rmatei
31st December 2001, 22:42
I’m assembling myself a new computer and I’m stuck on choosing a new graphics card. Actually, I’m stuck choosing between a Radeon (7500, 8500) and a Geforce (3, Ti-xxx), and I have 3 questions.
1: Video playback will be very important, and I heard all Radeons do bicubic resampling, which is much better than bilinear when playing full screen. Do the Geforces do bicubic as well? Well I couldn’t find out anything on it, and if they don’t that pretty much excludes any Geforce card.
2: I read things in the past about video cards not enabling overlay when the video width is not a multiple of 32. Which cards have this problem? It wouldn’t be too big since most of my movies aren’t that way and there are some workarounds but it would still be nice to know.
3: Again I vaguely recall reading about problems between some video cards and VIA chipsets but I didn’t pay attention to it at the time. So are there problems?
PS Is any brand’s TV out good/bad compared to the other one’s or are the differences negligible?
1: Video playback will be very important, and I heard all Radeons do bicubic resampling, which is much better than bilinear when playing full screen. Do the Geforces do bicubic as well? Well I couldn’t find out anything on it, and if they don’t that pretty much excludes any Geforce card.
2: I read things in the past about video cards not enabling overlay when the video width is not a multiple of 32. Which cards have this problem? It wouldn’t be too big since most of my movies aren’t that way and there are some workarounds but it would still be nice to know.
3: Again I vaguely recall reading about problems between some video cards and VIA chipsets but I didn’t pay attention to it at the time. So are there problems?
PS Is any brand’s TV out good/bad compared to the other one’s or are the differences negligible?