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Article #83476Re: I'm considering an ATI video card for 3d/2d, can you advise?
From: Gary White
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 1997 00:00
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MAB4 wrote: > > i'm considering a new computer purchase with pentium 200mmx, to play alot > of games,etc. > my question: Is the ati (perhaps allin wonder or proturbo pctv2,etc) common > for games to be compatible with, > and is this a pretty good card for mostly 2d and some 3d usage. i would > like the ability to > display games onto a tv and tv/vcr to monitor for "saving". i heard a new > card (expert-type unknown) > can do this and has the new agp credentials. mostly worried about high > cost, compatibilty, ease > of use and of course good quality of image. please would knowlegable > persons advise me of this or > perhaps another card that will do these functions with the same > concerns.please state what card(s) > to consider. > > thank you much in advance.... mark (email at: ma...@prodigy.net ) ATI All-in-Wonder is a good combination of 2D and 3D acceleration. Definitely not the best for games, 3dfx is. Gets very good ratings from Boot and a couple of other mags. Has a lot of features. I got the 4MB card. Manual is next worthless but Help files are ok. AGP is at least a year away for game software, business apps rarely need the bus speed advantage and most of the first AGP motherboards and graphic cards are not great. Until win98, AGP is not supported and the final version is months away. -- Gary White Michigan, USA mailto:gar...@usa.net mailto:garywh...@worldnet.att.net ICQ Pager: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/575452
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From: Gary White <garywh...@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Re: I'm considering an ATI video card for 3d/2d, can you advise? Date: 1997/10/05 Message-ID: <617umk$muf@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> X-Deja-AN: 277999566 References: <01bcd171$4b981920$09c1edcc@gaetano> To: MAB4 <MA...@prodigy.net> Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Reply-To: garywh...@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.mulitmedia,comp.os.ms-windows.apps.compatibility.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit