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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 02 2004 - 09:55:55 CST

Hi,
  From my point of view the right choice is to get one of the
new GeForce 6 series cards. I'd go for a 6800GT personally, but
an LE would probably work pretty well too. My reasoning in saying
this is that these cards are much more capable in terms of
programmable shading than the older generation cards are, and
though this feature is still in its infancy within VMD, I fully
expect that it will start to become mature and people will begin
using it seriously within VMD in the next 6 months. You'll want
a GeForce 6 series board in order to use this feature to maximal
effect... :-)

  John

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:27:08AM +0100, Eric Hajjar wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
> we re at the point to buy new graphic cards, mostly to be able to enjoy
> more the power of VMD ...
> We hesitate between Geforce FX 5700 256mb and a 6800LE 128mb.
> ( Surprinsingly both are at the same price, with the first one having
> 128mb more !)
>
>
> First we would like to know if
> someone is aware of problems with Geforce 5th and 6th generation. Second,
> we have read that the 6800,
> although it has only 128Mb, performs better for games (namely Doom). Would
> it be true also for vmd?
>
>
>
> --
> Eric Hajjar
> Phd Student @University of Bergen
> Computational Biology Unit
> Molecular Modeling Group
> BCCS/UNIFOB, Bergen, NORWAY
> mail:ericha_at_ii.uib.no
> tel:(+47)55584029 

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