Brief background: I'm sick and tired of the Dell-morass that constituates the personal computer situation for close relatives, friends and other close people, ie people helping me with things. They shouldn't have to be so miserable.
Despite knowing better (don't get involved in a support responsibility) I've decided to take charge personally in at least a couple of cases, fixing them up with machinery that can actually do anything at all, beyond email. :disgust:
The thing about support is that I'm involved anyway. At least I will have decent computers to deal with, with documented and supported hardware, and standard bios and OS.
The main plan is s754 and 1.6GHz Sempron (These people live with slow hd, insane constant swapping, bus sharing Intel graphics, sub-GHz Celerons, on the limit PSU. But won't spend much more than they see in Dell's lowest ads. And they will try a game now and then and ask why it runs so poorly. And they would love to be able to manage family video/photo on the computer. The plan is not to provide professional/enthusiast performance. The plan is to provide credible capability and workable performance. I think a 1.6GHz free breathing Sempron will knock their socks off. Any money will be spent on ram, 8MB cache hd, and decent video).
Problem is I've never taken much interest in bottom end budget. And the web doesn't offer much help either. Every hardware site is full of SLI, Crossfire, "Ultra", X1800, Gf7800, but no effort is made to size up cheap parts.
So if anyone here has an intense passion for lesser videocard technology, please feel free to help me out. In any way. The goal is to provide flexible capabilities. TV/video capture would be nice. And "tolerable" 3D-game and OpenGL properties.
First have a look at my check questions:
R-X600 is actually the same as R-9600xt, only the PCI-e version, right?
R-X300 is actually the very same again, only clocked lower, right?
So only the R-X700 is a new product, beside the even newer R-X1300, right?
The non-GT GF6600 does pretty well, doesn't it?
GF6200 is a halved GF6600, right?
GF6600LE is really a GF6200, but with improved AA performance, right?
GF6200 and GF6600 have some built in video playback, right?
R-X1300 have built in video capture as well, right?
Then try to answer:
What is a GF6800XT and how does it relate to GF6800LE?
Are the R-X800GT and R-X800GTO crippled R-X800s ?
And wouldn't that make them sort of similar to R-9800?
How do you rate X700 vs X1300?
What makes R-X700pro different from X700?
What is X550? Anything to care about?
What is GF6500? Anything to care about?
I should spend the extra bucks for PCI-e and get the R-X1300pro, never mind the rest?
I should bust the budget for the 'gamer' and get him R-X800GT?
Despite knowing better (don't get involved in a support responsibility) I've decided to take charge personally in at least a couple of cases, fixing them up with machinery that can actually do anything at all, beyond email. :disgust:
The thing about support is that I'm involved anyway. At least I will have decent computers to deal with, with documented and supported hardware, and standard bios and OS.
The main plan is s754 and 1.6GHz Sempron (These people live with slow hd, insane constant swapping, bus sharing Intel graphics, sub-GHz Celerons, on the limit PSU. But won't spend much more than they see in Dell's lowest ads. And they will try a game now and then and ask why it runs so poorly. And they would love to be able to manage family video/photo on the computer. The plan is not to provide professional/enthusiast performance. The plan is to provide credible capability and workable performance. I think a 1.6GHz free breathing Sempron will knock their socks off. Any money will be spent on ram, 8MB cache hd, and decent video).
Problem is I've never taken much interest in bottom end budget. And the web doesn't offer much help either. Every hardware site is full of SLI, Crossfire, "Ultra", X1800, Gf7800, but no effort is made to size up cheap parts.
So if anyone here has an intense passion for lesser videocard technology, please feel free to help me out. In any way. The goal is to provide flexible capabilities. TV/video capture would be nice. And "tolerable" 3D-game and OpenGL properties.
First have a look at my check questions:
R-X600 is actually the same as R-9600xt, only the PCI-e version, right?
R-X300 is actually the very same again, only clocked lower, right?
So only the R-X700 is a new product, beside the even newer R-X1300, right?
The non-GT GF6600 does pretty well, doesn't it?
GF6200 is a halved GF6600, right?
GF6600LE is really a GF6200, but with improved AA performance, right?
GF6200 and GF6600 have some built in video playback, right?
R-X1300 have built in video capture as well, right?
Then try to answer:
What is a GF6800XT and how does it relate to GF6800LE?
Are the R-X800GT and R-X800GTO crippled R-X800s ?
And wouldn't that make them sort of similar to R-9800?
How do you rate X700 vs X1300?
What makes R-X700pro different from X700?
What is X550? Anything to care about?
What is GF6500? Anything to care about?
I should spend the extra bucks for PCI-e and get the R-X1300pro, never mind the rest?
I should bust the budget for the 'gamer' and get him R-X800GT?
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