Suggestions 4 a new AGP video card with 256 megs of memory ?

[bigkahuna]

Hi guys,

I'm thinking of upgrading my old video card to a newer one.... I want a 256 meg video card (AGP )

Are there any Nvidia based cards that are ok in price ?

It seems there's not much in this range for AGP cards, but only the newer PCI-Express cards.

Perhaps some of you could direct me to a video card.  Thanks in advance.

( I want it to be supported by Microsof MCE2005 )

thanks

[RedR]

Heya,

I am going to assume you want to games or HD since you are interested in 256MB, that or you just want to max out what you can on the upgrade. Either way, I would highly suggest a nVidia 6600 GT. If these are not your interest, you just want to get a good card as an upgrade, then I suggest a 6200. The big difference is games and HD between these two suggestions. Most folks go with a 6200 far as a good PVR card when they dont care about HD or games. Else, the 6600 GT is the lowest you can get that supports "Spacial-temporal deinterlacing" of 1080i content. It also rocks for games. Funny enough, the nice game card, 6800 doesn't support this at all and it lacks quite a bit when it comes to supporting SD or HD TV compared to the 6600.

Hope this helps,
RedR

[bigkahuna]

Hi Red,

I notice that my local vendor sends ASUS video cards with Nvidia chipsets, is this ok to buy ?

also when you mention HD, I wonder what you may be talking about ... are you talking about in future when we can record HD ? ( as far as I know, HD can only be recorded over the air and I don't have that available to me where I live ) , perhaps you can just explain that for me a bit, I would appreciate that.

So I will look at the 6600GT, I've never heard of this one but will look into it right now.  I won't be gaming, but video editing, so I want to make sure i buy at least 256 megs of memory, so I don't need to upgrade in a year from now.

thanks again Red.

[RedR]

Ya, Asus is a great name and I've always enjoyed their stuff. As far as the HD, its not so much recording here vs playback. You asked about a video card, thus playback was my focus, even with HD. The 6600 will do it, but it is the lowest that can up to 1080i. Else the 6200 is the way to go if HD isn't an interest.

Since editing is the interest here, I'd say the 256MB ram isn't required at all. If the price break on the difference in ram is enough, I'd stick with 128MB.