I recently bought an MSI Ti4800SE 8xAGP 128MB with the new system I was putting together. I had been a long time sufferer of ATI's driver insanity w/ my ATI AIW Radeon and previous ATI cards.
The first thing I noticed with this card is that the 2D display is horrendous compared to my old ATI which is in my old system side by side w/ my new one. Both are at 1600x1200@32bit (80Hz)..The MSI is blurry, milky somewhat. It is actually very hard to look at the display without my eyes starting to hurt. It looks a 'little' better when I take it a notch down to 1280x1024 (100Hz)but still does not compare to the ATI 2D display which is crisp and sharp with great colour. Is this just what Nvidia's display is like or could it just be my card or is there some setting I am missing?
I have to say that this is quite disappointing as I am moving from my archaic P3B-F/PIII-600...which is slow as can be but was a workhorse of dependability. It would stay up and nary a crash for months.
Another anomalyis which is occurring is my system just randomly (well not randomly as I am sure their is a reason for it) reboots on its own every so often. For example, if I am on the desktop and go to diplay properties and hit "advanced" it simply rebooted once. Another instance I plugged in a USB device and it rebooted (I guess that one cannot be attributed to the video device however?). But all the other times the system rebooted it was when I did something involving the video.
Owltech 68/400 case
Athlon XP 2400+
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
512MB PC3200 (2x256)
MSI Ti4800SE 8xAGP 128MB
Maxtor 80GB 7200rpm 8MB cache
Plextor 48/24/48A
Matsushita 8x DVD
Mitsumi floppy
Windows XP Professional
Any input that you guys may have would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks.
The first thing I noticed with this card is that the 2D display is horrendous compared to my old ATI which is in my old system side by side w/ my new one. Both are at 1600x1200@32bit (80Hz)..The MSI is blurry, milky somewhat. It is actually very hard to look at the display without my eyes starting to hurt. It looks a 'little' better when I take it a notch down to 1280x1024 (100Hz)but still does not compare to the ATI 2D display which is crisp and sharp with great colour. Is this just what Nvidia's display is like or could it just be my card or is there some setting I am missing?
I have to say that this is quite disappointing as I am moving from my archaic P3B-F/PIII-600...which is slow as can be but was a workhorse of dependability. It would stay up and nary a crash for months.
Another anomalyis which is occurring is my system just randomly (well not randomly as I am sure their is a reason for it) reboots on its own every so often. For example, if I am on the desktop and go to diplay properties and hit "advanced" it simply rebooted once. Another instance I plugged in a USB device and it rebooted (I guess that one cannot be attributed to the video device however?). But all the other times the system rebooted it was when I did something involving the video.
Owltech 68/400 case
Athlon XP 2400+
Asus A7N8X Deluxe
512MB PC3200 (2x256)
MSI Ti4800SE 8xAGP 128MB
Maxtor 80GB 7200rpm 8MB cache
Plextor 48/24/48A
Matsushita 8x DVD
Mitsumi floppy
Windows XP Professional
Any input that you guys may have would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks.
P3-450 with TNT2U, with a Matrox G400 since I do not game much and need crisper texts. 
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