[geeks] value of PIII PC servers

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Sat Jun 24 12:29:37 CDT 2006


Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Fri, 23 Jun 2006 @ 17:54 -0400, nate at portents.com said:
>>Unless a person is willing to memorize lists of letter-number
>>combinations and what they actually correlate to in terms of GPU
>>architecture, graphics memory architecture, and how they correlate to
>>real-world quality and performance in both a theoretical and practical
>>sense to both OpenGL and DirectX, then buying a video card is the
>>equivalent of playing slots.  That part of the industry has kind of
>>gone off the rails.
> 
> I usually find that getting cards from Asus just works.  Likewise I have
> good luck with MSI video cards.

I've had bad enough luck with MSI motherboards (including one that had
to be replaced under warranty three times) that I won't buy MSI
hardware.  However, I've never had a bad experience with ASUS.  An ASUS
video card might well be a good way to go when I can afford to replace
this LeadTek card.


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