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Topic: more detailed vid card
started by: Noursly

Posted by Noursly on Jun. 23 2001,16:56

I know you guys have given advise on video cards recently but the one I want needs to have Video Input.

I want good video input/output, so I can watch tv too and record videos I will make for business presentation.

What is the best price I can get with all that?

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Posted by Noursly on Jun. 23 2001,22:11

Why do you hate to recomend ATI?
What sucks about them?
(wondering which Vcard do you have)?

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Posted by The_Stomper on Jun. 24 2001,05:41

I hate to recommend ATI, but that's your best solution for what you want (capturing video, watching TV).

< ATI Radeon 64MB VIVO edition = 贵. >

That's your best bet as far as price/performance goes. You can get an All-In-Wonder, but they push 赨 and only have 32MB (at that price anyways).

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Posted by The_Stomper on Jun. 24 2001,18:53

Well, I hate to recommend ATI because of bad experiences in the past (*cough* where are my DRIVERS DAMMIT? *cough*), über-lame performance (ATI Rage chipset = crap), and overpriciness.

Right now, I'm running an nVidia geForce2 GTS 32MB - and I plan to get a geForce2 Pro 64MB with TV-out.

ATI is a better solution for video capture / editing / etc... but for r4w sp33d, you can't touch nVidia. (All you Radeon-2 junkies can suck on that one. I'll be running a fifth-generation geForce by the time that thing makes production. :P )

Posted by Rhydant on Jun. 25 2001,00:20

quote:
Originally posted by The_Stomper:
[B]Well, I hate to recommend ATI because of bad experiences in the past (*cough* where are my DRIVERS DAMMIT? *cough*), über-lame performance (ATI Rage chipset = crap), and overpriciness.

hey, you cant diss the ATi Rade chipsets. ive had Über luck with them in the past. my old emachines (which is in pieces now ) had a RAge Pro2 and it still gave me 45+ FPS in counter strike on 64 megs of ram with god damn 466 celeron. so stfu.

hrm.... Radeon an in wonder... ooohh.... *drool*

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Posted by The_Stomper on Jun. 25 2001,10:49

Sure, you can get 45+ fps in CS no problem - it's based off the Half-Life (Quake II) engine. Even my old S3 ViRGE could crank 45+ in HL with an AMD K6-2 400 and 64MB.

Oh wait. I never used the ViRGE much - I bought a Voodoo2 and ran at a "mind-blowing" 80+ fps. (Yes, I tweaked the hell out of it.)
On a totally unrelated topic, does anyone want a Voodoo2 with one working TMU and thinking it has 9MB of RAM?

Posted by KL1NK on Jun. 26 2001,03:34

actually, halflife is based on a heavily modified quake 1/glquake engine.

Posted by Dark Knight Bob on Jun. 26 2001,21:15

he's right ya know quake 1

Posted by The_Stomper on Jun. 29 2001,12:06

/me wonders just what kind of pansy-ass games we'd be playing now if it weren't for Carmack...

Frightening thought, isn't it?

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Posted by Rhydant on Jun. 29 2001,17:42

eh. it doesnt matter. i have a Matrox Miellenium G400. all is well.

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Posted by Rhydant on Jun. 29 2001,18:48

yeah... if it werent for god.... er, carmack, john romero would of had more of an edge over the industry, and there could of been more diakatanas... AAAGGGHHH!!!!

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Posted by KL1NK on Jun. 29 2001,20:41

John romero would probably a homeless crack head (isn't that what he is now?) if it weren't for Carmack. There wouldn't have been wolfenstein, doom, quake, etc. without carmack, all games romero also worked on.

Posted by Dark Knight Bob on Jun. 29 2001,20:53

has anyone got a system that runs operation: flashpoint so that it doesnt feel like a goddamn benchmarking test?

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Posted by pengu1nn on Jul. 02 2001,05:22

quote:
Originally posted by The_Stomper:
Well, I hate to recommend ATI because of bad experiences in the past (*cough* where are my DRIVERS DAMMIT? *cough*), über-lame performance (ATI Rage chipset = crap), and overpriciness.

i use a Rage chipset. i love it. of course it was my first "real" 3d card (had a onboard before ) ati has stepped up with the drivers now. < www.rageunderground.com > for the lastest news on ati.

but seriously for video editing go with the ati. they have realized thier customer service (read: driver updates) sucked and they are updating more often now

This message has been edited by pengu1nn on July 02, 2001 at 12:26 PM