Newer video cards, don't have drivers for older operating systems.
That is where the value of an older card may be, in the
existence of a working driver.
So it all depends on what OS your computer has, as to what
you might be interested in buying.
Another aspect of used cards on Ebay, is the application they're
being used for. Certain models of ATI cards have a relatively
high price, because they happen to make economical BitCoin
calculators. No NVidia cards are suited to that task, the last
time I checked.
Paul
How old it should take to eclipse unified Catalyst drivers, that might
be eclipse post-Windows 98, NT, 2000 & Millennium. Probably for an
unlikely scenario to eclipsing XP, if to include SP1, in marketing
terms for some less than significant exposure to potential sales by
disallowing a product total market validity if such were only by post-
Windows SP1, as if to say, beyond and up to Windows 7. Seems easy
enough to target an unlikely SP1 by updated considerations for such as
Netframe Work, DirectX revisions, if to consider by exposure profiles
that were to rate a support effort for an aftermarket, offhand,
comprising obscurer *NIX variants similarly and all total for ten
percentile cut into predominance evinced by a Windows GUI customer
base.
So much conjecture, as de facto fiat standards provide, not having
researched to determine a support level sufficient to operation, the
onus is one of shifts upon potential cost-return allowances, if and
all that, within a liberal leeway of provisions and enactments over a
larger omnibus, favoring end-consumer protection measures, whereupon
wider reason is exercised and given for a return on monies in such
events the end-user's purchase falls within ill-advised auspices.
Going to Best Buy, of course, circumvents e-commerce altogether, cost
factoring for profits already above and beyond for operation at loss
contingencies. The end user is effectively then within a provisional
time-slatted trial period given free reign and greater resources to
ensure beyond what research lacks, or cost returns potential
disallow, having best empirical firsthand knowledge to employ to ends
through generous return provisions, Best Buy in turn best would bet,
an elective not to return merchandise is not exercised in lieu of a
sum of inconsequent worth to be derived by using that knowledge, a
priori, then to channel by means of cost advantage provided e-
commerce.
Good point, though, Paul. I certainly wouldn't feel any better about
that if running an *NIX or DirectX 8 setup, to summarily be popped-up
in my butt by a graphics resource window immediately informing me my
system is out of compliance. Nor that I wouldn't have mistakenly
dismissed that contingency, either;- shifting backwards over
performance contingencies derived from advanced technological
implementations on the manufacturing platform, to at some earlier
point entry of diminished performance on cost returns, I'm simply
saying, is unacceptable;- within provisions, again, of the user
standpoint from hard and software capable of meeting wider if not
popular marketing demographics that aren't in turn narrowed for niche
enclaves. There seems to be a bit of an undercurrent of resentment
I've imperfectly detected on part of some here for a direction and
measures of contemporary graphic cards.
