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Subject: Re: Which NVIDIA GeForce series level is enough for AMD Athlon 64?

Author: gerold daniels

Date: 05:23:36 12/22/04

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On December 22, 2004 at 07:11:39, Tony Nichols wrote:

>On December 22, 2004 at 06:56:40, Eran Karu wrote:
>
>>I will use AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 939 for playing or analyzing chess games under
>>Fritz8 interface (Sometimes I watch 3 dimensions games from fritz server,)
>>surfing the Internet with nice multimedia and watch DVD movies. I do not use
>>heavy graphic work such art or photo.
>>
>>So, what is the right maximum level of NVIDIA Geforce series for a new display
>>card?
>>
>>From GeForce 256 (lowest end) through GeForce 6 series (highest end.)
>>
>>For example, I consider GeForce 5 series such 5200, 5700 or 5800.
>>
>>Also, what is size of memory that is enough for it, 500MB or 1GB?
>>
>>Is 80GB hard disk space more than enough?
>>
>>I do not want to waste money on unnecesssary high-end display card, expensive
>>memory chips and hard drive. Please help me.
>>
>>Many thanks,
>>Eran Karu
>Hello Eran
>I would recomend a good video card. If you use a cheap card your system will be
>held back. 512 mb of ram is plenty for most people. I currently have 256 on my
>AMD xp 2600 running windows xp. The only time I get low is when I'm
>multi-tasking. I also have a 80 gig hard drive. I have plenty of software and
>still have 55 gig left. Right now I'm running a very cheap 64mb geforce. It
>definitely sucks. I think 128 is probably good enough. 256 is even better!
>Good Luck
>Tony

hi eran..get 1 gb or 2 gb of ram for sure.

gerold



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