Nano 8GB or ATI1950 AGP card?

andyroberts · 2 Dec 2006 at 10:24

Okay I cant decide what to buy:

Nano 8GB - I have a 1GB shuffle but my whole music collection all 70GB's is in the Apple Lossless file type which the shuffle cannot play, so I have to convert everything that I want on my shuffle to 128 kbps, a pain in the butt!

ATI1950 AGP graphics card - I have a Gainward 7800 GS AGP which is a great card but I cant play AOE3 for more than 10-20 mins without it crashing with a NV4_disp.dll error, damn annoying! (before anyone mentions it no I cant afford a £1000 upgrade to PCIe, although I appreciate it would be the best solution if money were no object)

I would like to hear your comments, suggestions.

Thanks

Andy

ca9phoenix · 2 Dec 2006 at 10:26

what do you do more play on your pc or listen to music, the answer to that question should answer your own.

Slackworth · 2 Dec 2006 at 10:34

As the graphics is just a driver error, why not just sort it out and just buy the Nano. A 7800GS is a very capable card.

vincent1989 · 2 Dec 2006 at 10:35

ca9phoenix said:
what do you do more play on your pc or listen to music, the answer to that question should answer your own.

depends what he likes more

when i was on an x300 integrated chip i could have bought a new graphics card, but i valued music more, so i paid for a 2gb nano

when it was the price of a 4gb one now

and then bought a new graphics card 2 months ago, i think it was worth the wait, as i was able to pick up a x1900xt for cheap

, and even though my graphics were intergrated, they were 'enough' to play most new games

hp7909 · 2 Dec 2006 at 10:45

andyroberts said:
{snip}before anyone mentions it no I cant afford a £1000 upgrade to PCIe, although I appreciate it would be the best solution if money were no object{snip}

Not necessarily

The 7800GS is a very capable card. Have you tried looking-into what is causing the error, maybe driver/windows/etc reinstall?

Alternative is to sell the GFX to fund both

andyroberts · 2 Dec 2006 at 11:50

hp7909 said:
Not necessarily

The 7800GS is a very capable card. Have you tried looking-into what is causing the error, maybe driver/windows/etc reinstall?

Yeah the problem seems quite common for Nvidia cards, tried many different driver releases but none of them fix it, both nvidia and microsoft are aware of the probelm but no one is doing anything about it, they are probably blaming each other!!

Nomisf · 2 Dec 2006 at 13:13

andyroberts said:
Yeah the problem seems quite common for Nvidia cards, tried many different driver releases but none of them fix it, both nvidia and microsoft are aware of the probelm but no one is doing anything about it, they are probably blaming each other!!

You best bet is to download one of these new fangled tools that cleans EVERY graphics driver, then just re-install the newest forceware. That grpahics card is fairly good, just seems that the DLL is having issues , which is the most common problem with Nvidia drivers these days.

Regards,

Nomisf