Re: about PCI video cards...

"Bill D." <b.dechat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> bgd wrote:
>> Do not bother with pci vid card. I have same chipset on an
>> overclockable board. The onboard intel video with 1gb ram is as
>> good as it gets(shares system memory). I went and got the biggest
>> baddest pci vid cards i could find(i stubbornly got two of them
>> over a period of a year that i ran with the 82845 chipset, I
>> returned them.). It does not improve anything, In fact some
>> things got worse.... I hope I didnt ruin your optimism... 33 mhz
>> pci is just that as 32 bit is to 32 bit. In other words, big
>> numbers in wrong places don't do a dang thing to help you.
>> For cost of card, swap your stuff onto a board that can (I did!)
>> 8x AGP is very nice :)
>> Barry
>>
>
>
> Interesting. I had the exact opposite result. With a gig of RAM,
> I even found everyday drudge work slow. I actually experienced
> observable delays even when displaying in Windows Explorer. I
> change to the MX 4000 and all that went away. I must admit,
> however, that I am not a "gamer" and have no idea what the results
> would be in that type of world. I just assumed that if I could
> actually notice a difference in real life operations then that
> improvement would carry over into the game world. Guess I was
> wrong. :-)

It's easy to imagine (I did too) that a PCI card with the same name
as a modern AGP card will do gaming well, and then be disappointed.
Then again, a spare video card can be used to drive a secondary
monitor. It wouldn't necessarily be a waste if it's cheap,
especially if the next mainboard accepts it.
















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