[Wolves] RE: Wolves digest, Vol 1 #246 - 18 msgs

[Simon Howes]

Hi Ad,
	These days you can get R9500 Pro 128MB versions for as little as
=A3100, if you go to www.theoverclockingstore.co.uk ,e-mail them and say
you know me and I sent you there they might give you a discount (still
buy with them IMO if you don't get a discount, one of the best people
out there).  If it is a high end system have a look at some of the
NVIDIA GF-FX series, I have seen some GeForce FX 5800's around for =
=A3300,
GeForce 4's are a bit outdated (just), if you want to save money go for
a Radeon, performance/price this is the best on Radeons compared to GFs.

Some links..

http://service.futuremark.com/servlet/Index?pageid=3D/orb/componentcompar=
e
&projectType=3D6&cCriteria=3D1

http://www.futuremark.com/community/halloffame/



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Simon Howes (PR Manager)
www.blargoc.co.uk



Message: 18
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:38:23 +0100 (BST)
From: =3D?iso-8859-1?q?Adam=3D20Sweet?=3D <drinky76@yahoo.com>
To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Wolves] Anyone well into graphics cards?
Reply-To: wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk

Alright, this is perhaps more of a hardware question
than a Linux one, but...

I'm building myself a high end workstation cum low end
server and have chosen most of my parts.

The one thats stumped me though is a graphics card.
Thats the one thing I don't know enough about. From
what I can gather ATI Radeon seems to have the edge on
nVidia at the mo, but all those models have me
fried... I remember Leo going on about graphics and
performance once if he's still out there.

What I'm looking at is:
AGP 8x, no more than =A3150 (less would be nice),
doesn't have to be top of the range or even second as
I don't play that many games, bit of Quake 3, UT and
Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Linux compatible
obviously.
I know I would be ok with a TNT2 but you don't put a
Mini engine in Mercedes do you?

So far I'm torn between:
128Mb ATI Radeon 9500 Pro Retail x8 AGP DDR/DVI/TV Out
(newer but fewer extras) and=20
64Mb ATI Radeon 9000 Pro All In Wonder ViVo/TV Out
(older but more stuff built in ie MPEG-2 capture on
fly etc).

Has anyone got any better suggestions? Or places I
should look?

Thanks,
Ad

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http://www.drinky.org.uk

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