Hello, it's like Karl recommended: Matrox G450 and G550 seem to be the 'winners' concerning 2D desktop applications. Not only because of image quality, also because of signal integrity. (This statement is to be found in PC magazines.) We use it as standard card for our image processing systems. Some cards offer nice features. E.g. the Elsa Erazor series. They can work as a frame grabber for PAL and NTSC as well. Hard core gamers need DirectX 8 cards and in the future DirectX 9 (it isn't supported by games yet). Examples are ATI Radeon 9500, ATI Radeon 9500 PRO and ATI Radeon 9700 or the GeForce4 as stated by a pf member before. But maybe (may - not must!) for these cards 'speed goes before quality'. Needless to say you can spoil all efforts with a bad monitor. I would check features like colour temperature, (stability of) calibration and so on. Regards, Walter __ Email: walter.preiss@fen-net.de -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: "Bruce A Wolff" <balobo@juno.com> An: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> Gesendet: Montag, 3. März 2003 15:51 Betreff: Video Card > I am looking for a recommendation on a video card for a PC. Any special > considerations to consider? > Thanks for your help! > >
