monitor output. That is : good picture definition, color fidelity. If so, what is the brand I should choose that matches the above quality criteria ? I'm not too much concerned about performance. Thanks With video cards, the chipset is usually more important than the brand, and you won't see picture quality differences between brands with the same chipset. Depends. There are passive devices on the board that can affect waveforms on the analog signals. So you may see differences between brands. Nvidia got a bad rap a while back for poor image quality when it was third-party components that were actually causing the problems on the boards in question. Different brands and models can add extra features, such as more memory, overclocking drivers, games, etc, and of course there will be variations in build quality. Better known brands will also be a bit more expensive. The best way to pick a brand is to check their web site and see what sort of support is offered. Having used both FX5200 nividia and 9600 ATi Radeon cards on the same monitor, I can say that the ATi card definitely has the edge in terms of picture quality. Matrox cards probably have the best picture quality of all, but its splitting hairs at that point. Also, be careful if you intend to use the FX5200 card with an LCD monitor, because there are some known incompatibilities with the DVI output of this chip (but analogue is no problem). Keithm -- -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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Help ... So many brands for nvidea cards
Hi ! I'm planning to buy a geforce FX5200 but I'm having difficulties on choosing one ... There are fx52000 from asus, msi, xelo and others. Is it so important to choose a brand ? My biggest concert is about the quality of the picture from the card - monitor output. That is : good picture definition, color fidelity. If so, what is the brand I should choose that matches the above quality criteria ? I'm not too much concerned about performance. Thanks |
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"Pedro Duarte" wrote in message ... Hi ! I'm planning to buy a geforce FX5200 but I'm having difficulties on choosing one ... There are fx52000 from asus, msi, xelo and others. Is it so important to choose a brand ? My biggest concert is about the quality of the picture from the card - monitor output. That is : good picture definition, color fidelity. If so, what is the brand I should choose that matches the above quality criteria ? I'm not too much concerned about performance. Thanks With video cards, the chipset is usually more important than the brand, and you won't see picture quality differences between brands with the same chipset. Different brands and models can add extra features, such as more memory, overclocking drivers, games, etc, and of course there will be variations in build quality. Better known brands will also be a bit more expensive. The best way to pick a brand is to check their web site and see what sort of support is offered. Having used both FX5200 nividia and 9600 ATi Radeon cards on the same monitor, I can say that the ATi card definitely has the edge in terms of picture quality. Matrox cards probably have the best picture quality of all, but its splitting hairs at that point. Also, be careful if you intend to use the FX5200 card with an LCD monitor, because there are some known incompatibilities with the DVI output of this chip (but analogue is no problem). Keithm |
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"Pedro Duarte" wrote in message
... Hi ! I'm planning to buy a geforce FX5200 but I'm having difficulties on choosing one ... There are fx52000 from asus, msi, xelo and others. Don't get any Asus FX 5200 cards, because all these have 64 bit memory (and some even clocked lower than reference!). In other words, these can be up to HALF THE SPEED of exactly the same cards from another vendor. I thought all Asus products would be quality but it looks like it's still worth doing research about a particular product, I got bured this time (3D isn't that important to me since I am mostly use PC for multimedia/emulation, but it would have been nice to play UT2003 a bit more smoothly). |
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:45:17 +0000, Pedro Duarte
wrote: Hi ! I'm planning to buy a geforce FX5200 but I'm having difficulties on choosing one ... There are fx52000 from asus, msi, xelo and others. Is it so important to choose a brand ? My biggest concert is about the quality of the picture from the card - monitor output. That is : good picture definition, color fidelity. If so, what is the brand I should choose that matches the above quality criteria ? I'm not too much concerned about performance. Since youre not concerned with performance, but I gather dual output - then get the 5200 without a FAN. Many brands offer such cards - While Im not a GAINWaRD lover - they sell a 5200 without a fan for about $65~75.... but I think MSI does as well. If you plan to play todays game, get something faster. -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
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