Poll: TNT2 Vanta owners - any problems?

[dullard]

I see that the TNT2 Vanta cards are having some problems with color bleeding. Anything that is to be displayed as a dark spot will bleed horizontally dark pixels across the entire screen width. I've recently ran into two computers with the same TNT2 Vanta problem. Now MNParrotHead says he has two Vanta cards that recently failed with the same problem. Is this a major bug in this line of video cards?

Off topic a bit: What budget card should I buy for mostly 2D graphics and a little gaming? The Matrox line seems to have praise. Will the Matrox G400 be faster or slower than the TNT2 for gaming?

 

[bjc112]

a radeon would work also....

 

[salfter]

<< I see that the TNT2 Vanta cards are having some problems with color bleeding. Anything that is to be displayed as a dark spot will bleed horizontally dark pixels across the entire screen width. I've recently ran into two computers with the same TNT2 Vanta problem. >>



A machine at work started doing this about a month ago. I thought it might've been an LCD problem at first (it looked like an old-school passive-matrix display), but swapping in another monitor didn't fix it. If I could've gotten an ATI something-or-other for it at the time (I use an AIW Radeon at home), I would've gotten that. I ended up with a GeForce2 MX 400, which works OK most of the time but occasionally shows some "ringing" going from bright to dark areas.

 

[FishTankX]

For gaming, G400 roughly equals TNT2.

For gaming, G400 MAX beats the TNT2.

For a good card, I could reccomend a Savage4 or SiS315 as long as it's not a P4 machine.

If you're strictly doing 2D work, G400MAX/450 are the way to go..

 

[boran]

I had it about an age ago, I didnt have any problems with it ... is long gone now to abuddy, but he hasnt got problems with it either ...