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ATI or NVIDIA Best Text?
Gentlemen,
I am assembling a PC for a Visually Impaired person and need to select an ATI or a NVIDIA video card for best text display. A LCD monitor will be used set at 800 x 600 for optimum legibility in this situation. In this setup what would be an ideal amount of memory on the card ….128 or 256 Megs? T I A, Alvin |
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ATI or NVIDIA Best Text?
Arnold Packer wrote:
Gentlemen, I am assembling a PC for a Visually Impaired person and need to select an ATI or a NVIDIA video card for best text display. A LCD monitor will be used set at 800 x 600 for optimum legibility in this situation. In this setup what would be an ideal amount of memory on the card ….128 or 256 Megs? T I A, Alvin I doubt brand or dedicated video memory makes ANY difference unless the computer is used for editing video or other graphics intensive tasks like 3D games or satellite view programs like Google Earth and the 3D mode of Windows Live Search. For things like office productivity, email, news reading and MOST web browsing built in motherboard video would work just as well. |
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Arnold Packer wrote:
Gentlemen, I am assembling a PC for a Visually Impaired person and need to select an ATI or a NVIDIA video card for best text display. A LCD monitor will be used set at 800 x 600 for optimum legibility in this situation. In this setup what would be an ideal amount of memory on the card ..128 or 256 Megs? T I A, Alvin Pretty much any card or on-board graphics will suffice. If you're going to use an LCD monitor that *isn't* set at it's native resolution it's going to be blurry anyway. You need something like my bedroom TV. It's a 20" (3:4) Phillips with a DVI input and a native resolution of 800 x 600. Most large panels have a high resolution and can look crap if set to anything else. They work on a pixel-by-pixel system, unlike a CRT. Rather than say an arbitrary 800 x 600 I would consider setting the resoltution to half of what the native spec is. (You may need software to do this, the word "powerstrip" comes to mind) At least that way, instead of having 'confused' pixels that the screen doen't really know whether to have on or off you'll have blocks of four pixels all working in harmony. In the above scenario, my 19", 1280 x 1024 LCD would become 640 x 512 and would be quite clear. My 19" has a relatively low resolution for it's size and, with a visually impaired person, perhaps you'll be getting a larger monitor? Try halving the native resolution is my suggestion. Good luck. -- Shaun. |
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You can run 800 x 600 at 16 bit color with 1 MB memory; a typical configuration in about 1995. More memory is needed for higher resolution or color depth. A lot more memory is needed for 3D video games. Arnold Packer wrote: Gentlemen, I am assembling a PC for a Visually Impaired person and need to select an ATI or a NVIDIA video card for best text display. A LCD monitor will be used set at 800 x 600 for optimum legibility in this situation. In this setup what would be an ideal amount of memory on the card ….128 or 256 Megs? T I A, Alvin -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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"Arnold Packer" wrote in message
... Gentlemen, I am assembling a PC for a Visually Impaired person and need to select an ATI or a NVIDIA video card for best text display. A LCD monitor will be used set at 800 x 600 for optimum legibility in this situation. In this setup what would be an ideal amount of memory on the card ..128 or 256 Megs? You will only need that much graphics card RAM for running games. Like someone else said, you would only need about 2MB of graphics card RAM to run windows. You didn't mention operating system, but Windows Vista benefits from a more powerful graphics card, but anything recent will be powerful enough. If the PC is not for games, then on-board graphics (built into a motherboard) will be fine and can be configured to take just 2MB of system RAM. As someone else pointed out an LCD monitor will be clearest at the native resolution. To get bigger text, you should change the visual options in windows. Right click on the desktop and choose Properties. On the Appearance tab, you will find settings to make text and boxes bigger. This means the font size is increased, but the screen resolution is left alone, so the screen pixels will be sharp and the text will be clearer than running 'normal' font sizes at 800x600. |
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ATI or NVIDIA Best Text?
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 12:38:40 +1200, "~misfit~"
wrote: Arnold Packer wrote: Gentlemen, I am assembling a PC for a Visually Impaired person and need to select an ATI or a NVIDIA video card for best text display. A LCD monitor will be used set at 800 x 600 for optimum legibility in this situation. In this setup what would be an ideal amount of memory on the card ..128 or 256 Megs? T I A, Alvin Pretty much any card or on-board graphics will suffice. If you're going to use an LCD monitor that *isn't* set at it's native resolution it's going to be blurry anyway. You need something like my bedroom TV. It's a 20" (3:4) Phillips with a DVI input and a native resolution of 800 x 600. Most large panels have a high resolution and can look crap if set to anything else. They work on a pixel-by-pixel system, unlike a CRT. This is the right answer. Native resolution should be used and native resolution of a typical computer LCD monitor is going to be too small so an LCD TV running at native resolution is the best answer. At a mere 800x600, DVI probably won't make much difference but it would still tend to be the better choice. Now that LCD TV prices have continued to drop, a larger than 20" LCD TV would be even better... and if large enough it need not even be set to 800x600 anymore so long as it's still at the native resolution. |
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ATI or NVIDIA Best Text?
Arnold Packer wrote:
I am assembling a PC for a Visually Impaired person and need to select an ATI or a NVIDIA video card for best text display. A LCD monitor will be used set at 800 x 600 for optimum legibility in this situation. In this setup what would be an ideal amount of memory on the card ….128 or 256 Megs? In that case 128 meg will be just fine. -- http://www.bootdisk.com/ |
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