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Title: Help deciding on a video card
Post by: cmoses on October 18, 2012, 12:12:48 pm

I am working on my second project. A cocktail cabinet and I just acquired a computer and need to decide on a video card for the machine. I used a Nvidia card on my first cabinet and it worked fine.

My cabinet will initially have a computer LCD monitor in it but down the road I may either opt to go with a arcade LCD which can do CGA/EGA/VGA resolutions or I may see about repairing the arcade monitor that was in the cab. So I would like to find the best solution for all of those possibilities.

I am not sure if a Ultimarc AVGA card, a regular ATI card or a Nvidia card is the best option. The motherboard I have has a PCI-E slot in it.

I have been very pleased with some test results I did using a computer LCD and HLSL in MAME. So I may just stay with that.

Any suggestions on any of these would be great.

Thanks

Title: Re: Help deciding on a video card
Post by: LeedsFan on October 19, 2012, 02:02:01 pm

I did some playing around with HLSL in Mame and I too was very impressed with the results on LCD screens. You only to have the card support Pixel shader 3.0 in order to get support for that. So any cheapo modern card should be fine.

Title: Re: Help deciding on a video card
Post by: DeLuSioNal29 on October 22, 2012, 04:21:24 pm

I use this and it works great:

ATI Radeon HD4670 PCI-E (GIGABYTE model GV-R467ZL-1GI). You can find cheap HD4670's on ebay for around $50. Just make sure it has 1GB of ram.

The card above also works with Soft 15Khz for your future arcade monitor needs.

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Title: Re: Help deciding on a video card
Post by: MTPPC on October 26, 2012, 11:25:54 pm

Pick a card that is compatible with soft15khz so when you eventually upgrade to a CGA CRT you are ready to go.