12-06-2003, 04:19 PM
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Originally posted by iroc409
unless you're serious about watching tv and doing vid capturing through a coax port on your computer, i wouldn't get an all-in-wonder. adds a lot of price to the vid card.
actually, from what i hear the leadtek wintv capture card thingie works a lot better than ati's tuner/capture, and has an fm reciever built in as well. runs about $50 for the card, and then you're also not tied down to keeping a video card just because it captures video (i.e. upgrade video without losing capture capabilities).
if you're looking for a card that's fairly inexpensive, but will provide good performance for most games and the like (although it's not a 9700 or 9800 pro, fo sho), get the gigabyte radeon 9200se 128mb. plenty of ram, and a decent gpu for most stuff.
the standard version is like $70, the vivo version is around $80. there's also a 64mb version as well that's a little cheaper, don't know where those are right off.
right now, i'd say that's about the best bang for the buck. 9700's are nice, but with a 1.6ghz processor, chances are you're going to max out the cpu before the video. my old original radeon 64mb (dubbed later as the radeon 7000) ran most things like half life and the like at 1600x1200x32 no problems.
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so your saying the 9800 is the way to go?
lol
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