Re: Graphics Card Choices

From: Perfect Reign (theperfectreign_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:28:13 -0800

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:25:59 -0700, someone posing as Kevin Nathan donned
fireproof bloomers and chisled in the wall:

> On 25 Jan 2005 15:54:51 GMT
> Harold Stevens <wookie@aces.localdomain> wrote:
>
>> IME, that's true of almost every onboard function I've seen;
> <snip>
>> IMO, much of the hardware/digital onboard seems hasty and
>> shoddy from gitgo.
>>
>
> But more than adequate for someone using email and web browsing as their
> main functions (well over half of the people I'm working with here); and
> mostly adequate for me, doing programming and database stuff more than
> anything else.

I've used onboard audio and video and agree to some extent.

OB video is adequate for the non-gamer or non-graphics person. (However,
you do lose out on TuxRacer...)

OB audio, however, is a different story. I've yet to see a mobo with good
onboard audio. Yet, you can pickup a PCI 5.1 audio card for less than $30
which will work great. (I paid $24 for my el cheapo 5.1 surround card which
I use on my Linux machine at home. By comparison, I ended up paying around
$100 for the speakers.)

I agree that even people like me don't need the 512MB video cards, though a
nice 32MB or 64MB card can really help out. My ATI is 64MB and my mom has a
GForce 32MB card, both of which work great.

Now, onboard networking, is a different story, IMO. I've yet to see an
issue with an onboard ethernet card for a workstation. In fact, I wouldn't
dream of buying a seperate card unless I was looking at wireless or for a
server. 

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