PowerColour Radeon 9000 PRO 128mb

[Acid_Lad]

What are these like, I'm toying with the idea of buying one.

I'm not a gamer (apart from MS Links 2003), mainly: dvd's, usual stuff like internet, MS Excel programming (lots). What the quality of text with these

Any comments?

Acid_Lad

[KingJackal]

Powercolor = poor quality. Also, you don't need ( and won't use ) a 128MB card.

Buy a 64MB card, and get a better brand - made by ATi's are ( of course ;) ) very good.

BTW, running lots of Excel, I presume you're up at 1600x1200 or higher resolution? And running how many monitors?

( I run two monitors, both at 1600x1200. It's great for larger spreadsheets!! )

[Acid_Lad]

Run 1600 x 1200, one monitor would love 2 monitors one for the worksheets the other for the vba edtior!

Thanks for the advice may go for something like a Leadtek GF4 mx440.

Acid_Lad

[Elle T]

ATI branded cards have the best 2D quality on the market and have done for quite awhile.
A good Radeon 9000 Pro 64mb is far supeior than any GF4 MX.

[Ragnor]

If you're not into gaming and you just want good/the best image quality, then you really want to look at Matrox graphics cards...

[KingJackal]

Originally posted by Ragnor
If you're not into gaming and you just want good/the best image quality, then you really want to look at Matrox graphics cards...

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. No flashy high-speed gaming ( though they'd 'do' gaming ), just THE best 2D quality in the industry.

Period.

[Ragnor]

Fear the pricespy:
http://www.pricespy.co.nz/search.php?search=matrox

What's your budget by the way, how much do you want to spend max..?

[Acid_Lad]

Up to$350. Don't want to get too carried away as I am going to upgrade my speakers and soundcard soon.

Acid_Lad

[CmdrChris]

Originally posted by Elle T
ATI branded cards have the best 2D quality on the market and have done for quite awhile.

*cough* matrox.....

[Elle T]

Matrox have always been majorly over priced for anything but the workstation market.