Captron nous illumina en ce 2008-06-10 20:46 -->
>> After trolling through the list I find no consensus, and supposedly
>> knowledgeable retailers are just as bad if not worse.
>>
>> I don’t want to spend big dollars on a video card but do want to optimize my
>> “bang for the buck”. Graphics card features have zoomed of late, with Quadro
>> and 128bit available now, but what is the best bet? Is it worth it?
>>
>> My computer is a Quad core on XP Pro 4Gb RAM 620Gb HD, Decent Gigabyte MB, and
>> needs a reasonable video card.
>>
>> It seems there are two main types of card in the moderate range of say US$300.
>> Comments have gone before on this list about the video cards not really doing
>> much for the rendering time well now is the time to come out of the closet and
>> see the Duo and Quad 128bit cards that are available. Is this still true?
> 
> 
> It sounds likle you both agree that rendering keeps the CPU(S) busy but doesn't
> really offload anything to the GPUs.
> 
> Then why do they sell the math intensive cards (Expensive: see above) ?
> 
> Cheers
> Ron in KiwiCountry
> 
> 
To put out an extra FPS or two from the more recent games. Just 1 or 2 more FPS 
are BIG $$$ sale arguments when targeting hard-core gamers.

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Alain
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