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graphics card upgrade and Fonts
I recently got a Dell 1905 FP LCD monitor which I like alot. My Gateway
Select 1000 pc, which I bought 4 yrs ago, came with an Nvidia Vanta video card, with only 16mb on board.. By today's standards, its a dinosaur. But since the most graphics intense thing I do is occasionally download and watch films or sporting events, its been ok. Heres what I dont understand. I bought a GeForce FX5200 128mb Nvidia video card to try out with the new monitor, replacing the primitive Nvidia Vanta card. And, I found that, after installing the drivers, the Fonts that I saw on the screen seemed incredibly clear and crisp, compared to what the Vanta video card let me see. I fully expected the FX5200 card to play games better, and maybe even to display films and dvds better.. But why would standard Fonts appear so much sharper and clearer ? ... I had made no changes to the properties accessible via 'desktop rt click/properties/...' appearance, effects, settings, etc, etc (I have windows ME). I switched back and forth between cards several times just to make sure my eyes werent deceiving me, and there is no doubt that its a world of difference in the font clarity.. its not that they are blurry or hard to read with the older Vanta card... Its just that with the FX5200 card, they appear much clearer.. Like a real step up. Is it that the drivers for the newer more powerful card allow a different rendering of the same fonts, so as to make them appear better? I think alot of people who buy better video cards for game playing purposes, might be surprised at this added bonus. Has anybody else experienced this with a video card upgrade? paul |
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Were you running both cards at the monitors native resolution? I am not sure
if 16mb of video ram is enough to drive that monitor at it's native resolution (1280x1024?). Beyond that it has been my observation that the Vanta series of cards had rather poor 2D display capabilities. "Boostm3" wrote in message news I recently got a Dell 1905 FP LCD monitor which I like alot. My Gateway Select 1000 pc, which I bought 4 yrs ago, came with an Nvidia Vanta video card, with only 16mb on board.. By today's standards, its a dinosaur. But since the most graphics intense thing I do is occasionally download and watch films or sporting events, its been ok. Heres what I dont understand. I bought a GeForce FX5200 128mb Nvidia video card to try out with the new monitor, replacing the primitive Nvidia Vanta card. And, I found that, after installing the drivers, the Fonts that I saw on the screen seemed incredibly clear and crisp, compared to what the Vanta video card let me see. I fully expected the FX5200 card to play games better, and maybe even to display films and dvds better.. But why would standard Fonts appear so much sharper and clearer ? ... I had made no changes to the properties accessible via 'desktop rt click/properties/...' appearance, effects, settings, etc, etc (I have windows ME). I switched back and forth between cards several times just to make sure my eyes werent deceiving me, and there is no doubt that its a world of difference in the font clarity.. its not that they are blurry or hard to read with the older Vanta card... Its just that with the FX5200 card, they appear much clearer.. Like a real step up. Is it that the drivers for the newer more powerful card allow a different rendering of the same fonts, so as to make them appear better? I think alot of people who buy better video cards for game playing purposes, might be surprised at this added bonus. Has anybody else experienced this with a video card upgrade? paul |
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You should be fine once you get the new PSU in there. I had a Select 1200
that I ran a GeForce 4 Ti4600 and later a Radeon 9700 Pro with no problems. "Boostm3" wrote in message ... Yes.. both cards supported 1280x1024, the monitor's native resolution. So thats not it. I have the vanta card in there now because the FX5200 card after a few hrs of use, turns my monitor off.. Kind of a crash of sorts, due, I think to the fact that my gateway power supply's fan is dead.. So I ordered a new power supply and hopefully, once I get that installed, Ill be able to re install my FX5200 card for permanent use.. IT just looks so much better than the vanta, It will allow me to get another couple yrs use of this 1 mhz machine. "Tweek" wrote in message news:nt1hf.609$mJ2.141@trnddc02... Were you running both cards at the monitors native resolution? I am not sure if 16mb of video ram is enough to drive that monitor at it's native resolution (1280x1024?). Beyond that it has been my observation that the Vanta series of cards had rather poor 2D display capabilities. "Boostm3" wrote in message news I recently got a Dell 1905 FP LCD monitor which I like alot. My Gateway Select 1000 pc, which I bought 4 yrs ago, came with an Nvidia Vanta video card, with only 16mb on board.. By today's standards, its a dinosaur. But since the most graphics intense thing I do is occasionally download and watch films or sporting events, its been ok. Heres what I dont understand. I bought a GeForce FX5200 128mb Nvidia video card to try out with the new monitor, replacing the primitive Nvidia Vanta card. And, I found that, after installing the drivers, the Fonts that I saw on the screen seemed incredibly clear and crisp, compared to what the Vanta video card let me see. I fully expected the FX5200 card to play games better, and maybe even to display films and dvds better.. But why would standard Fonts appear so much sharper and clearer ? ... I had made no changes to the properties accessible via 'desktop rt click/properties/...' appearance, effects, settings, etc, etc (I have windows ME). I switched back and forth between cards several times just to make sure my eyes werent deceiving me, and there is no doubt that its a world of difference in the font clarity.. its not that they are blurry or hard to read with the older Vanta card... Its just that with the FX5200 card, they appear much clearer.. Like a real step up. Is it that the drivers for the newer more powerful card allow a different rendering of the same fonts, so as to make them appear better? I think alot of people who buy better video cards for game playing purposes, might be surprised at this added bonus. Has anybody else experienced this with a video card upgrade? paul |
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Listen to this. I got my new powersupply for my gateway 1000 pc last
night.. As you recall, the fan on the gateway power supply had seized up solid, and with the GeForce FX 5200 video card with 128mb on board, it ran really hot, and I thought thats why after the first 3 hrs of use, the pc would crash, sending the monitor into its amber state, only recoverable with a hard reboot. The powersupply I used was a step up to 300 watts, with dual fans, and was listed as a direct replacement for my gateway model power supply. And it was.. it worked great, and both fans really cooled the case.. But, the same damn thing happened. With the eVga GeForce FX 5200 card in there, it crashed after about 3 hrs, and then on hard reboot, would crash every half hour or less after that, til I guess everything had a chance to cool down. Keep in mind that Im back using the stock Nvidia Vanta card with just 16mb on board, and its never done this.. Always runs cool to the touch also. So, Im sending the eVga GeForce fx 5200 card back to the vendor, and I ordered a slightly different variation of the same card from another vendor. This time, the maker was not eVga, but listed as GeForce itself. Same fx 5200 nvidia designation though. . Im thinking maybe there was some fault deep in the card I was using. Or maybe the heat sink config wasnt enough. .I dont know.. All I know is Gateway lists this card as a compatible replacement for my pc, and they even sell something designated as the same fx 5200 for my pc! Any other ideas what might have caused this strange behavior? Paul "Tweek" wrote in message news:tWNhf.308$%w2.174@trnddc07... You should be fine once you get the new PSU in there. I had a Select 1200 that I ran a GeForce 4 Ti4600 and later a Radeon 9700 Pro with no problems. "Boostm3" wrote in message ... Yes.. both cards supported 1280x1024, the monitor's native resolution. So thats not it. I have the vanta card in there now because the FX5200 card after a few hrs of use, turns my monitor off.. Kind of a crash of sorts, due, I think to the fact that my gateway power supply's fan is dead.. So I ordered a new power supply and hopefully, once I get that installed, Ill be able to re install my FX5200 card for permanent use.. IT just looks so much better than the vanta, It will allow me to get another couple yrs use of this 1 mhz machine. "Tweek" wrote in message news:nt1hf.609$mJ2.141@trnddc02... Were you running both cards at the monitors native resolution? I am not sure if 16mb of video ram is enough to drive that monitor at it's native resolution (1280x1024?). Beyond that it has been my observation that the Vanta series of cards had rather poor 2D display capabilities. "Boostm3" wrote in message news I recently got a Dell 1905 FP LCD monitor which I like alot. My Gateway Select 1000 pc, which I bought 4 yrs ago, came with an Nvidia Vanta video card, with only 16mb on board.. By today's standards, its a dinosaur. But since the most graphics intense thing I do is occasionally download and watch films or sporting events, its been ok. Heres what I dont understand. I bought a GeForce FX5200 128mb Nvidia video card to try out with the new monitor, replacing the primitive Nvidia Vanta card. And, I found that, after installing the drivers, the Fonts that I saw on the screen seemed incredibly clear and crisp, compared to what the Vanta video card let me see. I fully expected the FX5200 card to play games better, and maybe even to display films and dvds better.. But why would standard Fonts appear so much sharper and clearer ? ... I had made no changes to the properties accessible via 'desktop rt click/properties/...' appearance, effects, settings, etc, etc (I have windows ME). I switched back and forth between cards several times just to make sure my eyes werent deceiving me, and there is no doubt that its a world of difference in the font clarity.. its not that they are blurry or hard to read with the older Vanta card... Its just that with the FX5200 card, they appear much clearer.. Like a real step up. Is it that the drivers for the newer more powerful card allow a different rendering of the same fonts, so as to make them appear better? I think alot of people who buy better video cards for game playing purposes, might be surprised at this added bonus. Has anybody else experienced this with a video card upgrade? paul |
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Double check the motherboard and make sure you don't have any bulging or
leaking capacitors. The Fx5200 doesn't draw a ton of power but it may be enough to bring a capacitor problem out in the open whereas your Vanta card doesn't. "Boostm3" wrote in message ... Listen to this. I got my new powersupply for my gateway 1000 pc last night.. As you recall, the fan on the gateway power supply had seized up solid, and with the GeForce FX 5200 video card with 128mb on board, it ran really hot, and I thought thats why after the first 3 hrs of use, the pc would crash, sending the monitor into its amber state, only recoverable with a hard reboot. The powersupply I used was a step up to 300 watts, with dual fans, and was listed as a direct replacement for my gateway model power supply. And it was.. it worked great, and both fans really cooled the case.. But, the same damn thing happened. With the eVga GeForce FX 5200 card in there, it crashed after about 3 hrs, and then on hard reboot, would crash every half hour or less after that, til I guess everything had a chance to cool down. Keep in mind that Im back using the stock Nvidia Vanta card with just 16mb on board, and its never done this.. Always runs cool to the touch also. So, Im sending the eVga GeForce fx 5200 card back to the vendor, and I ordered a slightly different variation of the same card from another vendor. This time, the maker was not eVga, but listed as GeForce itself. Same fx 5200 nvidia designation though. . Im thinking maybe there was some fault deep in the card I was using. Or maybe the heat sink config wasnt enough. .I dont know.. All I know is Gateway lists this card as a compatible replacement for my pc, and they even sell something designated as the same fx 5200 for my pc! Any other ideas what might have caused this strange behavior? Paul "Tweek" wrote in message news:tWNhf.308$%w2.174@trnddc07... You should be fine once you get the new PSU in there. I had a Select 1200 that I ran a GeForce 4 Ti4600 and later a Radeon 9700 Pro with no problems. "Boostm3" wrote in message ... Yes.. both cards supported 1280x1024, the monitor's native resolution. So thats not it. I have the vanta card in there now because the FX5200 card after a few hrs of use, turns my monitor off.. Kind of a crash of sorts, due, I think to the fact that my gateway power supply's fan is dead.. So I ordered a new power supply and hopefully, once I get that installed, Ill be able to re install my FX5200 card for permanent use.. IT just looks so much better than the vanta, It will allow me to get another couple yrs use of this 1 mhz machine. "Tweek" wrote in message news:nt1hf.609$mJ2.141@trnddc02... Were you running both cards at the monitors native resolution? I am not sure if 16mb of video ram is enough to drive that monitor at it's native resolution (1280x1024?). Beyond that it has been my observation that the Vanta series of cards had rather poor 2D display capabilities. "Boostm3" wrote in message news I recently got a Dell 1905 FP LCD monitor which I like alot. My Gateway Select 1000 pc, which I bought 4 yrs ago, came with an Nvidia Vanta video card, with only 16mb on board.. By today's standards, its a dinosaur. But since the most graphics intense thing I do is occasionally download and watch films or sporting events, its been ok. Heres what I dont understand. I bought a GeForce FX5200 128mb Nvidia video card to try out with the new monitor, replacing the primitive Nvidia Vanta card. And, I found that, after installing the drivers, the Fonts that I saw on the screen seemed incredibly clear and crisp, compared to what the Vanta video card let me see. I fully expected the FX5200 card to play games better, and maybe even to display films and dvds better.. But why would standard Fonts appear so much sharper and clearer ? ... I had made no changes to the properties accessible via 'desktop rt click/properties/...' appearance, effects, settings, etc, etc (I have windows ME). I switched back and forth between cards several times just to make sure my eyes werent deceiving me, and there is no doubt that its a world of difference in the font clarity.. its not that they are blurry or hard to read with the older Vanta card... Its just that with the FX5200 card, they appear much clearer.. Like a real step up. Is it that the drivers for the newer more powerful card allow a different rendering of the same fonts, so as to make them appear better? I think alot of people who buy better video cards for game playing purposes, might be surprised at this added bonus. Has anybody else experienced this with a video card upgrade? paul |
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Tweek,
Capacitor seem to look 'normal', to my eyes, anyway. What about this. The pc came with bios settings that were right for the 16mb Nvidia Vanta card... Theres a Bios setting called AGP Aperture size. It was set for 64mb. Im starting to play with that a little. Ive reset it to 256mb.. thats how much ram is on this Fx 5200 card they sent me, although I asked for the 128mb card. Whatever, if I can get the 256 mb fx 5200 to work, Ill surely keep it. Since resetting the bios agp aperture size to 256mb, it hasnt crashed yet, and its been on twice as long as it was when it crashed the first time I put the card in with the lower aperture bios setting.. Thats no guarantee Ill be singing the same tune tomorrow, or even later on tonight. But just tell me.. am I barking up a wrong tree here? Is it even Plausible that this setting, if not appropriate for my video card ram size, could be causing the random crash of the system? Paul "Tweek" wrote in message news:1FOif.5887$AB2.3920@trnddc08... Double check the motherboard and make sure you don't have any bulging or leaking capacitors. The Fx5200 doesn't draw a ton of power but it may be enough to bring a capacitor problem out in the open whereas your Vanta card doesn't. "Boostm3" wrote in message ... Listen to this. I got my new powersupply for my gateway 1000 pc last night.. As you recall, the fan on the gateway power supply had seized up solid, and with the GeForce FX 5200 video card with 128mb on board, it ran really hot, and I thought thats why after the first 3 hrs of use, the pc would crash, sending the monitor into its amber state, only recoverable with a hard reboot. The powersupply I used was a step up to 300 watts, with dual fans, and was listed as a direct replacement for my gateway model power supply. And it was.. it worked great, and both fans really cooled the case.. But, the same damn thing happened. With the eVga GeForce FX 5200 card in there, it crashed after about 3 hrs, and then on hard reboot, would crash every half hour or less after that, til I guess everything had a chance to cool down. Keep in mind that Im back using the stock Nvidia Vanta card with just 16mb on board, and its never done this.. Always runs cool to the touch also. So, Im sending the eVga GeForce fx 5200 card back to the vendor, and I ordered a slightly different variation of the same card from another vendor. This time, the maker was not eVga, but listed as GeForce itself. Same fx 5200 nvidia designation though. . Im thinking maybe there was some fault deep in the card I was using. Or maybe the heat sink config wasnt enough. .I dont know.. All I know is Gateway lists this card as a compatible replacement for my pc, and they even sell something designated as the same fx 5200 for my pc! Any other ideas what might have caused this strange behavior? Paul "Tweek" wrote in message news:tWNhf.308$%w2.174@trnddc07... You should be fine once you get the new PSU in there. I had a Select 1200 that I ran a GeForce 4 Ti4600 and later a Radeon 9700 Pro with no problems. "Boostm3" wrote in message ... Yes.. both cards supported 1280x1024, the monitor's native resolution. So thats not it. I have the vanta card in there now because the FX5200 card after a few hrs of use, turns my monitor off.. Kind of a crash of sorts, due, I think to the fact that my gateway power supply's fan is dead.. So I ordered a new power supply and hopefully, once I get that installed, Ill be able to re install my FX5200 card for permanent use.. IT just looks so much better than the vanta, It will allow me to get another couple yrs use of this 1 mhz machine. "Tweek" wrote in message news:nt1hf.609$mJ2.141@trnddc02... Were you running both cards at the monitors native resolution? I am not sure if 16mb of video ram is enough to drive that monitor at it's native resolution (1280x1024?). Beyond that it has been my observation that the Vanta series of cards had rather poor 2D display capabilities. "Boostm3" wrote in message news I recently got a Dell 1905 FP LCD monitor which I like alot. My Gateway Select 1000 pc, which I bought 4 yrs ago, came with an Nvidia Vanta video card, with only 16mb on board.. By today's standards, its a dinosaur. But since the most graphics intense thing I do is occasionally download and watch films or sporting events, its been ok. Heres what I dont understand. I bought a GeForce FX5200 128mb Nvidia video card to try out with the new monitor, replacing the primitive Nvidia Vanta card. And, I found that, after installing the drivers, the Fonts that I saw on the screen seemed incredibly clear and crisp, compared to what the Vanta video card let me see. I fully expected the FX5200 card to play games better, and maybe even to display films and dvds better.. But why would standard Fonts appear so much sharper and clearer ? ... I had made no changes to the properties accessible via 'desktop rt click/properties/...' appearance, effects, settings, etc, etc (I have windows ME). I switched back and forth between cards several times just to make sure my eyes werent deceiving me, and there is no doubt that its a world of difference in the font clarity.. its not that they are blurry or hard to read with the older Vanta card... Its just that with the FX5200 card, they appear much clearer.. Like a real step up. Is it that the drivers for the newer more powerful card allow a different rendering of the same fonts, so as to make them appear better? I think alot of people who buy better video cards for game playing purposes, might be surprised at this added bonus. Has anybody else experienced this with a video card upgrade? paul |
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Forget my earlier post.. It just crashed again... For some reason, looks
like IM stuck running that 16mb nvidia Vanta card. ITs a shame, considering Gateway sells the FX 5200 as an upgrade for my pc... I didnt buy it from them though, cause theyre selling it for only about 2.5 times what I bought it for! Paul "Tweek" wrote in message news:1FOif.5887$AB2.3920@trnddc08... Double check the motherboard and make sure you don't have any bulging or leaking capacitors. The Fx5200 doesn't draw a ton of power but it may be enough to bring a capacitor problem out in the open whereas your Vanta card doesn't. "Boostm3" wrote in message ... Listen to this. I got my new powersupply for my gateway 1000 pc last night.. As you recall, the fan on the gateway power supply had seized up solid, and with the GeForce FX 5200 video card with 128mb on board, it ran really hot, and I thought thats why after the first 3 hrs of use, the pc would crash, sending the monitor into its amber state, only recoverable with a hard reboot. The powersupply I used was a step up to 300 watts, with dual fans, and was listed as a direct replacement for my gateway model power supply. And it was.. it worked great, and both fans really cooled the case.. But, the same damn thing happened. With the eVga GeForce FX 5200 card in there, it crashed after about 3 hrs, and then on hard reboot, would crash every half hour or less after that, til I guess everything had a chance to cool down. Keep in mind that Im back using the stock Nvidia Vanta card with just 16mb on board, and its never done this.. Always runs cool to the touch also. So, Im sending the eVga GeForce fx 5200 card back to the vendor, and I ordered a slightly different variation of the same card from another vendor. This time, the maker was not eVga, but listed as GeForce itself. Same fx 5200 nvidia designation though. . Im thinking maybe there was some fault deep in the card I was using. Or maybe the heat sink config wasnt enough. .I dont know.. All I know is Gateway lists this card as a compatible replacement for my pc, and they even sell something designated as the same fx 5200 for my pc! Any other ideas what might have caused this strange behavior? Paul "Tweek" wrote in message news:tWNhf.308$%w2.174@trnddc07... You should be fine once you get the new PSU in there. I had a Select 1200 that I ran a GeForce 4 Ti4600 and later a Radeon 9700 Pro with no problems. "Boostm3" wrote in message ... Yes.. both cards supported 1280x1024, the monitor's native resolution. So thats not it. I have the vanta card in there now because the FX5200 card after a few hrs of use, turns my monitor off.. Kind of a crash of sorts, due, I think to the fact that my gateway power supply's fan is dead.. So I ordered a new power supply and hopefully, once I get that installed, Ill be able to re install my FX5200 card for permanent use.. IT just looks so much better than the vanta, It will allow me to get another couple yrs use of this 1 mhz machine. "Tweek" wrote in message news:nt1hf.609$mJ2.141@trnddc02... Were you running both cards at the monitors native resolution? I am not sure if 16mb of video ram is enough to drive that monitor at it's native resolution (1280x1024?). Beyond that it has been my observation that the Vanta series of cards had rather poor 2D display capabilities. "Boostm3" wrote in message news I recently got a Dell 1905 FP LCD monitor which I like alot. My Gateway Select 1000 pc, which I bought 4 yrs ago, came with an Nvidia Vanta video card, with only 16mb on board.. By today's standards, its a dinosaur. But since the most graphics intense thing I do is occasionally download and watch films or sporting events, its been ok. Heres what I dont understand. I bought a GeForce FX5200 128mb Nvidia video card to try out with the new monitor, replacing the primitive Nvidia Vanta card. And, I found that, after installing the drivers, the Fonts that I saw on the screen seemed incredibly clear and crisp, compared to what the Vanta video card let me see. I fully expected the FX5200 card to play games better, and maybe even to display films and dvds better.. But why would standard Fonts appear so much sharper and clearer ? ... I had made no changes to the properties accessible via 'desktop rt click/properties/...' appearance, effects, settings, etc, etc (I have windows ME). I switched back and forth between cards several times just to make sure my eyes werent deceiving me, and there is no doubt that its a world of difference in the font clarity.. its not that they are blurry or hard to read with the older Vanta card... Its just that with the FX5200 card, they appear much clearer.. Like a real step up. Is it that the drivers for the newer more powerful card allow a different rendering of the same fonts, so as to make them appear better? I think alot of people who buy better video cards for game playing purposes, might be surprised at this added bonus. Has anybody else experienced this with a video card upgrade? paul |
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Are you running Windows XP on this machine? If you are still using WindowsME
that could be an issue right there. Another thing you could try is the latest VIA drivers at www.viaarena.com and see if that does anything for it. "Boostm3" wrote in message ... Forget my earlier post.. It just crashed again... For some reason, looks like IM stuck running that 16mb nvidia Vanta card. ITs a shame, considering Gateway sells the FX 5200 as an upgrade for my pc... I didnt buy it from them though, cause theyre selling it for only about 2.5 times what I bought it for! Paul "Tweek" wrote in message news:1FOif.5887$AB2.3920@trnddc08... Double check the motherboard and make sure you don't have any bulging or leaking capacitors. The Fx5200 doesn't draw a ton of power but it may be enough to bring a capacitor problem out in the open whereas your Vanta card doesn't. "Boostm3" wrote in message ... Listen to this. I got my new powersupply for my gateway 1000 pc last night.. As you recall, the fan on the gateway power supply had seized up solid, and with the GeForce FX 5200 video card with 128mb on board, it ran really hot, and I thought thats why after the first 3 hrs of use, the pc would crash, sending the monitor into its amber state, only recoverable with a hard reboot. The powersupply I used was a step up to 300 watts, with dual fans, and was listed as a direct replacement for my gateway model power supply. And it was.. it worked great, and both fans really cooled the case.. But, the same damn thing happened. With the eVga GeForce FX 5200 card in there, it crashed after about 3 hrs, and then on hard reboot, would crash every half hour or less after that, til I guess everything had a chance to cool down. Keep in mind that Im back using the stock Nvidia Vanta card with just 16mb on board, and its never done this.. Always runs cool to the touch also. So, Im sending the eVga GeForce fx 5200 card back to the vendor, and I ordered a slightly different variation of the same card from another vendor. This time, the maker was not eVga, but listed as GeForce itself. Same fx 5200 nvidia designation though. . Im thinking maybe there was some fault deep in the card I was using. Or maybe the heat sink config wasnt enough. .I dont know.. All I know is Gateway lists this card as a compatible replacement for my pc, and they even sell something designated as the same fx 5200 for my pc! Any other ideas what might have caused this strange behavior? Paul "Tweek" wrote in message news:tWNhf.308$%w2.174@trnddc07... You should be fine once you get the new PSU in there. I had a Select 1200 that I ran a GeForce 4 Ti4600 and later a Radeon 9700 Pro with no problems. "Boostm3" wrote in message ... Yes.. both cards supported 1280x1024, the monitor's native resolution. So thats not it. I have the vanta card in there now because the FX5200 card after a few hrs of use, turns my monitor off.. Kind of a crash of sorts, due, I think to the fact that my gateway power supply's fan is dead.. So I ordered a new power supply and hopefully, once I get that installed, Ill be able to re install my FX5200 card for permanent use.. IT just looks so much better than the vanta, It will allow me to get another couple yrs use of this 1 mhz machine. "Tweek" wrote in message news:nt1hf.609$mJ2.141@trnddc02... Were you running both cards at the monitors native resolution? I am not sure if 16mb of video ram is enough to drive that monitor at it's native resolution (1280x1024?). Beyond that it has been my observation that the Vanta series of cards had rather poor 2D display capabilities. "Boostm3" wrote in message news I recently got a Dell 1905 FP LCD monitor which I like alot. My Gateway Select 1000 pc, which I bought 4 yrs ago, came with an Nvidia Vanta video card, with only 16mb on board.. By today's standards, its a dinosaur. But since the most graphics intense thing I do is occasionally download and watch films or sporting events, its been ok. Heres what I dont understand. I bought a GeForce FX5200 128mb Nvidia video card to try out with the new monitor, replacing the primitive Nvidia Vanta card. And, I found that, after installing the drivers, the Fonts that I saw on the screen seemed incredibly clear and crisp, compared to what the Vanta video card let me see. I fully expected the FX5200 card to play games better, and maybe even to display films and dvds better.. But why would standard Fonts appear so much sharper and clearer ? ... I had made no changes to the properties accessible via 'desktop rt click/properties/...' appearance, effects, settings, etc, etc (I have windows ME). I switched back and forth between cards several times just to make sure my eyes werent deceiving me, and there is no doubt that its a world of difference in the font clarity.. its not that they are blurry or hard to read with the older Vanta card... Its just that with the FX5200 card, they appear much clearer.. Like a real step up. Is it that the drivers for the newer more powerful card allow a different rendering of the same fonts, so as to make them appear better? I think alot of people who buy better video cards for game playing purposes, might be surprised at this added bonus. Has anybody else experienced this with a video card upgrade? paul |
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