400sc onboard video or Geforce 2 GTS

[imported_tgenius]

Does anyone think the Geforce 2 GTS video is better quality (just browsing and stuff.. NO GAMES.. its a server box) than the 400sc onboard video? Isn't there a problem with AGP voltage on old video cards on the i875 chipset?

 

[Gamingphreek]

Geforce 2 will work fine the voltage problem refers to old AGP 1x and some 2x cards.


As for your question the Geforce 2 should be better and more efficient memory wise.

-Kevin

 

[imported_tgenius]

Kevin- I think this card is only AGP 1 or 2x.. Its an Elsa Geforce 2 GTS.

 

[Gamingphreek]

No all Geforce 2's are 2x and i think that the GTS Ultra Ti and even the MX's IIRC are 4x.

-Kevin

 

[imported_tgenius]

you are spot on.. it is a 4x card.. so now the question becomes if the video quality (refreshing and desktop etc) will improve over the onboard 400sc video... I see some pages take a good deals longer than they should to come up on that box.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Well it depends on how that board gets the memory. Is it just shared... if it is than it will be a lot slower and it will eat up you RAM.

The Geforce will be a much better card from what i can tell. IQ and performance wise.

-Kevin

 

[PhlashFoto]

I have the 400SC. It does not have onboard video, it comes with an ATI 8MB Rage II+ PCI video card. So there is no video ram sharing.

 

[imported_tgenius]

oh yeah.. that's right.. the 400sc does bring a Rage 8MB card! Then it's a no brainer I'll swap it out tommorow morning.