Nvidia Vs ATI Vs Hollywood plus

[Bretta]

Hello guys.

This is my first time here, looks really good.

I'm a bit of a forum hopper, and after brousing the posts i've learned quite a bit. Thanks. Now to my question. You can see the thread name.

I use my computer for FPS gaming, and watching DVD's As you can see in my signature, i'm in need of a Video Card upgrade. I decode DVD's using PowerDVD XP and the picture quality is a little poor. Fast moving things will become blurry and grained. So with this in mind, I started looking for a Hollywood plus MPEG2 decoder.
I found one on Ebay.com for about $110 (inc shipping and all that)

But being the forum hopper i am......thought id do a bit of research first. I need the VC to be faster, after playing MOH:AA this game pummels the MX into almost circular lumps of PCB and transistors. Anyway, i would rather the picture quality to shear speed, this is why I included ATI in my thoughts, although i have heard bad things about their drivers. I also would like all the nice looking stuff that come with Geforce3. I like the thought of dedicated Hardware for DVD.

Here are my options (please look at my system in the signature and tell me which one is the best option.)

A: Get a Geforce3 Ti200
B: Get an ATI Radeon
C: Get a Hollywood plus DVD decoder.

I know that ATI do some things with DVD, although i do not want a card good in something (DVD) and be really bad at 3D gaming
Will a Geforce3 enhance DVD? Is it worth getting a DVD decoder with my rig?
Any help will be appreciated. If you have a sure good answer....you can E-mail me. Bretta@iprimus.com.au

[Paindriver]

I am running a AMD 1700+ with a Radeon 64mb DDR Graphics Card. As far as playing DVD's the graphics are great. I have had no problems playing in high details, textures...and such in games like Unreal Tournament, Diablo 2, and other games.
In Unreal Tournament i get about 90-100+ Frames per Second. With the human eye you really can't tell the difference after a certain rate.

[Bretta]

Thanks for you help.

You dont think a decoder will be of any use to me?.
I had a look again on the radoen web site, they claim the card can do all this stuff? but what does it mean to me?

HYPERZ™ technology
PIXEL TAPESTRY™ architecture
VIDEO IMMERSION™ technology
Twin Cache Architecture
Single-Pass Multi-texturing (3 textures per clock cycle)
True Color Rendering
Triangle Setup Engine
Texture Cache
Bilinear/Trilinear Filtering
Line & Edge Anti-aliasing
Texture Decompression support under
DirectX® (DXTC) and OpenGL®
Specular Highlights
Perspectively Correct Texture Mapping
Mip-Mapping
Z-buffering and Double-buffering
Emboss, Dot Product 3 and
Environment bump mapping
Spherical, Dual-Paraboloid and Cubic environment mapping
Full Screen Anti-Aliasing (FSAA)

[the_mp3_refuge]

Originally posted by Paindriver
With the human eye you really can't tell the difference after a certain rate.

Yep it's 30 FPS

Bob

[FunK]

Originally posted by the_mp3_refuge


Yep it's 30 FPS

Bob

I can tell the diff between 30 and 90 FPS.

[Jim]

Last I checked, it was about 60fps. Your eye can't see anything faster than that.

[staylor]

Originally posted by Bretta
Hello guys.

This is my first time here, looks really good.

I'm a bit of a forum hopper, and after brousing the posts i've learned quite a bit. Thanks. Now to my question. You can see the thread name.

I use my computer for FPS gaming, and watching DVD's As you can see in my signature, i'm in need of a Video Card upgrade. I decode DVD's using PowerDVD XP and the picture quality is a little poor. Fast moving things will become blurry and grained. So with this in mind, I started looking for a Hollywood plus MPEG2 decoder.
I found one on Ebay.com for about $110 (inc shipping and all that)

But being the forum hopper i am......thought id do a bit of research first. I need the VC to be faster, after playing MOH:AA this game pummels the MX into almost circular lumps of PCB and transistors. Anyway, i would rather the picture quality to shear speed, this is why I included ATI in my thoughts, although i have heard bad things about their drivers. I also would like all the nice looking stuff that come with Geforce3. I like the thought of dedicated Hardware for DVD.

Here are my options (please look at my system in the signature and tell me which one is the best option.)

A: Get a Geforce3 Ti200
B: Get an ATI Radeon
C: Get a Hollywood plus DVD decoder.

I know that ATI do some things with DVD, although i do not want a card good in something (DVD) and be really bad at 3D gaming
Will a Geforce3 enhance DVD? Is it worth getting a DVD decoder with my rig?
Any help will be appreciated. If you have a sure good answer....you can E-mail me. Bretta@iprimus.com.au

[staylor]

Originally posted by Bretta
Hello guys.

This is my first time here, looks really good.

I'm a bit of a forum hopper, and after brousing the posts i've learned quite a bit. Thanks. Now to my question. You can see the thread name.

I use my computer for FPS gaming, and watching DVD's As you can see in my signature, i'm in need of a Video Card upgrade. I decode DVD's using PowerDVD XP and the picture quality is a little poor. Fast moving things will become blurry and grained. So with this in mind, I started looking for a Hollywood plus MPEG2 decoder.
I found one on Ebay.com for about $110 (inc shipping and all that)

But being the forum hopper i am......thought id do a bit of research first. I need the VC to be faster, after playing MOH:AA this game pummels the MX into almost circular lumps of PCB and transistors. Anyway, i would rather the picture quality to shear speed, this is why I included ATI in my thoughts, although i have heard bad things about their drivers. I also would like all the nice looking stuff that come with Geforce3. I like the thought of dedicated Hardware for DVD.

Here are my options (please look at my system in the signature and tell me which one is the best option.)

A: Get a Geforce3 Ti200
B: Get an ATI Radeon
C: Get a Hollywood plus DVD decoder.

I know that ATI do some things with DVD, although i do not want a card good in something (DVD) and be really bad at 3D gaming
Will a Geforce3 enhance DVD? Is it worth getting a DVD decoder with my rig?
Any help will be appreciated. If you have a sure good answer....you can E-mail me. Bretta@iprimus.com.au

Its crap, go with nvidia,Bigjmslate and Jz like Cartoons,and own a gamecube. need I say more?