Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 05:29:36 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 when does you graphic card suck? High-end 3D graphic cards are needed for one sole purpose: Egoshooter. If you play them buy a high-end graphic card if you don't play them, a ATI Radeon 9200 or a Geforce 4 with 128 MB RAM will do fine for all other stuff (both are below 50 bucks). I have a Geforce 2 with 64 MB and it does not hold back my system in no cases - except for 3DMark (a benchmark to test your graphic performance). For surfing, watching DVD and playing chess graphic cards are totally insignificant. I would spent my money to buy 1 GB RAM instead of 512 MB. For long chess analysis and doing different things on the machine in the same time more RAM is really helpful. Since harddisk cost almost the same whether you buy 80 GB or 160 I would go for 160 GB. All brands are okay, I'm happy with IBM Deskstar. regards Joachim
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