[CUBE] Fwd: [CUBE] Geforce3 VGA and DVI

[a l a n t h o m p s o n]

interesting points, all.

however, if you'd like to use the USB ports on your ADC monitor, I 
don't believe you could with the DVI to ADC adapter.

What I assume is that if you want ADC, it's because you already have a 
ADC flat panel (or that 17" studio tube-based display).  at that point, 
you have to decide between the noise the GF3 will make (I've heard some 
horrific tales on the sound - unless you do the recently radeon 9000 
mod with that cool fan, with the blue LED, and the cost of the card 
itself with ADC already present (basically an OEM, or pulled card) 
which sell for quite a lot still(it's that people know that us 
fetish...er, cube fans want to keep our cubes going for as long as 
possible).

my thought is that you won't need the GF3 unless you're a gamer.

best bet?  upgrade your processor, as it does more than its share of 
the graphics processing, despite the "next best thing since sliced 
bread" quartz extreme.

then, i would recommend upgrading the RAM, disk, and then either a 
radeon 7500 or GF2 MX (all with ADC, including the twin view variants 
if that's important to you).

--alan

On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 05:03 PM, RedEclipseTurbo wrote:

> As far as value goes it's true that if you are hooking this up to an 
> Apple ADC display you are going to spend about the same money:
> Apple GF3 (ADC & VGA) ~$300 + Apple ADC 17" LCD Display ~$700  = ~$1000
> PC GF3 (DVI & VGA) ~$220 + Apple ADC 17" LCD Display ~$700 + DVI to 
> ADC adapter ~$85  = ~$1005 (www.macs4all.com has the cheapest DVI-ADC 
> adapters I've seen)