I've been living with poor video ever since I had a video card succumb to the heat over a year ago. I had reverted back to an ATI Fire GL2 card as a temporary replacement, but it was fairly underpowered and had issues attempting to drive my Dell 2405FPW wide format flat panel monitor.
About a month ago, I purchased a Sapphire X1950 Pro card so I can get back to really using my screen and so I could watch videos (which are a key part of any IT training regiment and are needed for certain aspects of the side work I do). The card has plenty of RAM (512MB) and has dual DVI outputs so I can someday run an additional monitor (see Paul Thomsen's multi monitor setup).
I had to buy an AGP based card since I'm still running an older Dell Precision 530 workstation and there were some initial issues with getting the card working, but it is now working great after having to do a BIOS upgrade and making some adjustments to a couple BIOS settings.
If you're interested in a new video card and are still stuck with an AGP based system, then you might want to check this one out.
Published Friday, September 07, 2007 2:38 PM by dthomson
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