Graphics card for office work

[RobTi]

Hi all
Buiding a computer for a small office\showroom and i am looking for some help with the graphics.
It will be running xp pro with office 2003 as the main but nothing else to demanding.
I have a geforce 4ti 4800se and a geforce2 mx would any of these do?
Thanks
Robert

[menthel]

Built in if you have it on the board, if not the cheapest possible, surely.

[exAndrzej]

...help...

Either of these will be fine unless you actually want to play a game or watch a decent quality film

In which case Menthel's suggestion is perfect - pick yourself up an Xpress 200 mainboard (AMD or Intel) with DX9 graphics built in...

...but you do have more than enough 'grunt' with the 4800

[RobTi]

Thanks for the help people
I have an Abit AT7 Max2 board that i will be using so no on board so will pop one of the above in
Thanks
Robert

[999tigger]

Either of those cards is fine and the 4800 overkill. The best way it to try and see before you go out buying a new card. Note once you start upgrading then its hard to upgrade little bits as everything has to work with your motherboard.

[maverick77_uk]

Hiya,

As already stated, for 2D office apps ANY card is fine. In fact, I blew my card at work but chucked in a 1MB PCI cirrus Logic card from a 486 - still does Word fine in XP. With the current generation of Windows (upto and including XP) is still runs purely off 2D for office apps, so there is absolutely no need for ANY 3D power for email and surfing the web. As of the next Windows generation, (Longhorn? but don't quote me on that name!) it will need the card to be Direct3D compatible, although I hear there will still be an optional 2D Graphic User Interface (GUI).

See ya!