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Video Card - PM 9600...Which one To Get?
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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I'm in the market for a PCI video card for my 9600/300. It currently has the 8 meg card that shipped with it. Any suggestions on a real good card? Im not a real big gamer but would like the option. My main interest is improving screen re-draws while surfing etc. Does my systems 50 mhz bus speed affect which choice I should make?
Thanks!
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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I would recommend a Rage 128 card or Radeon. Either card would help with screen redraws. The Rage 128 card should be alot cheaper - I believe ATI is not manufacturing them anymore, but stores will still have them. They are still supported. The Radeon is going to be more expensive, may be more than you need, and may be under-utilized by the machine.
The ATI Rage 128 cards are available in retail as the ATI Orion, ATI Nexus 128, or ATI Xclaim VR 128. More info is available www.atitech.com
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Norfolk,VA, USA
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i agree. Don't go with the Voodoo cards. They just got bought. I would say that a RAGE 128 would be best. It's $150 at the apple store, but if you call someone like maczone or mac mall they can beat that.
My 9600 has two ATI RAGE Orions. They are 16MB and o.k., but not as good as my RAGE 128 PROs.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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Cool. What is the benefit of having two video cards? Is it to run two or more monitors or is there something else? Can they be hooked up to work together on one monitor?
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Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: WNC
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Well, you can Surf on Macnn on one screen and do totaly something different on another. Just plugem both up to monitors, and you can set everything in the monitors control panel of what resolutions and positions you want everything in. Another words, while one monitor is in 800x600, the other can be in 1600x1200, of course being hooked into their respective boards. I LOVE dual Monitor systems. Now If I only had a bigger desk...
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- Eric
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