Graphics Booster (General Comments on Video Cards)

Name: Gorebrush

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Product:	General Comments on Video Cards
Date:	30/11/00 (622 review reads)
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One of the major devices inside a PC nowadays is the graphics card.

Currently in this day and age, the processor speed is slowly no longer making a difference to the speed gain, but the graphics card is now making more of an impact. The reason for this is the fact that the graphics cards of today are designed to take the workload away from the CPU and the graphics card does the work for it.

So, what graphics card ?

It all depends on the following

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1. How much money you are willing to spend
2. What do you need it for
3. What PC you currently own

A
1. Okay, for under a hundred pounds, you can buy... nVidia TNT range, i.e. the TNTM64 is about 70 quid. Performance is okay, but there again, only 70 quid.

70-120,

GeForce 2 MX by far is the best buy, featuring the GTS 2 GPU and is just amazing. End of story :)

150+
GeForce GTS 2 / Ultra or Voodoo5 (though i daren't recommend you buy one)

Amazing grafx again, but expensive !


2. If it's games, then you need one of these cards, but check out they're DVD capabilities if you want them.

3. Not too much of an issue, but check to see if your PC can support one of these high powered cards before you spend your pennies on one !:)

Gorebrush

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