Ok sorry about the complete change in subject but are a graphics card and a video cards the same thing? This guy is building me a computer and he says he'll put a ATI PCI-E 256 MB blah blah blah graphics card in it, I corrected him and said it was a video card but then he tells me its the same thing. If you ask me I think Graphics card and Video Card are not the same thing because when I had a old dell and tryed to put LOMAC on it wouldn't work cuz I had a intergrated graphics card and I needed a video card but if graphics card and video card were the same thing I wouldn't of had a problem in the first place....
New PC specs:
AMD Athlon 64 3800 dual-core
MB S939 MSI K8N NEO4-F PRI Express
Integrated Audio
2 GB DDR 400
CD DVD +/- RW 16x WHT Dual Layer
Black Floppy Drive 3.5'' 1.44 MB
PCI-E ATI x800 256 MB
CON FIREWIRE q-stor PCI
CASE: ANT SLK2650 Black
Microsoft Windows XP Extreme
Whutchya Think??
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Graphics Card vs. Video Card
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Topic spilt from other thread in this forum. Why not post a new topic instead of hijacking other threads (and apologizing for it)?
Should I be worried aout it? Anyway the reason I came in here again was because I need to see if a website works. I am building a flash website and it started working at first, but then everything stopped showing up and I just get a white screen and it never finishes loading. NOTE: You must have micromedia flash player. Please remove this forums once its been checked. THANKS! I still gotta finish the website and buy a domain so please do not navigate around the site. You may need to enable the stuff it could automatically block by clicking on the lil bar that says "certain things have been blocked..." at the top of the website.
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Topic spilt from other thread in this forum. Why not post a new topic instead of hijacking other threads (and apologizing for it)?
Should I be worried aout it? Anyway the reason I came in here again was because I need to see if a website works. I am building a flash website and it started working at first, but then everything stopped showing up and I just get a white screen and it never finishes loading. NOTE: You must have micromedia flash player. Please remove this forums once its been checked. THANKS! I still gotta finish the website and buy a domain so please do not navigate around the site. You may need to enable the stuff it could automatically block by clicking on the lil bar that says "certain things have been blocked..." at the top of the website.
www.freewebs.com/thevirtualbluelancers
Video Card and Graphics cards are the same. The only reason I would guess that your integrated graphics card didnt not play Lomac is that it was simply not capable. Integrated graphics cards are simply there to give you something on the screen, not high end game graphics.
Something else that might have confused you would probably be the TV tuners integrated into graphics cards. An example of such graphics card would be the ATI all-in-wonder graphics cards. They can simply make your computer a TV ! (please correct me if I'm wrong)
About your system, well, it sounds pretty nice, and to be honeset with you, it wont be out dated anytime soon. Only two things that I could argue on are, first your sound card, and second your graphics card. Many soundcards make some hissing and beeping noises... background noice! They do this for example when you move your mouse or your computer's thinking and stuff. I say pay some 50-60 bucks and get an Audigy 2 card, or if you have more money get the newer X-FI card. Also about your graphics card, I would say you go with the 850, since its the highest in ATI list in the market and has the [SLI version of ATI cards] that symply lets you run 2 850 cards at the same time. Even better I would go with an Nvidia 7800GTX. Now remember I said GTX, not GT. 7800GTX is even faster than x850 since it has 24 pipelines instead of 16 that X850 has; other than that, everything else is similar between those two video cards. Then your system is verymuch like mine, exept my m-board is the A8N Fatality and I'm running a 4200X2.
Hope you enjoy your new computer cause you're up for a wild ride for quite a while
!!!
Vala
Something else that might have confused you would probably be the TV tuners integrated into graphics cards. An example of such graphics card would be the ATI all-in-wonder graphics cards. They can simply make your computer a TV ! (please correct me if I'm wrong)
About your system, well, it sounds pretty nice, and to be honeset with you, it wont be out dated anytime soon. Only two things that I could argue on are, first your sound card, and second your graphics card. Many soundcards make some hissing and beeping noises... background noice! They do this for example when you move your mouse or your computer's thinking and stuff. I say pay some 50-60 bucks and get an Audigy 2 card, or if you have more money get the newer X-FI card. Also about your graphics card, I would say you go with the 850, since its the highest in ATI list in the market and has the [SLI version of ATI cards] that symply lets you run 2 850 cards at the same time. Even better I would go with an Nvidia 7800GTX. Now remember I said GTX, not GT. 7800GTX is even faster than x850 since it has 24 pipelines instead of 16 that X850 has; other than that, everything else is similar between those two video cards. Then your system is verymuch like mine, exept my m-board is the A8N Fatality and I'm running a 4200X2.
Hope you enjoy your new computer cause you're up for a wild ride for quite a while
!!!Vala
