DVD Not Clear On Playback

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 12:52:45PM -0400, Glen Strom wrote:
> I don't know either. Although the machine is old, the DVD playback was
> smooth and, other than the ghosting, showed no problems--no dropped
> frames and the sound was steady. That's why I wonder if the problem is
> the card. Perhaps upgrading to a newer video card with a Nvidia chipset
> would be the answer. What might be a good choice for a machine this old?

Well depends what you expect it to do.  I assume it is AGP given the
CPU, so for that the FX5200 is nice (if you don't intend to do any heavy
3D ever), as is the 6200 (I would avoid the stupid turbo cache versions
though).  For performance 3D the 6600GT was a great card but is now
nearly imposible to find.  The 7900GS is very fast too although then you
are starting to look at probably $300 for a video card for a very old
machine, which probably makes no sense.

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Len Sorensen
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