Joe,

Make ya a deal.  I give advice, you give me your 21' monitor?

Seriously, though, I would get the TNT2 card.  You won't get the full
benefit of this card because your AGP is most likely 1X, but it will
definitely boost the graphics capability.  Sorry, but Number Nine's aren't
very good cards.  I just installed a TNT2 16MB PCI card in a clients older
system, and now it rocks (with respect to the way it used to handle video on
it's 4MB integrated setup).

I like the Radeon, but you only gain an advantage with it when running real
high resolutions (above 1024x768), and I haven't seen anything yet that
convinces me that even this is truth.  I do know that Nvidia makes great
products, and they also do a good job of keeping their drivers updated (ATI
falls down on this point).

My 2 cents worth.

Hope this helps.

Kyle Elmblade
Distinct Computer Solutions
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From: "Joe Craven" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 1:42 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] New Game, Old Video


My daughters gave me a great game for Christmas - B-17 Flying Fortress II.
The graphics are crapola because of my antiquated system, which is as
follows.
Micron Millennia XKU Tower
300 Mhz Pentium II
WD 4.2 UW SCSI HDD
128 RAM Memory
Number Nine Revolution 3-D Video Card w/8MB
2940 UW SCSI Host
20x Plextor SCSI CD-ROM
Hitachi 21' Monitor
SB AWE 64 Sound Card

Is it possible to just change out my current video card with a new Radeon
32DDR or a NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS 32MB DDR (like Leadtek) and realize most of
the potential of this game or must I completely rebuild the system with new
MB, CPU, memory and so on? Would the ATI driver problems be a factor here?
What might be the best video card for my limited system if I wanted to stay
under $200? I appreciate anyone taking a moment to ponder this
not-too-important
problem, since my ignorance factor is higher than most.

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