> After trolling through the list I find no consensus, and supposedly
> knowledgeable retailers are just as bad if not worse.
>


> 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

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