topic Video Card Ratings in Installation & update

Video Card Ratings

Tom Krowka — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 22:42:06 GMT

Is there anywhere where the Video cards are rated. I'm buying a new one for one of my computers, and am too lazy to read the rating for each card. There are too many of them.

Re: Video Card Ratings

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 22:55:43 GMT

Tom,
Vidio card data base.
At the very bottom of the forum index.
Peter Devlin

Re: Video Card Ratings

Tom Krowka — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 00:48:11 GMT

I see where they are rated individually. I'm looking for a GS ranking based on the reports. Like which card works the best with AC9 and windows XP. Otherwise, you have to try and match up the card with one you want to buy. But I don't know which one I want to buy unless I read every report. Which I don't want to do.

Re: Video Card Ratings

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 00:52:27 GMT

Tom,
My impression is that GS has not done this and probably won't.
I hope I'm wrong.
Thank you,
Peter Devlin

Re: Video Card Ratings

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:03:30 GMT

Tom wrote:
...But I don't know which one I want to buy unless I read every report. Which I don't want to do.

Tom,
You probaly oughta' start reading...the likelyhood that Graphisoft would rate video Cards is nill. There's just too many external factors that could affect performance.

By the way...I noticed you're a "Sooner" ...that's awesome me too!

Dan K

Re: Video Card Ratings

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:38:57 GMT

Tom wrote:
But I don't know which one I want to buy unless I read every report. Which I don't want to do.

Tom,

no one is going to say that THIS card is the absolutely, unquestionably the best card. You are going to have to make up you own mind... if you need to read every report to do that, that's what you have to do.

You know what? I feel your pain The good part is that there are lots of cards that will meet your needs. Just stay away from the ones people have had problems with.

Good luck,

Woody

Re: Video Card Ratings

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:25:27 GMT

Just popped in a ATI-X800X in my G5... sweeeet

+pablo

AC9/C4D9

Re: Video Card Ratings

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:39:19 GMT

I'm lucky that the guy I'm currently dating turns out to be the best PC tech I've ever come across, so I'm letting him update my computer pretty much any way he wants.

I do have one question, though, and that's just that I want to make sure a PCI video card will in fact work with AC. I'm not up on these things at all, and I've never heard of those.

Last time I had to deal with this stuff, AGP and open GL were the buzz words, and he's telling me that AGP is out now, if I understood him correctly. I'm still running all the same software I have been, though, with current versions (except that I haven't yet loaded AC9).

TIA.

Wendy

Re: Video Card Ratings

ci-JoshOs — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 01:02:45 GMT

I assume you are talking about PCI-Express here.
The PCI-E standard is just talking about the way that the card connects to your motherboard, but doesn't actually affect the chip at all(just the speed), so any cards whose AGP versions work weell will work just as well in PCI-E

Re: Video Card Ratings

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:33:08 GMT

henrypootel wrote:
I assume you are talking about PCI-Express here.
The PCI-E standard is just talking about the way that the card connects to your motherboard, but doesn't actually affect the chip at all(just the speed), so any cards whose AGP versions work weell will work just as well in PCI-E

Got me what I'm talking about - I have no idea <g>. I've got a bad motherboard that needs to be replaced, and he says he can't give me an upgradeable one if I stick with the video card I have because the technology is now out of date, so apparently I have to get a new one to make the whole arrangement work and be of use for longer.

I'm not sure what he's proposing, but I'm leery of a $79 card when the one I've got cost $450 new. I've got an Nvidia card now, but I don't think that's what he's proposing for the new setup, so I can't speak to AGP and PCI versions of the same card.

He claims this cheap little card will blow my current card away. I guess I can always get another one if it doesn't. I just need to be sure the format will work with AC and formZ, because if not, I want to keep the current card since I've been happy with it.

Wendy

Re: Video Card Ratings

ci-JoshOs — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:42:21 GMT

It really depends what the cards are. You could easily have spent $450 on a card 18 months ago, that would get slaughtered by a $100 card now, but it depends. If you're getting quoted $79, then it's probably a GeforceFX 5200 or Radeon 9200. Find out(if you can) what the card is he is proposing, and what card you have now, and i(or someone else here) can tell you whether you're going up or down.

Actually it sounds like maybe you have an original PCI(not-express) card. in which case, yes, anything new will whip it.