Video Card Rehashing

Michael Hipp Michael
Wed Nov 8 07:26:59 PST 2006


Net Llama! wrote:
> As for downgrading to an older GPU, I'd strongly recommend against that, 
> not so much for performance reasons (for TV-out its not going to make any 
> noticable difference), but more because of driver support reasons.  The 
> 1.0-9629 driver that was released today, is possibly going to be the last 
> driver that supports NVIDIA GPUs older than NV3x.  Your Ti-4200 and the 
> MX4xx line are NV25 and NV18 respectively, so you're going to be in legacy 
> territory within 6 months time.
> 
> Is there a good reason why you aren't considering something newer?  You 
> can get a GeForce 6 series graphics card on newegg for under $50:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2010380048+1069609639+1305520548+106790703&Subcategory=48&description=&Ntk=&srchInDesc=
> All of them have TV-out.

Lonni...
Great info! Thanks. But how does one tell what NVxx a particular card is made 
of? It isn't obvious to me from the descriptions such as the ones at Newegg.

Thanks,
Michael



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