[aclug-L] Re: Radeon 32meg PCI

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My experience has been mostly with the All-in-Wonder cards, which I think
are the worst.  Some of the ATI cards I guess are okay.  *shrug*

'course, the nicest card I have now can't even touch a crappy ATI card :)


On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:41:13PM -0500, David Carmichael wrote:
> 
> John -
> 
> Thanks for the input.. but what is strange is that the ATI line of video
> cards is the most supported by Microsoft!
> 
> I hope that does not stop somebody from purchasing the card.. I just warn
> anybody to check and make sure that your MoBo and Chips set are supported.
> 
> I did not have any troubles with the PC/CHIPS VIA Apollo 4, based Socket 7
> board in the system that you just purchased.. I was able to run dual
> monitors and with "PowerDVD-XP" run DVD movies full screen using the
> 'Radeon" as the second monitor while the main VIA/Trident monitor did its
> thing.
> 
> 
> --David
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Hall" <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <discussion@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 7:07 PM
> Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Radeon 32meg PCI
> 
> 
> >
> > In my experience, Radeon cards conflict with most CPUs and with most
> > motherbaords.  In other words, they are crap :)
> >
> > Especially the PCI models which, as I understand it, try to somehow
> > magicially emulate AGP... and that gets gross.
> >
> > The problems I'm aware of are also agrivated under certian operating
> > systems--most notibly, Windows 2000 and XP, if memory serves.
> >
> > -- Jonathan
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:26:32PM -0500, David Carmichael wrote:
> > >
> > > Due to motherboard conflicts (AMD Athlon + Asus/HP MB does not like the
> ATI
> > > card per a large number of newsgroup postings) I have the following for
> > > sale:
> > >
> > > ATI Radeon  PCI  32meg video card w/svhs out (+ svhs to composite video
> > > adapter)
> > >
> > > Paid new in December '2001:  $100.00
> > >
> > > Asking : $40.00
> > >
> > > I use to use this card on a 400mhz AMD K6-3 system for DVD software
> playback
> > > and the images were great!
> > >
> > > I had hoped to use this card in my new system.. but I could never get it
> to
> > > work correctly and started doing some 'Google' searches and found that I
> am
> > > not the only user that has troubles with this video card, CPU, and
> > > motherboard combo.
> > >
> > > It looks as if I will have to be getting a NVida based video card.
> > >
> > > --David
> > > 316-524-0246
> > >
> > >
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