What's the difference?

Jaepheth · Post by **Jaepheth** » 2005-06-03 11:20pm

I'm shopping for a new video card, and saw these two:

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Anyways, I was wondering if anyone knew any difference between the two to justify the price difference.

EDIT: looks like the expensive one is bundled with some extra software... whoopty do

McC · Post by **McC** » 2005-06-04 12:36am

Scroll down further.

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TV-Out  	 HDTV/S-Video/Composite Out  	 S-Video/Composite Out

and also the Accessories section. HDTV out is a pretty big deal

Executor32 · Post by **Executor32** » 2005-06-04 12:50am

Plus that's the cheaper one, so I'd go with that one if I were you.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2005-06-04 01:53am

Man, if I were you, I'd go for one of those hot PGA cards from IBM. Oh man. You could run your screen at 640x480 with one of those suckers!

Better have two ISA slots open though, dude.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-06-04 02:08am

Thats gold, U-235. Do you remember those 18" cards from IBM? Those were the days.

Jaepheth · Post by **Jaepheth** » 2005-06-04 03:01am

Oh man! I bet that thing has 8MB of memory!

And yeah, I decided on the cheaper one.

BloodAngel · Post by **BloodAngel** » 2005-06-04 08:38am

Oh god I remember seeing one of those at school. I'm sure I had one in my old Aptiva, but was too chicken at the time to open and take a look.

Also, looking at both of them, I agree with the others on buying the cheaper one. It has all the features of the more expensive one, plus HDTV-out and another free cable. Which is kinda weird, why is it that the one with more features is selling for lower...?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2005-06-05 06:06am

Jaepheth wrote:Oh man! I bet that thing has 8MB of memory!

And yeah, I decided on the cheaper one.

The PGA card was released in 1984. 8 megs of RAM would have been a massive amount of memory for the whole system, let alone a graphics card.

It does, however, have a built-in 8088 processor, and can do 3D manipulation at an amazing 60 frames per second at 640x480 in 256 colors! (Don't laugh; EGA came out the same year and could only display 16 colors at once. I'm also pretty sure the maximum EGA resolution was 640x200.)

BloodAngel wrote:Oh god I remember seeing one of those at school. I'm sure I had one in my old Aptiva, but was too chicken at the time to open and take a look.

That's... not terribly likely. PGA cards were introduced at the low low price of $5,000 and required a special monitor to operate.

Jawawithagun · Post by **Jawawithagun** » 2005-06-05 07:06am

Uraniun235 wrote: It does, however, have a built-in 8088 processor, and can do 3D manipulation at an amazing 60 frames per second at 640x480 in 256 colors! (Don't laugh; EGA came out the same year and could only display 16 colors at once. I'm also pretty sure the maximum EGA resolution was 640x200.)

640x400 actually. 640x200 in black and white was the CGA max resolution.