} } If you're not playing games and you don't need to drive a giant screen, } your current card seems like plenty. That said, if I was going to buy a } new card and placed some value on bang/buck, I'd probably stick with } something like the Nvidia 6800GT-based products. They come in 256mb } flavors and don't cost an arm and a leg. } thanks for the info my main screen is a 20.1 viewsonic lcd and i drive it at 1280x960 right now my concern is that using a pentium 4 3.0 gig workstation machine that i can drive the video *hard and fast* in apps high res and full motion video etc i know you are an expert in the field so any help is appreciated. i skipped about 10 years of the newer bigger better sound and video card every week baloney till now and im ready to jump in for business reasons. mainly... i like quality media too! ;-> will a 256 meg card like you recommended help in developing and using a CentOS streaming video server and it's client nachines etc? anything else to look out for on the positive or not so positive sides? thanks in advance and kind regards, - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net