If you decide to go with Nvidia or ATI, keep an eye and an ear on the noise level of the fan. Some kind of modified card with a passive cooling would be the preferred method. greetings Markus
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adam Maas Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 8:59 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Computer Problems I'm an ATI guy, but Matrox is king for pure workstation use. NVidia lags ATI in the output quality arena if you're going with a consumer card (Which are very competetive for most use today). I'd look at a dual-DVI Radeon X1600 personally. -Adam Bob Shell wrote: > Speaking of which, what video cards do you folks favor? I need to > put together a Windows box for video editing, so I know I need a fast > processor and plenty of RAM, but I know zip about video cards. Oh, > and I need to build this super cheap, too. > > Bob > > On Dec 8, 2006, at 10:48 AM, William Robb wrote: > > >>>Okay, I was wondering about that. The 64X2 is cheaper than the Intel >>>Duo >>>Core, but some of the reviews imply it may be just dandy and the Duo >>>Core >>>sometimes sometimes has more problems. Hard to tell. >> >>The workstation we just set up for me is an AMD64 bit dual. >>We took a box stock Future Shop Hewlett Packard and made a few mods to >>it. >>We put 2 gigs of ram into it, and added a couple of SATA drives in >>external boxes for swap and storage and put a decent video card >>into it. >>It runs fast enough, and wasn't overly expensive. > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
