Re: ATI X1600 Cards

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From: SchoolTech
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:54

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SchoolTech wrote:
> Looking at a couple of models available in NZ:
> 
> Asus EAX1600PRO Video Card, Radeon X1600 Pro, 512MB, DDR2, PCIe-16, TV 
> out, DVI Dual head NZ$272
> 
> 
> Gigabyte GV-RX16P256DE-RH Video Card, Radeon X1600 Pro, 256MB, DDR2, 
> PCIe-16, TV out, DVI, HDTV, CrossFire Dual head NZ$275.85
> 
> Pricing from ascent.co.nz
> 
> Are these good brands, considering there is a lot of cheap and nasty 
> junk out there?

To clarify
The card is to be used for high end presentation software - not gaming.

The DirectX9 capabilities with larger amounts of video memory are being 
used by developers these days to design software that can do fancy 
presentation effects, like motion backgrounds and live video with text 
superimposition etc etc.

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