ATI HD 4350 or Nvidia GeForce 210?

I'm looking at some budget cards, and these are going for about the same price right now.

I do plan on gaming with them, but the games I play are fairly old C&C Generals, Warcraft III, Morrowind. It's what I like

I'm trying to get a card so I can play Oblivion, and do small scale video editing for portable media players.


PNY - NVIDIA GeForce 210 512MB DDR2 PCI Express Graphics Card
Model: VCGG2105XPB
512MB DDR2 memory; PCI Express interface; 400MHz clock speed



XFX - ATI Radeon HD 4350 1GB DDR2 PCI Express Graphics Card
Model: HD-435X-ZAH2
1GB DDR2 memory; PCI Express interface; S-video output; 800MHz clock speed



I was reading the 210 has more support for Open GL, but I don't really use Open GL. I was trying to find out how many pipelines the 210 has, but nvidia's site only mentions CUDA cores are those the pipelines for nvidia cards?

From the selected specs it seems the ATI card is the best, but what worries me is its lower level of support for certain features than the nvidia 210.

They are both consider basic dedicated cards. Both are recommended for HD support and basic office computing.

Yes, either is fine for non-gaming purposes so just go with the cheaper card. If you are gaming those certainly aren't the cards you should be looking at.

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2491.html

Here's the "winners" from THG's latest (December) GFX Roundup
Best Graphics Cards For The Money: December '09


$50 - HD 4650
$65 - HD 4670 / 9600 GSO
$85 - 9600 GT
$95 - 9600 GT / HD 4830
$110 - GTS 250 512 MB
$120 - GTS 250 1 GB
$155 - HD 5770 / GTX 260
$200 - HD 4890
$240 - 2 x GTS 250
$310 - No winner (HD 5850 Honorable Mention)
$330 - 2 x GTX 260 / 2 x HD 5770
$400 - 2 x HD 4890
$410 - No winner (HD 5870 Honorable Mention)
$465 - No winner (GTX 295 Honorable Mention)
$625 - No winner (HD 5970 Honorable Mention)

He's been going around spamming all the graphics card's threads with that list, instead of actually reading what the discussion is about.

I'm picking these cards since I have a power supply that's maybe 300w, and I don't think they need an external power connector, and they consume low power.

I was think about the HD4350, and I found a chart that compared video cards for Oblivion http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion: [...] o_Chipsets

Ah, I got a gift card to Best Buy so I'm looking through BestBuy's inventory right now

If I find a good deal on another site I'll consider the other recommendations, but Best Buy only has a HD4650, and the 4350.

I'll probably wait a bit too since the shelves are probably bare right now. Pfft shipping

Hello:
May I ask another question, please:
My mainboard is Asus M2N-MX: nVidia Chipset.
Therefore, I wonder whether it is suitable if I use 4650 which is made of ATI chipset！

Thank you very much!

i used to have a shtty 7100gs 128mb and it ran fine.