9800 Pro All-in-Wonder, plus a few other questions

[Venadium]

I'm in the early stages of upgrading my PC, again. Since I now have a job,
live at home, and therefore have no bills to pay (yet), I can finally afford
to purchase hardware that is top-of-the-line now, not 6 months - 1 year ago.
One of the things I'll definately be buying is the 9800 Pro. While shopping
around, I noticed the 9800 Pro All-in-Wonder is generally less than $10 more
than the 9800 Pro. I do a small amount of video editing, and my old WinTV
card is starting to show its age. Would it be worth it to get the
All-in-Wonder? Will it perform exactly as well as a 9800 Pro, with the added
VIVO features? The card I am looking to purchase (9800 Pro All-in-Wonder
128MB) is manufactured by Sapphire.

Also, I have a question about dual-displays. Currently I am using 2
monitors, the primary display driven by a GeForce4 Ti4200, the secondary
display by a GeForce2MX. Will I run into issues with conficting drivers by
having the 9800 Pro and GeForce2 running simultaneously? Or would it be
easier to just purchase an older ATI card to replace the older GeForce card?

Thanks in advance for any help or advice you can offer.

 

[Guess Who]

If you live at home and have a job, you should worry about paying your
parents rent before you worry about buying a top of the line computer.
Learn responsibility, it makes you much happier in the long run.

 

[Todd Howard]

Careful, the soapbox is unsteady.....
geesh, does it affect you in ANY way how the guy spends his money....?
TH

 

[J.Clarke]

If you live at home and have a job, you should worry about paying your
parents rent before you worry about buying a top of the line computer.
Learn responsibility, it makes you much happier in the long run.

Why should he pay his parents rent if they haven't asked him to? Seems
to me that that's their business and not yours.

 

[J.Clarke]

seems a lot of ppl in here who don't wanna pay rent

Seems to me that a lot of people want to tell this guy to tell his
parents how to raise him. If his parents want him to pay them
rent I'm sure they'll tell him. For all you know his day job could be
paramedic, police officer, or some other occupation in which he gets
more"responsibility" than most people can handle. And for all you know
he could be living in a 50 room mansion on which an appropriate "rent"
would rival the gross national product of some third-world countries.

Never ceases to amaze me how many people are so sure that they have
discovered the One And Only Good, Right, And True Way, and get snotty
when someone suggests that maybe that might not work for everybody.

It's his money, it's his business what he does with it. It's his
parents' house, it's their business what they do with it.

Personally my house is paid for and I've got no kids living at home so
it's no skin off my butt one way or the other.

 

[Manu T]

seems a lot of ppl in here who don't wanna pay rent

 

[bob cox]

What "it" is to me is irrelevant. This group does not exist to
discuss the merits of each others' ownership of expensive computer
gear...



plus paying rent is so uneconomical. He should put off moving out
until he can get a mortgage.

seems a lot of ppl in here who don't wanna pay rent

Seems to me that a lot of people want to tell this guy to tell his
parents how to raise him. If his parents want him to pay them
rent I'm sure they'll tell him. For all you know his day job could be
paramedic, police officer, or some other occupation in which he gets
more"responsibility" than most people can handle. And for all you know
he could be living in a 50 room mansion on which an appropriate "rent"
would rival the gross national product of some third-world countries.

Never ceases to amaze me how many people are so sure that they have
discovered the One And Only Good, Right, And True Way, and get snotty
when someone suggests that maybe that might not work for everybody.

It's his money, it's his business what he does with it. It's his
parents' house, it's their business what they do with it.

Personally my house is paid for and I've got no kids living at home so
it's no skin off my butt one way or the other.

 

[J.Clarke]

What "it" is to me is irrelevant. This group does not exist to
discuss the merits of each others' ownership of expensive computer
gear...



plus paying rent is so uneconomical. He should put off moving out
until he can get a mortgage.

Depends--if he can earn more on his money than the mortgage rate then it
makes sense, otherwise he should wait until he can pay cash. Or until
he inherits the house.