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To: TGPTNDR who wrote (71086)	2/8/2002 7:44:35 AM
From: rsi_boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

There nothing wrong with a $50 graphics card. Depending on the card (assuming 8mb and >220MHz RamDac) you can certainly run high resolutions just fine in Windows. But you can't do that with i815 integrated video! Even at 1024 your refresh rate is capped at (60-75 Hz) so not only are your eyes hurting from the flickering screen but while you're enjoying that your processor is also choking, starved out for memory bandwidth by the video adapter. An external video card, built anytime in the last five years, will have superior memory bandwidth to integrated video (usually running off pc133) and does it without compromising system performance. The reason you buy an extensive video card is for the other features such as 3-D, video in/out or dual head (which is great btw).

To: TGPTNDR who wrote (71086)	2/8/2002 11:02:46 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

TG, $50 graphics cards are vastly superior to what you get in 810 and 815 integrated motherboards. I don't think these chipsets can even do 1600x1200. I think they do at 8bit color with some 60Hz resolution, which is a complete joke. You can get even $50 graphics card to do 32 bits and 85 Hz at that resolution. Joe

To: TGPTNDR who wrote (71086)	2/8/2002 11:14:27 AM
From: dale_laroy	Respond to of 275872

>And I suspect most people who buy high end graphics cards are being sold a bill of goods.< Maybe, but even if this is not true, it should be realized that integrated graphics is the rule, not the exception. Next time you are in Best Buy, count the number of systems with integrated graphics versus those with graphics cards. My guess is that, with nForce coming out, an even higher percentage of systems will come with integrated graphics.