So I've been promising that I'd get some sections in on
hardware specific stats...
This week I've got the
top video
cards.
*All
stats courtesy PC World February 2001 Issue, page 124*
There
are stats that they all share: 4x AGP, 350MHz RAMDAC, and 32MB
Ram (except for the Annihilator 2 Ultra which has 64MB ram).
I
could go on and on expounding the virtues and vices of the
cards listed, but I'll let the chart do the talking.
Name
Average Price
Chip
DDR
Extras
Annihilator
2 Ultra
$499
NVidia Geforce2 Ultra
Y
DVD
Annihilator
2
$300
NVidia Geforce2
GTS
Y
DVD, S-video-in
All-In-Wonder
Radeon
$299
ATI Radeon
Y
DVD, TV tuner,
S-video-in, S-video-out, DVI-out
ELSA
Gladiac GeForce2 GTS
$289
NVidia Geforce2 GTS
Y
DVD, S-video-in,
S-video-out
Hercules
3D Prophet II MX
$149
NVidia Geforce2 MX
N
DVD
Voodoo
4500 AGP
$149
3dfx VSA-100
N
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Radeon
32MB
$129
ATI Radeon
N
DVD, S-video-out
Asus
AGP-V7100 Pure
$129
NVidia
GeForce2 MX
N
DVD
CardExpert
GeForce2 MX
$129
NVidia Geforce2 MX
N
DVD, and DVI-out
MSI
MS-StarForce 816
$119
NVidia Geforce2 MX
N
DVD
I really hope this
helped.... and for your information - the CardExpert GeForce2
MX was given the highest overall performance rating by PC
World out of all of those cards.
I've always
thought that the GeForce2 MX chip rocked....
