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Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 02:47:47 +1300, Mercury wrote: 2d graphics: The best PCI is up with average AGP. 3d graphics: AGP by leaps and bounds. Good PCI graphics is hard to come by. Gosh I remember the day of ISA graphics cards and you could watch windows draw the drop list of a combo box so sloooowly. Chances are the onboard graphic would be good for 2d and it would be expensive to find a PCI card better at 2d. 3d dunno. It is only now that these flash 3D graphics cards have the performance of the old Matrox Millenium II on a PCI card for 2D stuff. The performance of WRAM was still is amazing. You also get a much better picture with those old Matrox cards than you do with these modern 3D cards. The RAMDAC quality is really outstanding. A really good 2D card is a Millenium II in it's ultra rare AGP configuration. I second that. I have solved headache and eye strain problems for a lot of people by switching them over from an nVidia or ATI card or integrated video to a Matrox card. Even a PCI version is more than good enough when you don't need 3D. In addition to the Millenium II, I would also recommend the G400, G450, G550, P650, P750, and Parhelia. I find the quality improvement is impossible to see if your current video card is providing DVI output to a DVI LCD, but if your monitor needs an analog input then Matrox is the only way to go when quality 2D is needed. |
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