[Leica] OT: graphics card

[hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)]

Oliver, most card development with bigger and bigger amounts of memory and 
more sophisticated 3D processing has been aimed at high
frame rates for games. This is not important for you. Because you are 
looking at an older standard with the AGP2.0 your choices will
be narrowed quite a bit. You need too, the right connectivity, that is will 
a card have one or two outs and are they analog or
digital. Since you are only interested in 2D performance, you might find 
something in an older Matrox (fine Canadian products) maybe
the G400. I'll check my stash of older cards/computers and track down a 
model to suggest. Anything you buy which fits your current
machine won't be suitable to put in anything more recent in design. A couple 
of years is an age in pc hardware.

Now for the biggie, consider a new machine. Since you don't need a leading 
edge games machine, I think you may be very pleasantly
surprised at how much computer you can get for a modest sum. Get me off list 
if you want some suggestions there

Cheers
Hoppy 

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Oliver Bryk
Sent: Monday, 25 September 2006 07:10
To: lug@leica-users.org
Subject: [Leica] OT: graphics card

Along with replacing my 15-year old 19" CRT, should I replace my graphics
card (NVIDIA GEForce2 MX/MX 400)? The drivers are current.
I'm looking at LCD monitors such as the larger ViewSonic, NEC MultiSync, or
Apple Cinema, to give some examples.
What properties of a graphics card are important for photo editing? I
understand that DVI is necessary for the Apple.
My physical limitations for card replacement are: AGP 2.0, 250W power
supply, 1800MHz P4 CPU. There is almost 1" of space for the card because the
adjacent PCI slot is empty.
I neither watch movies nor play games on my desktop PC.
Thanks for recommendations, Oliver



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