ati rage fury pro 32 or v4?

[hojl]

I saw at OD the ati rage fury pro 32 for 99.99-40rebate and they also had a v4 and v3
which should I get? This is gonna go into a box I am making for my parents. I plan on installing a DVD player, and a TV tuner, and they are just going to surf the net and do office stuff.


So what do you guys think?
Ati Rage fury pro for about 60?
V4 for 89?
v3 for 79-30(rebate)=50?

 

[EdipisReks]

the DVD playback is a lot better on the ATI card, than on the voodoo4. is OD office depot?

--jacob

 

[hojl]

yes it is...

 

[hojl]

Does anybody have the ATI rage fury pro 32meg?? how is the DVD playback? I am thinking of getting a 12x DVD player. Would it be choppy or any problems?? I don't currently have a DVD player on my system (no need) so I don't know what type of problems I might get from the ati rage fury pro32meg and 12 speed dvd. By the way it will be a vc820 mobo with a 600 or 700 cpu.

 

[Workin']

I have that card, and I like it a lot - now. Can't say the same when I first got it. Setting it up so that everything worked correctly was a trip through hell. Running under Win 98SE, Celeron 300@464 on an Abit BH6, 128MB RAM. OpenGL, Direct3d, DVD playback, and video in/capture all work fine now that ATi's finally made a decent driver set.

The drivers to use are the latest Win98/ME drivers from ATi's website. Don't even let the drivers on the CD get near your computer! You can instll the other software (DVD player, video capture, etc.) off the CD, just make sure you don't use the shipping drivers!

DVD playback is smooth and silky on the monitor, and pretty damn nice through the S-video TV-out, too. You shouldn't have any problems with the setup you propose. Game performance is pretty good, I use 32-bit color at 1024x768 and Quake II flies, QIII also works just fine. 2D quality for office apps is also excellent.

What chipset does a vc820 mobo use? If it's Intel, you should be fine. Some ATi video cards are finicky about non-Intel chipsets, you might want to troll/post this question on the boards at Rage Underground.

 

[WhiteMouse]

I have this card also, but I have problem w/ ATI's DVD player. It cannot play certain DVDs, like Disney's titles. I am using WinDVD now and it's perfect. Windows may try to share IRQ for this video card, but it will cause trouble to video-in. ATI knows this problem, but they do not know the solution, which I finally found from news group.

The 12X for DVD is only for the data reading. If only for playing DVD movies, 1X is enough.

I heard ATI has good DVD HW decoding. But I am running C2 600@900 and 256M RAM, so I don't know. Using Video-in, you can even record copyright-protected movie, if you want.