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KHaN · 07-05-2001, 05:40 AM

Hello to everyone on this board! I saw your post Memnoch and thought I'd add in my 2 cents. If you can get a 17" monitor upgrade you will be happier in the long run. Also the Nvida MX series of videocards are excellent for CAD and office work but just so-so for 3D games (they were made for graphics workstations). The Radeon card is quite incredible, I have the 64meg DDR version and have yet to meet the game that can make it drop serious frames. Alot of system memory is nice but you will see almost zero increase in game performance because newer cards handle all the rendering onboard and don't rely on your CPU for serious help. Whelp that's my 2 cents! GL! Happy 4th of July America.

07-05-2001, 05:40 AM	#10
KHaN Drow Warrior Join Date: June 21, 2001 Location: the not to distant future, Posts: 250	Hello to everyone on this board! I saw your post Memnoch and thought I'd add in my 2 cents. If you can get a 17" monitor upgrade you will be happier in the long run. Also the Nvida MX series of videocards are excellent for CAD and office work but just so-so for 3D games (they were made for graphics workstations). The Radeon card is quite incredible, I have the 64meg DDR version and have yet to meet the game that can make it drop serious frames. Alot of system memory is nice but you will see almost zero increase in game performance because newer cards handle all the rendering onboard and don't rely on your CPU for serious help. Whelp that's my 2 cents! GL! Happy 4th of July America.