James Fee
05-02-2005, 10:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=1334' target='_blank'>http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=1334</a><br /><br /></div><i>"What they're not is powerful, with quite modest specs. The TurboCache is clocked at 350MHz for both the core and the memory, coupled with four pixel pipelines and three vertex shaders. The ATI specs are slightly lower at 325/300, with four pixel pipelines and two vertex shaders. The nVidia's specs look better on paper, but, as Alan Hanson would say, games aren't played on paper."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/ativnvidea.jpg" /> <br /><br />I used to be so up on video cards and what made one card better than the other, but these days it is so hard with all these "shaders", "pipelines", and "overclocked memory" that you have no real idea what you need. Actually, after reading this article, I still don't really know what the difference is. Basically if you don't play games on your PC, most of this just doesn't matter (or so it seems).