"Arnold Packer" <aapacker DeleteThis @verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Gentlemen,
>
> I am assembling a PC for a Visually Impaired person and need to select
> an ATI or a NVIDIA video card for best text display.
>
> A LCD monitor will be used set at 800 x 600 for optimum legibility in
> this situation. In this setup what would be an ideal amount of memory
> on the card ..128 or 256 Megs?
You will only need that much graphics card RAM for running games. Like
someone else said, you would only need about 2MB of graphics card RAM to run
windows. You didn't mention operating system, but Windows Vista benefits
from a more powerful graphics card, but anything recent will be powerful
enough.
If the PC is not for games, then on-board graphics (built into a
motherboard) will be fine and can be configured to take just 2MB of system
RAM.
As someone else pointed out an LCD monitor will be clearest at the native
resolution. To get bigger text, you should change the visual options in
windows. Right click on the desktop and choose Properties. On the Appearance
tab, you will find settings to make text and boxes bigger. This means the
font size is increased, but the screen resolution is left alone, so the
screen pixels will be sharp and the text will be clearer than running
'normal' font sizes at 800x600.
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