Do all DVI/out video cards look the same on a digital LCD?

[bupkus]

In the argument of text vs. graphics:

I bought a Matrox G450 so I could get the best 2D for my text work using a CRT. But now I'm thinking both games and digital DVI.

If I get a digital LCD, does this argument just not apply? IOW, do all DVI out video cards look the same on a digital LCD?

 

[AnAndAustin]

Well I can't comment from personal experience but in theory all DVI ports should be the same, the variance in IQ is down to the messy conversions to and from analogue/digital and the degradations which occur. DVI is fully digital so should not share all this out-dated peculiarity and irregularity.

DVI certainly suits IQ but gaming and video are not suited to flat panel displays. You shouldn't lose much IQ by switching to Rad8500LE-128, Rad9000PRO or GF4TI4200 all of which are VERY capable gaming cards with very respectible IQ and DVI ports too should you later want it. IIRC G450 is about as fast as GF2MX in 3D, not great 2 years ago but certainly well below par now. If you use res at or above 1600x1200x32 @ 75Hz+ then a Radeon is a good idea. I take it you can't afford the Parhelia512 and have given up waiting for a 'budget' version?

 

[Rand]

Through DVI output all graphics cards will offer similar quality, there will be incremental differences but nothing very significant at all.
Quality scaling through resolutions is still impacted by the graphics card to some degree though.
Viewing through DVI on an LCD FP Monitor is primarily dependent upon the monitor itself and the cabling for image quality.

IIRC G450 is about as fast as GF2MX in 3D

I would tend to disagree, the G400Max was similar to the GF2 MX200 which is considerably slower then the reg. GF2 MX. The G450 was even slower then the old G400, let alone the G400 Max.

 

[bupkus]

Edit: the following refers to playing my Demo version of UT2003.


Currently I'm using a G550 with an Iwill KK266 mobo using the KT133A chipset.
The cpu is a 900MHz OCd to 1GHz unlocked with an fsb=133 using 256M SDRAM.

Suprisingly its faster than a recent build using an ASUS A7N266-VM nforce1 chipset and onboard Nvidia video sporting an XP 1600+ with only 128 DDR.
Actually, it's strange. The image flows better on the G550 but on the ASUS it's choppier and "dangerous" (I get killed alot easier).

Yet on the ASUS everywhere I walk my character gets there alot quicker.??

 

[AnAndAustin]

nForce1 o/b gfx is about equivilent to a GF2MX200, as Rand said it's a fair bit slower than the old regular GF2MX and even more so that the GF2MX400 let alone the GF4MX or GF2TI! With gfx cards as slow as these the CPU is of little relevance, certainly past 1ghz.

Managed to find some bms on Matrox's G450 cards:

TomsHW RadVE review (inc Matrox G450 & GF2MX)

AnAndTech RadVE review (inc GF2MX, RadSDR, V4, Matrox G450)