Video Cards

[Bob H]

I installed an NVIDIA TNT2 M64 video card and certain line attributes disappear. Continuos and Zig Zag are the only ones that show up......

 

As far as cards I only have PCI slots.....the wonderful IT department.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Bob

[Finecut]

Bob .

If only PCI slots then get a matrox 400 card. It works well. The tnt SUCKS.

MX from Nivida no better.

If need be go to the matrox web site. The 400 (or 450) comes in AGP and Pci. You can order there.

Also since you are in Maine try this web site:JNCS.com

Great people, great service. They might have what you need.

 

Finecut

[cadcam]

please try the detanotar drivers off the ftp.

[JAMMAN]

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The tnt SUCKS.

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Understatement IMHFO. It will work in win2k with the detenator drivers, but not as well as a million other cards. I replaced an equally sucky S3 32 meg (agp) with a matrox g200 4meg I think(pci) and the matrox far outdid the S3

[cadcam]

I am trying to find the link to the site I bought my matrox g450 from.

It was $81.00 got it in 3days.

I will find the link and share it here.

[JAMMAN]

G450 comes in AGP and PCI. I'm sure the AGP is more popular, so I would check to see the availibility of the PCI version. Good luck-

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

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I replaced an equally sucky S3 32 meg (agp) with a matrox g200 4meg I think(pci) and the matrox far outdid the S3

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I replaced an S3 w/ 32MB as well and the 4MB G200 SMOKED the S3

[Jerry Bichsel]

I don't mean to be inflamatory but constructive.

 

So many companies come out with video cards that are directed more at 'gaming' rather than what we do, 'working'.

 

The focus is different for these gamiing cards and the results we see on CAD/CAM is oftenless than stellar.

 

I learned long ago that a card designed more for CAD/CAM is a much more reliable, stable platform beings that 99% of what I do is NOT gaming.

 

I currently use a 3DLabs Oxygen VX1, 32MB AGP card, Viewsonic 21" P815 at 1600x1200@85Hz in a dual P-III 650Mhz, 512MB RAM with four (5) Ultra2 SCSI drives.

 

Since I also run SolidWorks, I set up the card to optimize for SW and things run great. I have never had a problem with this setup in two years. It also runs all my Office apps fine, flicker free.

 

I do sometimes play games and while I may not get the frame rates that 'gaming' cards do, I can rely on the fact that the apps I make money with are rock stable.