Graphics Card Suggestions

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It is also important to know if you plan on installing an HDTV tuner in your
PC and what type of display(s) and connections you plan on having.
 
Cool, with AGP you will have some options.
Another key question is what do you want to do with Vista?
1) gamer
2) Photography/video
3) Office dweller(spreadsheets/email/web/word, etc)
4) Designer

The reason those matter is...
A gamer will want a fast card with tons of memory, a photographer/video guy
is going to want a card that can drive large monitor(multiple monitors) in
photo realistic colors, an office dweller would want a card that can hold an
image REAL steady and produce crisp text on a good monitor, and a
designer(web or graphics) will have similar needs to photo/video and office
people.

Luckily many cards today can do much or most of these.

What kind of monitor do you have? What resolution is it capable of?
 
video/office
monitor envision 7100: 1280 x 1024


Zapper said:
Cool, with AGP you will have some options.
Another key question is what do you want to do with Vista?
1) gamer
2) Photography/video
3) Office dweller(spreadsheets/email/web/word, etc)
4) Designer

The reason those matter is...
A gamer will want a fast card with tons of memory, a photographer/video guy
is going to want a card that can drive large monitor(multiple monitors) in
photo realistic colors, an office dweller would want a card that can hold an
image REAL steady and produce crisp text on a good monitor, and a
designer(web or graphics) will have similar needs to photo/video and office
people.

Luckily many cards today can do much or most of these.

What kind of monitor do you have? What resolution is it capable of?
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Unless he tells us what the source of his Video is it is hard to tell what
card to recommend since if he has a 720p or 1080i video source then a low
memory bandwidth card would drop frames trying to process it causing
stuttering especially since 6600 cards come with diffeerent memory
bandwidths since each 6600 card manufacturer is allowed to pick his own
memory type (DDR or DDR2) and memory speed and therfore only the top end
6600 cards can handle 1080i video and they cost just as much as 6600GT cards
which have better de-interlacing motion compensation logic then the basic
6600 cards.
 
Well, he did tell us that it was an office style machine at 1280x1024.

But, that said, my fairly entry level 6600 runs flawlessly on my 37"
1920x1080p (not i) LCD panel with both 720p and 1080i content. I just like
1080i better :)

Tom
 
I am confused the OP said Video and unless he difined what that means I
don't see how any of us draw conclusions as to where the video is coming
from. If any of you think you know what his source is without his saying
please state it in order that I won't in the future come to the conclusion
that it is unknown.
 
We read his reply.....


JW said:
I am confused the OP said Video and unless he difined what that means I
don't see how any of us draw conclusions as to where the video is coming
from. If any of you think you know what his source is without his saying
please state it in order that I won't in the future come to the conclusion
that it is unknown.
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If ;you plan to install an HDTV tuner in order to receive local digital
broadcasts Over The Air with an antenna you will need a tuner such as an
NVIDIA 6600GT for which there is an AGP version in order to get good PQ
without dropping frames when watching a HD program.
I believe the ATI X600 also has an AGP version. I don't know of any PCI
tuners that will meet the requirements of high memory bandwidth and DX9
support required for HD program processing.

Donald said:
Can you tel me more about HDTV turner and suggest pci cards also?
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