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What's the difference?
Posted: 2005-06-03 11:20pm
by Jaepheth
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
Posted: 2005-06-04 12:36am
by McC
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
Posted: 2005-06-04 12:50am
by Executor32
Plus that's the cheaper one, so I'd go with that one if I were you.
Posted: 2005-06-04 01:53am
by Uraniun235
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.
Posted: 2005-06-04 02:08am
by Stark
Thats gold, U-235. Do you remember those 18" cards from IBM? Those were the days.
Posted: 2005-06-04 03:01am
by Jaepheth
Oh man! I bet that thing has 8MB of memory!
And yeah, I decided on the cheaper one.
Posted: 2005-06-04 08:38am
by BloodAngel
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...?
Posted: 2005-06-05 06:06am
by Uraniun235
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.
Posted: 2005-06-05 07:06am
by Jawawithagun
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.