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TheCaveman
02-18-2005, 06:44 PM
Hi all

I bought a new computer like 6 months ago it is a dell with a 3Ghz processer P4 and 1Gb ram 160Gb hard drive etc. I have a video card in it now and it is a Ati Radeon X300 128 Mb I'm having a dual display working fine. wheb I bought the computer I didn' really look at the videocard because of the budget. I have been working now and have some money again so I went on looking for a nice graphic card for like a 150 euros or something and I came across a ATI Radeon X600XT - 256 Mo DDR - PCI Express - Output TV/DVI for like 149 euros but I didn't find any comparing stuff between a X300 and X600 so I was wondering if there is any use in buying this new graphics card.

If anyone could help me would be very appreciated

greets
TheCaveman
02-18-2005, 08:44 PM
Was also wondering if it is possible to use two graphic cards and plug a monitor on every graphic card or even plug like 4 monitors or something (hehe don't know what to use 4 monitors for but hehe you never know got two monitors doing nothing anyway

greets
ktamiola
02-18-2005, 08:59 PM
Was also wondering if it is possible to use two graphic cards and plug a monitor on every graphic card or even plug like 4 monitors or something (hehe don't know what to use 4 monitors for but hehe you never know got two monitors doing nothing anyway

greets

Yep, You can do this but not on a typical gaming card. There are special lines of Matrox cards and also Nvidia NVS chipsets which are capable of doing such tricks...
waytoocrazy
02-18-2005, 10:19 PM
A website that I used... to kind of tell the difference of chipsets and their capability is this site...
3D Chipset Specs (http://www.neeyik.info/3dspecs/)

Hope that gives you a little more information... the rest you will have to garner from other websites that test unsing the typical benchmarks Aquamark, 3Dmark03/05, etc... etc...
TheCaveman
02-21-2005, 10:56 AM
thanks for the help you guys fixed a part of the problem still somethings remaining. what kind of card would you suggest for 3d work and photoshop work? but in a 150 to 250 euro max range

greets
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