Re: Graphics card for PC (was: Monitor Choice Poll)

["Bob Zwarick" <umbra1@qwest.net>]

My oh my. So do I d/l the latest drivers. And if you read the newsgroups you
will see that there are h/w glitches in the Matrox cards.

And unlike some, we here do rack and stack of systems. As for diversity, I
always thought it was  a good thing to hear various opinions and facts.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Louie" <chip@thelouie.org>
To: <scan@leben.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 12:06 PM
Subject: RE: Graphics card for PC (was: Monitor Choice Poll)


>
> Hey Bob,
>
> I have both Intel and AMD systems in my home office and both have had
Matrox
> video cards in them and neither one had any problems with the Matrox
> drivers.  I do what I always do when installing a new product, toss the
> driver disc that came with the product and go to the web site and download
> the latest certified drivers and install.
>
> My primary development, scanning and photo editing system is an ASUS
A7V133a
> mobo with an AMD Athlon 1400 clocked at 1627GHz. with 1.5GB SDRAM with
> ATA100 60GB and 40GB 7200RPM 2MBcache IBM hard discs and a pair of ATA100
> 40GB IBM 7200 2MBcache discs running striped on the onboard Promise ATA100
> RAID chip.  There is also an Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI host adapter with an
> internal SCSI CD-R and external 8GB 4mm DAT tape and a Polaroid SS4000
film
> scanner.  This system also has an onboard audio chip and 4XAGP Matrox G450
> w/32MB of DDR driving a Viewsonic PF790 (19"), as the primary screen and
an
> E70F as the secondary screen and a 3COM 10/100 managed server NIC.  This
> system has run 24x7 under Win2K for almost a year without a hitch, hiccup
or
> crash.  It has been configured in many different ways but I have never had
a
> problem with the Matrox video card or drivers.
>
> My other primary station used mainly for writing, email, web research, web
> publishing, some photo editing for web use, UNIX support, and some game
play
> is a 1.0GHz. Intel P3 clocked at 1.2GHz. on an ASUS cuSL2-C mobo with 512
MB
> of SDRAM, SoundBlaster PCI512, Adaptec 29160 SCSI host adapter, with 3
18GB,
> 7200RPM IBM SCSI discs with 2MB of cache and a pair of 9GB IBM 7200RPM
SCSI
> hard discs with 2MB of cache, a SCSI CD-ROM, an 8GB 4mm WangDAT tape and a
> 1GB Tandberg ANSI tape drive, an ATA 24X16X40 CD-RW drive and an Intel
> 10/100 managed server NIC.  The Video card is an ASUS V7700 Pure (GeForce
> 2GTS with 32MB of DDR memory), with heavily overclocked processor and
> memory, driving a Viewsonic PS790 (19"), monitor.  This system runs under
> Win2K, SCO Open Server srV and Red Hat LINUX.  This system has been
running
> for even longer and also has never had a hitch once the GeForce drivers
were
> sorted out by nVida.
>
> The point of my post is that superstitious voo-doo B.S. and ignorance is
> rampant on the list and that if you buy high quality parts and use your
head
> during installations that for the most part this card or that card is not
> important.  What's important is that the card and system be designed to do
> the task you bought it for and run reliably.  No simple poll is going to
> yield good information because the group being polled is too diverse in
> computer knowledge and experience.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Chip Louie
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-scan@leben.com [mailto:owner-scan@leben.com]On Behalf Of Bob
> > Zwarick
> > Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2001 8:40 AM
> > To: scan@leben.com
> > Subject: Re: Graphics card for PC (was: Monitor Choice Poll)
> >
> >
> > ATI, though once dominant in the graphics card area, has fallen
> > down lately
> > on their software drivers. And on some of their newer high performance
> > cards, there are some incompatibilities with certain
> > motherboards. So, they
> > are like all the rest.
> >
> > For my system, an Athlon based system with AGP 4x, the GeForce MX400
with
> > 32mb works best. Matrox and ATI models were problematic.
> >
> > Bob
> >
>
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