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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: tshizzle.com on August 29, 2004, 02:58:30 pm
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Something that does S-Video of course. AGP. Under $100, but not some cheap 4mb crap that wont run anything 3d. Something decent.
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what are you trying to use it for mame? other pc games? movies? need a little info on what you plan on using it for....if it is soley for mame look at the recent 21" monitor or 25" tv thread as i have already explained what IMO is the absolute best.
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well yea, mainly for mame. But Im not gonna do a conversion or anything crazy, I just want the standard TV in there.
Basically Ive read some card, mainly Geforce MX series cards, have some ---smurfy--- TV outs. Is there any particular card you or anyone knows of that seems to put out a better picture than others is my question
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I've seen cards on both sides (ATI and nVidia) under $100 in Fry's "in-store-only" ads lately.
If you look HERE (http://shop4.outpost.com/category/Outpost/PCtab/Video+Cards?accipterAreaString=) you can get some of their online prices.
They've got a BUNCH of 128 meg, 8x AGP cards that are under $100.
If you bump to $110 they've even got a 256Meg BFG card running a GF FX5200.
I usually buy BFG cards for my gaming rigs because I've had good luck with them for years now, but I've seen cards from other manufacturers that perform equally as well.
The CARD end is important, but the TV end is equally important.
I've got a Radeon 7000 card in my cabinet, that puts a bad picture to my 20" no-name TV, but a relatively good one to my Toshiba widescreen.
The BFG GF4 card I have puts a slightly better picture (still pretty bad though) to the 20", but about the same to the widescreen.