Kryo II or VISIONTEK Xtasy 5632 GEFORCE2 GTS-V

[bgJR]

Hi All,


I am putting a system together for my little sister and trying to keep it low priced.

MB = ECS Ks75a
OS = Win 98SE
CPU = 1Ghz AMD (haven't decided here yet)
512 SDRAM PC133


What would you all recommend for a video card below $120. She basically just plays sim games and watches DVD's. So the card has to have dvd playback capability.

If the card is a little more expensive and you feel it would be a good choice please leave a reply.


All suggestions and links to any appropriate reviews are greatly appreciated.


Thanks,

BG

 

[SRman]

I had a Kryo II card. I liked it, but I kept getting little white dots when playing counterstrike, which I could not stand. I tried everything to correct the problem, but never could. Before the Kryo I had a Herc TnT card. To replace the Kryo, I got in on the after turkey day $99 GF3ti200. I love the card. I have also read where others have experience anomolies with the Kryo II. I would get the GF2. The driver support in my opinion is also better with the GF cards.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Get the Visiontek GF2. I was using one on my K7S5A before my 8500 came and it was a great card, especiallly for the price. If you want to play with it, you can download NVmax to overclock.

Also, get DDR ram for that mobo. Cost about the same but better performance.

 

[vedin]

Oh for the love of Mike! How many people misspell this card? The KYRO is going to be roughly as fast as the GTS. For DVDs though, you prolly don't want either. Both will do them, just not terribly well. And again, the performance and quality will be roughly the same. If, however, you aren't a speed freak, and you want to watch a lot of DVDs, I say get a Radeon. The 32 meg DDR is about 60-70 bucks right now on pricewatch. Of course, if you ever get into playing some really intense shooter games, that probably isn't the best choice.

 

[mithrandir2001]

A Voodoo3 should be plenty, really, but if you can afford to spend $70 (you state $120), either card (Kyro, GTS-V) should work. I'd lean toward the GTS-V because you'll get Nvidia's unified drivers.

 

[johndoe23]

but there will not be new drivers released for the voodoo cuz 3dfx is gone

 

[eplebnista]

Hello,

I'd recommend the Radeon 7500 for $124 shipped at Newegg.com. It has excellent 2d and DVD playback quality.

hth,
eplebnista

 

[Crapgame]

Well I'lll just second the only sain suggestion on here for the ATI7500.


She basically just plays sim games and watches DVD's.

 

[Workin']

Well, I like the ATI cards, too. However...

I have a 1 GHz Athlon paired up with the Visiontek GTS-V and it certainly has no problems whatsoever playing DVDs! Anyone who says a 1 GHz CPU paired with a graphics card with DVD motion compensation built in (which would be any geforce card) can't play DVDs well has obviously never tried it, or else has a majorly defective setup. Or is talking out their ass.

The only reason I would not get the GTS-V is if you need TV-out, and then I would get a Radeon.

 

[mithrandir2001]

The Radeon 7500 is too expensive for this person's needs. The reason why I mentioned the Voodoo3 was because I found it powerful enough to render DVD movies full screen...even with a 800MHz Celeron II. But I wouldn't buy it because support is waning.

The quality of DVD playback is not limited to just the video card, but also the DVD software. Use a crappy software player and it doesn't matter how great the video card is. But if you want an ATI card, then just get the Radeon LE for $67 shipped at newegg...it is registry hackable to closely match the performance of a regular Radeon (now called the 7200?). For just sim games and DVD, the 7500 is overkill and a waste of money.

 

[Brian48]

I really like the KyroII (have a KyroI myself), but I'd have to give the nod to the GTS-V. For price, you just can't beat it. It is very compatible with most hardware/software and the drivers are very solid.

 

[jmitchell]

I have used both the kryoII and GTS-V on my system, and the Geforce whooped the kryo easily. My cpu is only a p3 733, which was not quite enough to satisfy the T&L-less Kryo. I would say that the image quality is very similar on both cards. The Kryo went back to fry's....

 

[bgJR]

To all,

I decided to go with the visiontek even though I already have a semi spare radeon LE laying that I might try out.


Sorry for the incorrect spelling actually i just did a cut and paste and never bothered to look closely at the spelling.


Thanks,


BG