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Which card - Voodoo5 or Geforce2?

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From: Adrian Thompson
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 00:00

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I am new to this newsgroup, so I will try to be as precise as possible.
I have a PII-450MHz, 128SDRAM, 6Gb Hdd, and...
I want to upgrade my graphics card from my current, and tortoise-like,
STB Velocity 4400, which is based on the NVidia Riva TNT chipset, with
16mb RAM, to either the Voodoo 5 5000 (or 5500) or the Ge-Force 2
chipset-based card.

Which is best for playing DVDs? (I am having some problems with my
computer and DVDs at the moment.) Would I be better off going for a
separate DVD Decoder card like the Sigma Realmagic Hollywood card?

Also, what is the difference between the Creative Graphics card which is
called the Ge-Force 256 Annihilator Pro and the Ge-Force 2 chipset??

Any help will be greatly appreciated - particularly from anyone in the
UK (where I live!!)

Adrian Thompson

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