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new G Card - suggestions please?

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i am getting rid of my old aiw 128 16mb and thinking of buying a new card to last me a while (2 yrs)

i am thinking of either 64Mb ASUS V7700 Ge-Force-II DDR or the matrox millennium G450

i heard that the matrox one has tv cap abilities with mjpeg, does the ge force? since i capture a lot i would like high quality, at least 720x576, but avi not mpeg-2 which is not good enough (in my opinion, i cap to huffyuv not mpeg2 which my aiw supports)

i saw two matrox cards and was wondering what the diff between the two were:

16Mb Matrox G400/TV Marvel Mjpeg Edit/Video Conference etc AGP 179.00 210.33

Martox G450 ETV Video capture system Retail Box Version 179.00 210.33

prices in £ UK

any suggestions on which one, matrox or asus, is better for my needs?

thanks.

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From what I hear ATI's Radeon is better suited for what you're looking at.

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Reply to igottaknife

but the radeon only does mpeg-2 encoding, which i can get with my aiw. the matrox's card has hardware mjpeg encoding which is much better, and i have like 200gb's of hard disk space so the extra space is no big deal. in fact, considering that mjpeg compresses better than huffyuv, i'll save some space over what i am doing now.

Reply to mrtj

The Matrox is better equipped to handle video capture but it sucks for 3D games. The GeForce is great for games (and it has capture abilities - it's ok for TV time-shifting, etc. but that isn't it's forte). Take your pick. I own one of each and they both have their own jobs to do...

Reply to Anonymous

i want it for the capturing capabilities. as long as it can play quake 3 and vampires and deus ex i dont really care about the 3d stuff.

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