On 20 Nov 2004 at 15:34, Graywolf wrote: > Your list is pretty good except for the video card thingy. For games, for > video, > you need the fastest 3D card with the most memory you can afford. For 2D > graphics that is not truly neccessary. As long as it has enough memory to > keep a > couple of screens available at whatever resolution you work at (say 8mb or > so), > and is not so old as to be bus bound, almost any fairly modern card should do.
I'm not quite with you on this point, a lot of even fairly modern expensive/popular cards aren't a good choice an image editing stand-point. For a great (though obviously biased) discussion of what differentiates video cards see: http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/tech_info/pdfs/parhelia/us_displ.pdf Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
