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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Wake Forest, NC
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Getting ready to make the plunge and wanted some video help..
I have a 37" monitor at home and wanted to know which card will be needed - stock or the ATI. Mostly for video and web and maybe a game or 2..
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Since your 37" is probably just an HDTV (1920x1080 or 1366x768), either will be fine.
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Yes, either card would should work with your 37" monitor. It really boils down to how much gaming you'll be doing... The ATI X1900 is a better gamer.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Why is the ATI better for Gaming? I'm a little unclear on that.
I should say that I'm blown away by the RAM specs these cards come with. I got a 64MB card and I thought it was big. 128 was ridiculous when I saw... insane.
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Originally Posted by SirCastor
Why is the ATI better for Gaming? I'm a little unclear on that.
I should say that I'm blown away by the RAM specs these cards come with. I got a 64MB card and I thought it was big. 128 was ridiculous when I saw... insane.
More pixel pipelines, more shaders, higher core clockrate, higher memory clock rate, more memory... all in all about 3x faster.
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I wouldn't say 3x, but it will be faster.
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