Best Video Card. Which would u get?

[Virtualbody1234]

For Vista I heard that you will need a Direct X10 card to run the desktop in 3D... maybe I'm wrong there tho. I know they will release Halo 2 only for Vista so they can get as much sales as possible and Halo 2 will use the Direct X 10 engine. I hear you can go in 2D in Vista also if your card isn't that great and I'm sure you can go into 2D neways. I'm sure there will be an option in Windows to go into 2D. Vista does sound like it's just going to be eyecandy and some little new features but I'm going to upgrade neways just considering eventually you would need to later I'm sure. I heard about how you have to upgrade your monitor for Vista but I don't understand why...either way I would be really pissed because I just spent over $500 for a new LCD. No fucking way am I going to buy ANOTHER monitor.

The reason you have to buy a new monitor is because they're trying to protect video content from being copied. If you try to "capture" the signal between the video card output and the input of the monitor then the copy protection system cuts off the video. It won't playback video unless the proper closed loop is detected.

[Tempestv]

The reason you have to buy a new monitor is because they're trying to protect video content from being copied. If you try to "capture" the signal between the video card output and the input of the monitor then the copy protection system cuts off the video. It won't playback video unless the proper closed loop is detected.

Garbage either way, don't worry, before we can really get our hands on the tecnology to require this, I am willing to bet that someone will have figured out a way to make some sort of closed circuit mimicing device, everytime some company tries something stupid like that, it isn't long before a way around it is found.

[Formula1]

yeah a friend told me that microsoft coded vista so that movies will be very difficult to pirate. I sure as hell aint installing it. I'll probably install windows 64 bit instead... Hey VB is it worth getting windows 64 right now ?

[clocker]

friend of mine got 1000 extra pcmark 03 points running vista 64bit beta over xp media center.

Hell, you can pick up an extra 1000 points running Windows ME instead of Media Center.

Hey VB is it worth getting windows 64 right now

I am not VB (nor do I play him on TV) but I'll toss in my $.02...basically, no.
Unless you are running software designed to utilize the 64-bit extensions there is no performance increase.

[S!X]

There isnt much for drivers that are w64 compatible eaither so its basically useless for the time being.

[clocker]

The driver situation has gotten much better since I tried 64 bit XP several months ago.
Fifteen minutes of Googling and I found every driver necessary to feed Sprocket.

[mr. nails]

i'm thinking the 1900xtx is prob still the better bet over the newly starred 7900gtx, but others like the less wattage consumption and the quieter fan over performance...

[Oyster]

mr.nails those are quite some good specs on your comp.. dam if only i had the money and also 1900XTX is better in my opionion i've heard itss much cheper and has good speed as well.

[fkdup74]

I was just thinking.....
it would be funny if DX10 totally blows,
and all you goofy fuckers anticipating it have to wait for DX11



Vista is gonna blow as well
we got some goofy "network specialist" at the office that wants to get everyone upgraded to Vista
~170 workstations, probably 90% of them running sub-1GHz CPUs, sub-512 MB RAM, and integrated gfx

I told him to go fuck himself

[mr. nails]

mr.nails those are quite some good specs on your comp..

thx, lots of OT to build that, but there are better machines here on these forums. i appreciate the compliment though.

also 1900XTX is better in my opionion i've heard itss much cheper and has good speed as well.

the 1900xtx is anywhere from $50-$100 more than the nVidia counterpart, but is superior in it's hardware.

we got some goofy "network specialist" at the office that wants to get everyone upgraded to Vista...

why in the world would you want to upgrade an OS (@ work nonetheless) when it first cums out in the first place? it's gonna be buggy. retarded.