HELP QUICK, question

[NYHoustonman]

For a friend, Intel 82845G Graphics Controller (integrated extreme thingy) or Radeon 7000 32MB?

 

[McArra]

Radeon 7000 32mb between those.

 

[NYHoustonman]

Absolutely sure?

 

[McArra]

Between those I think so, but wait a little for other opinions, maybe I'm wrong + Driver support is far better for the radeon. But what is his budget? maybe can get something better for the price.

 

[NYHoustonman]

Aight, yea, apparently it was better... Full story, He has a newer computer and just bought Final Fantasy 11 (maybe demo, i dunno). He had integrated graphics in this computer and a Radeon 7200 in the older one, so I was skeptical, as I thought maybe it came with the computer for a reason. Turns out it didn't come WITH the computer but he had bought it a while back, and I switched it into the new computer and it was definetly faster (and apparently the integrated graphics didn't even support Hardware T&L). So, thanks for the quick input, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't wasting time (if I hadn't gotten a reply, I would have probably waited).

 

[Matthias99]

Don't use Intel Extreme if you have the option -- while its performance is actually OK, it doesn't do DirectX8.1 properly, and so it can't run a lot of newer games.