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Eric94GT
09/28/2001, 07:30 PM
Does anybody have or know where I can get a good inexpensive AGP video card? Id like one with video/audio input/output so that i can do some video editing and uploading. ive heard too much crap about the dazzle POS pretty much cause you cant send video back out. any suggestions?
rebby
09/28/2001, 07:31 PM
ati all in wonder might work for ya.
MN Probe GT
09/28/2001, 07:34 PM
Yeah, ati all in wonder isn't the best card out there, but it does just about everything. video in and out is very nice. I like it. But at home I have the plain jane 64MB nvidia geforce 2 ultra.
Eric94GT
09/28/2001, 07:36 PM
how much is that card? the pos that is in here right now is an 8mb nvidia tnt2 (wtf is that?)
MN Probe GT
09/28/2001, 07:43 PM
what a pile of shit. in my POS packard bell from 1995 I put in a 16MB riva tnt (I cant remember if it was 2 or not...I think it was tnt2) well...thats beter than the 11MB shared video memory this junker has. But that video card won't do shit for ya. the all in wonder depends on the amount of memory you get, but I think you can have it for just over $100.
Eric94GT
09/28/2001, 07:47 PM
cool. i dont do anything for video games on my computer (i leave that for Nintendo/Sony : ) so that probably would work good. All i really want is video/audio out/in. if dazzle worked good and had an output i would probably get that, but it isnt so oh well. is this video card AGP and where do i get it?
MN Probe GT
09/28/2001, 07:49 PM
www.pricewatch.com


dazzle is a pile of shit.
Eric94GT
09/28/2001, 08:15 PM
is a duron 700 comparable to a P3?
Eric94GT
09/28/2001, 08:17 PM
damn, they have it on other sites for $200 and on pricewatch for ~$100
MN Probe GT
09/28/2001, 09:41 PM
pricewatch is the shit yo!

Go to best buy and pay $300+ lol


it's how I find all my good deals.
Eric94GT
10/01/2001, 02:04 PM
pricewatch doenst seem to have the best deals on monitors though :(
tracer bullet
10/01/2001, 07:26 PM
The All-In-Wonder is your best bet. You can get an old one for fairly cheap if you don't care about gaming performance.

If you do want cheap for both though - I'd get a PCI All-In-Wonder, and then a Geforece MX AGP card. Combination could still be about $150 or less.

Either way a seperate add-on could work in a PCI slot, might be less work too. Go to Best Buy and see what they have, check them out, and then go mail order it from somewhere for less.

Pricewatch rocks!

P3 is usually better than Duron at the same speed, but it depends on what you're doing. For games, go P3. For word processing, definitely Duron. For anything in between, check your wallet and decide.

Shit, 1.4 Athlons are running $101 or so, why bother looking at anything else?
Eric94GT
10/01/2001, 07:30 PM
im saying that the 700 Duron is what I have in my desktop right now. I am really low on pci slots so im not going to get two cards, one is fine. i just want some vid in/out and same with audio so i can do some video editing. thats all i really need it for otherwise id stick with the one ive got.
rebby
10/01/2001, 07:31 PM
Originally posted by tracer bullet
Shit, 1.4 Athlons are running $101 or so, why bother looking at anything else? SMP support for the athon is still kinda expensive... i still wanna try it though... i mean dual 1.4's would be sweet w/ddr ram... <drool>